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My dog loves hunting rats. Why don't they just get some dogs?
by brndnmtthws 9y ago
My dog loves hunting rats. Why don't they just get some dogs?
- jdavis703 9y agoRodenticide is probably cheaper. Dogs have to be fed, watered and cared for.
- megaman22 9y agoOr cats. That seems to be the age-old solution to the problem. Barn cats are wildly efficient vermin murder machines.
- brndnmtthws 9y agoSome of the rats in NYC are quite big, I'm not sure cats would go for them.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoOh our old barn cat would come out of the barn door carrying a dead rat so large she couldn't hold it off the ground.
- barsonme 9y agoYeah, my cat's literally dug up moles before. I know NYC has mutant rats, but I'm sure it's not difficult to find a cat adventurous enough.
- walshemj 9y agoI have seen a junivile cat do the same she was hardly out of kittenhood and took a rat bigger than her.
- jessaustin 9y agoYeah, at the right age, a juvenile cat is a pound and a half of death, and it isn't shy about showing you. I think later on in their lives cats are a bit more secretive, especially about prey they want to eat.
- eric_h 9y agoIf you don't feed a cat much, it'll go after just about anything rodent-like that it thinks it can sink its teeth into. [Edit: also bird-like, which is why a number of eco-friendly people aren't too fond of free range domestic cats in many different parts of the world]
- saalweachter 9y agoOur old barncat just hunted the ratlings. Tenderer meat, you know.
- mmphosis 9y agoor some owls?
- hinkley 9y agoShould we tell him?
- maxxxxx 9y agoYou will need a lot of dogs. Rats can breed like crazy if they have enough food.