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My first intentional kill

Attention!

Don't hunt them in a corner of a room in order to kill them with a shovel!

If they don't find a way out, they will attack you! They really can bite, and they know it.
 
We've got a lethal moggy who has done a couple rats in, good going for a cat. He looks like butter wouldn't melt too.....

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Top boy in our house, the dugs are wary of him. :lol:
 
As you can see from the first view, rats are much friendlier than cats and more cute!
 
Yes, terriers are quiet good to hunt rats.

My brother had a specialist.
It was a Bull Terrier mix.
The dog was far better than the cat.
 
Now we have an Australian shepherd.

He watches the wild rats with interest.

But so long they stay where they belong to in his opinion, he doesn't do anything.
 
Ark79 said:
She’s a mixed breed erbs.... westy and a rocket....she’s wired up all the wrong ways.. buggsy with a deva attitude lol
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Can't say for sure if they picked it up from the cat but our dugs used to be fascinated with the cat playing with a mouse now they're into mousing themselves. They're a pair of Flat Coats so not really built for it but will root out any mice in the fields. Would imagine they would be the same with rats.
 
If they hunt mice they do it from alone.

But should they really play with the dead mice, they surely picked it up from the cat.

If the cat is older than the dog, it had a function of an aunt or uncle. And they copy the behaviour. It's the same in the other direction and even stronger.
Cats who grew up with dogs really behave a bit like dogs.

My rats started in the end to eat out of only one hand, like I eat my bread. That was absolutely fascinating to me. Even that small guys are quiet similar to us and copy human behaviour. After a while they lie on the back, like we do it on a sofa. No young domesticated or wild rat does it. But old domesticated rats see us, try it out and discover that it is very comfortable and so they copy the behaviour.
In the end the rat lies around at the sofa when I do it, eats his bread with one hand when I do it, sleeps in my sleeping bag when I do it.
Everybody knows this from dogs, but most mammals copy as much as they can.

The more I know different species very well the less I believe in big differences between us and them. Goat and sheep are quiet similar to us too. Even parrots and crows!
 
I guess, after he have seen the last video he currently is surching for a proper WW2 Mitrailleuse.
 
Nope it appears this one is bit on the smart side, we do have a mouse problem here as well and about a week ago a trap was set off and left a small blood trail, which i think now that might be my rat (now named Roland) i think he has got the traps sussed!!. Also my original thought of where he might be coming in might not be correct, keep finding bits of food stored here and there as well carrot colored dropping!!

New plan of attack needed before he moves the family in
 
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I think he will move in with pleasure, and if you put it in a corner of your property, you just add a nice little garden fence around it, a small hammock between two flowers too, and everything is fine.
 
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