Ratting With Terriers

[airedale]

 

[Doc]

Yuck! That place just has way too many rats.

[Cory]

I absolutely love these videos. Probably because I’m deathly afraid of rats. Only good rat is a dead rat!

[Four Seasons]

Cool how those little dogs have no fear even if the rat is almost as big as them. Nasty Rats!!!

[airedale]

I have messed around doing some ratting with Terriers and it is a lot of fun, I have never found them in the numbers that we see in the videos from Britain. The infestations on some of those farms is unreal. Those big rats do not go down without a fight, the Terriers get some nasty bites, a veteran ratting Terrier has plenty of scars.

Back in the day of town dumps, rats could be found in big numbers crawling through the garbage and rat hunting was common, I used my car's headlights to shoot them after dark.

Al

Edited March 12 by airedale

[airedale]

"Rex," a big Airedale I had some years ago was a pretty fair Ratter, no shaking was needed with this guy, he just put the chomp into them and that would be all she wrote. Below is a photo of him with a couple of rats we got out of our hay.

Al