Washington is full of rats. These dogs are happy to help with that.

The Washington Post ^ | 9-13-23 | Maura Judkis and Jabin Botsford

[AirForceVet1988]

On certain nights, behind some of your favorite restaurants, roving groups of dog owners set their posse of pooches loose on urban rodents.

The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a stuffed squeaky toy makes.

It seems so obvious. Of course the toys sound that way, because that sound awakens something deep in a docile dog’s neurons that says: Shake it. Shake it till it’s dead.

It’s Saturday night. Flavia and Jigs, a duo of mother-daughter border terriers, are shaking a rat. It is already dead. On one side of the alley wall in a tony part of Northwest Washington, young people are drinking espresso martinis. On the other, a rogue group of dog owners is taking the city’s rat problem into their own hands, and their dogs’ mouths.

[AirForceVet1988]

Misleading headline ? Maybe, maybe not. 😁

[algore]

I was hoping the Hounds of Hell would take care of them all.

I would do a ppv to see the Hell Hounds vs giant geriatric rats and rinos. In fact any political animal

[allendale]

The Border Terriers. Great name for Trump’s goon squad that will deal with the Democrats who persecuted him.

[Mariner]

A single Terrier can kill 100 rats in 24 hours.

A Feist or Rat Terrier can earn their keep.

Far more effective than cats who get bored with the killing.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Boy, if you’ve ever seen any dog-ratting videos on YouTube, you may start to have some sympathy for the rats. The dogs are just incredible ratters. Super fast, the rats do not escape.

[UnBubba]

Blood lust!

Great post!

[Brandonmark]

Washington is full of rats

Washington is full of DemoRATS

[Signalman]

I was thinking DemocRATS but DemoRATS also works.

[LadyDoc]

make sure your dog is vaccinated against leptospirosis if you have rats in your area.

https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-leptospirosis-and-how-can-it-harm-us-and-our-pets-120221

[vetvetdoug]

Memphis, Tennessee, in some neighborhoods have a real problem with Norwegian Rats. A colleague of mine had an ugly Chinese Crested that was meaner than a yankee woman that she would put into the attics of her neighbor's homes and within minutes it would have killed many of them. That dog alone was responsible for eradicating the vermin in her neighborhood. Beat anything I ever saw...a fiest, Jack Russel, Rat Terrier or other breeds I would have expected but a Chinese Crested?

[FreedomPoster]

While I’ve never been around them, around rats, I’ve been around Boston terriers enough to know that the head shake of death is hardwired from birth in the breed, it is just something they do. Small mammals like rats or moles or chipmunks wouldn’t stand a chance.

[Drago]

Over 400 rats/mice per day with 1 mink & 3 dogs!:

https://youtu.be/48dlAlrGNj8?si=7ejscieF9Y3YqLZc

[Wdempsey]

Just what the corrupt and evil capitol needs ...a cat named Donald!

[Myrddin]

I have had Rat Terriers for years. They are very efficient against mice and rats. My mini Dachshund is no slouch either. She's very quick taking out mice and "Sky Raisins" aka black flies.

There are huge construction projects going on all around my area. It has driven the mice from there homes in the farmer's fields. Apartments are rising from the former food producing fields. The damn mice got into my house last Winter. I can hardly buy enough mouse traps. The cat, terriers and dachshund are happy to alert on a mouse whether free or glued to a trap.

[metmom]

Boy, if you’ve ever seen any dog-ratting videos on YouTube, you may start to have some sympathy for the rats.

Nope. Never.

[Rocco DiPippo]

The jokes make themselves!

[tired&retired]

The dogs are too small and they are attacking the wrong type of Rat!

[Melinda in TN]

I have two Mountain Feists. Rats tremble in fear. Of course, so do the squirrels, mice, moles, and rabbits. I have had to get her out of a tree going after a squirrel.

My best ratter.