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Why not feral cats? Considerably more pleasant than rats. Or like teams of trained dogs.
by colechristensen 4y ago
Why not feral cats? Considerably more pleasant than rats.
Or like teams of trained dogs.
- dymk 4y agoCats kill everything, not just rats Ratting dogs are certainly a thing, but it’s probably unsafe to release a bunch of dogs into the sewers.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoYeah the dogs will die and then it’ll be an outrage. I’ve seen them work on a field but the sewers and subway tunnels etc. are very hazardous and dark
- theshrike79 4y agoIf you have a mouse, get a cat. If your problem is hundreds of mice, get terriers. They just kill and move on, they don't play with the mouse or eat it. https://youtu.be/l2Pyu-Cj0gg https://youtu.be/l2Pyu-Cj0gg
- moralestapia 4y agoWhoa very ... interesting video. Makes one feel fascinated and troubled at the same time.
- gerdesj 4y agoI suggest Jack Russells with some Yorkies for the bigger ones. If you have some lions causing trouble then a few of your Border Terriers is indicated along with a pack of Rodesians.
- tzs 4y agoThere were a lot of rats in that fairly small area of that large field in which they were digging. Were they digging in some specific place they knew would have an especially high rat concentration (a nesting area perhaps?) or is the whole large field that dense with rats and that's just where they happened to be working at the moment?
- jimmaswell 4y agoMy parents' poor excuse for a terrier just sat there and stared at mice taking its food away at night. Mini fox terrier instead of rat terrier though. Maybe they're just only interested in foxes.
- jelliclesfarm 4y agoWe have gophers in our field. There is one single feral cat in my farm that’s is rather good at catching the gophers. Chihuahuas too do a great job. We set up some owl shelters and raptor poles. Snakes, cats, raptors are all predators. All of them unavailable in cities where rats don’t just survive, they thrive! Gophers are a big problem. As it’s an organic farm, pest control options are limited. A few years ago, someone came to test their sonic gopher eradication system. Using sound waves. I don’t know if that would work for other rodents. Squirrels are just rats with a bushier prettier tail. We love squirrels. Weird.
- anikom15 4y agoWhat about alligators?
- angelbar 4y agoooh, the memories !
- JackFr 4y agoNot if you’ve heard a literal cat fight at 3 AM.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoRaccoons make cats sound like angels.
- woodruffw 4y agoN=1, but my neighborhood in NYC has both feral cats and rats. Maybe not as many rats as other neighborhoods in the area, but enough that it doesn’t seem to be a real solution. (There are other issues as well, like the cats destroying local bird populations and getting sick when they kill poisoned rats.)
- Spooky23 4y agoCats are a pest too as they slaughter birds.
- jalapenos 4y agoAn ordinary house cat won't usually hunt rats, because they're too big. They hunt mice. A bobcat on the otherhand... Depends how much you want to replace one animal with another.
- lukas099 4y agoCats are one of the worst invasive species there is, unfortunately.