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sons of bitches got into my woodshed and ate all my wheatgrass seeds. decimated the whole 20 lb bag! I heard one scampering around this morning when I was getting some wood for the fire and I was immediately familiar with the sound because I used to live in an area where rats were an unavoidable. So I immediately start kicking and flailing around trying to kill the bastard but he bugged out. so I grabbed some wood and there were rat terd everywhere, and also larger terds that reminded me of my friend who had a ferret a long time ago. my worthless pitbull will run off a 700 lb brown bear, but she was crawling low to the ground and whimpering when I tried to send her into the shed to get em. So I was messing around the garage and I heard some more scampering and rustling. god damn 6 baby rats were living in my bag of lawn seed. son of a bitch! this all happened overnight it seems. if they get into my pantry and eat my rice, Im going to be pissed.

Anyways, Im looking at these cute baby rats too scared to run away and I didnt have the heart to kill a baby rat. a big rat I will stomp on all damn day, but a baby rat is too cute. I had a chiwawa a while back that was a natural rat murdering machine, and I have a 1 year old chiwawa pup. so I grabbed lil buster and was like "ok, youre up" and put him down where I saw the rats running. little dog was scared out of his ass cause he thought I was mad at him.

anyways, I left the pantry open so if the dogs hear any intruders, they can get in there and rip some rat ass, but I now doubt their will and resolve.

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A pitbull is no defense against rodents. You need a good terrier for that. I had one that would put a shep on it's heels. vicious bitch. Absolutely no good with kids, and hated just about everyone.

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My chihuahua is the ultimate rodent killing machine with over 100 confirmed kills.

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Cats?

They did wonders for the mice & chipmunks. Not sure if they'd work for rats though.

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In all of the animal kingdom, there is one creature which puts unending fear in the hearts of rats; a creature that is ferocious, yet cute. For as with Yoda, judge this creature by its size at your own peril. You need the miniature schnauzer!

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It's cute when a man has the same haircut as his dog.

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We store chicken and dog food in large metal trash cans. They are relatively inexpensive, last forever, and are completely rodent proof.

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Interesting observation....I hadn't noticed.:bear_w00t:

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LMAO thats one way to put it!

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Jack Russells are pretty incredible ratters also.

I had one a while back who was infamous for suicidal bravery.

I was living out in the country and one Saturday morning

Heard one hell of racket and went running outside to

See Nicky - the JR - latched onto the hind leg of a big

German shepherd. The Shep was whirling in circles, screaming,

And Nicky was stretched out like a flag, and wasn't letting go.

Finally the whole shebang crashed hard into the woodpile,

And the Shep left the scene at high velocity.

Nicky was also the one who killed a 3 point Pacific Blacktail deer.

Ran him into the hogfence around my garden, deer broke its neck.

Tried to get 'ol Nick off the kill, but he wasn't having any of it.

So I went and got a salmon landing net and captured Nick in the

Net. You have never heard such bad dog language in your life!

Put him into the garage, still in the net, to sleep it off.

Next morning carefully opened man-door, found net chewed to shreds.

Nick didn't talk to me for a week...........

scyth

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scyth, that's the funniest terrier story ever! You can't beat terriers for varmint hunting. I have a terrier mix that's fearless and unrelenting on the hunt.

I fostered an Akita/Husky mix once that was as fast as lightening at grabbing and dispatching rodents, too. We came around a wall once, and just as I registered a blur at our feet, the dog snatched up the rat, shook it once, dropped it dead at his feet, and then nonchalantly continued on with his walk like nothing had happened.

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Tiny was a little 13 pound rat terrier that wandered into our yard with a broken front leg when I was a kid. Leg never set straight but we had that fearless little bugger for 13 years. Best squirrel dog I ever saw. Always had the right tree as he would follow them through the woods by eye after he had them treed. I remember days of a dozen plus killed squirrels, that he would finish in the wink of an eye once on the ground. His head and ears were mangled by the coons and woodchucks he had tangled with and often killed too. Was never the same though after he got carried out of our yard by a 160 pound St Bernard he went after when he was twelve.

Oh, I forgot about all the rattlers he killed.

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Oh God -

Got the memory banks humming tonight.

I apologize up front, but my head is going to a general dog thread.

We moved to St. Paul Minnesota when I was 13.

Lived on Goodrich Avenue.

Well, like most 13 year olds, I made my living by mowing lawns,

And I had our block, and a couple others, nailed down.

This was in the days of the rotary push mower; no engines.

And what put me to mind of this is our next door neighbors

Had this great huge goofy St. Bernard name of Cleopatra.

But Cleopatra isn't the star of this story.

Sammy and Beau are.

Sammy was a white toy poodle owned by a pair

Of quite elderly ladies right across the street,

Who had a full wardrobe of tartan doggie coats for him

And walked him every day.

They had old money. It showed bigtime in the lawn mowing cash.

Beau was a big white standard poodle up at the end

Of the block, behind a wrought iron fence surrounding a big yard.

Anyway, when the ladies walked Sammy he

Would curse Beau and tell him what he would do to him

If he ever got the chance.

Well, one day it went down.

Sammy slipped his collar, and

Greased through the wrought iron fence.

Beau picked him up and threw him right back over

The top of the fence.

No harm, no foul, right?

Wrong.

Beau had picked him up by the testicles,

And in throwing him over the fence,

Had separated Sammy from his testicles.

So, a week or so later, front line first page news

In the St. Paul newspaper was the big $$ lawsuit

About Beau "depriving Sammy of his manhood."

I'll never forget that phrase.............

scyth

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If we are talking terriers, I was hunting wild pigs with a couple of dogs, Huntaway and a Rhodesian Ridgeback Staffie cross, with a mate who had bought his little miniature Foxy bitch along. My two dogs latched onto a big boar that they couldn't stop, it ran straight over a waterfall with both dogs attached. We finally caught up with the dogs and pig in a stony creek bed where the pig had backed up into a couple of boulders protecting his back. The pig was really pissed and full of fight, my Huntaway had a bit of a rip on his shoulder from getting too close while trying to get behind the pig to grab him by the back leg. If he could get the back leg the Staffie cross would grab the pig by the side of the head and it would be all over. Not today though. it was a stand off. This big boar eye balling the dogs, chomping his tusks on his grinders, bristling with fury and two tough experienced pig dogs not game to have a go at him. My mate let his little foxy go, she was behind the pig and latched on to one of his stones in a flash. The boar sat down and the foxy had to let go or be crushed. As soon as the foxy let go the pig stood up again and the foxy latched on once more the pig sat down squealling to wake the dead and the other two dogs had him. I had heard stories of stone crushing holders but until then had never seen one. It was really amazing to see such bravery from a little dog.

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Jack Russells never give up.


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Doug has time and again destroyed stacks of firewood trying to get to pack rats. He forgets about eating, drinking, triple digit heat, cholla cactus -- everything except that damn rat. Smokey has to grab him and haul him into the house so he can pull the burrs out and let him rehydrate.

Then he's back at it again yanking out logs bigger than himself.

His biggest adventure was when a whole shitload of field mice got into the house down the chimney one night. We counted 21 killings before he finally got so tired he lost interest. He got the rest of 'em the next day.

"Move this damn shelf unit, smokey! There's a rat under it."


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"Move it or I'll move it!!!!"

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Ok -

One last shot, and then I'm done.

This is a downeast joke.

My godfather had a boatyard in Barnstable Harbor

His entire life.

If you said the word fiberglass he would spit on the ground

And walk away.

Anyway...........

Here we are in Massachusetts.

And we have a young guy who is a duckshooting fanatic.

There is also a local wizard who breeds the

Best retrievers you ever saw.

Young guy signs up, and it is a two year wait,

But finally gets his pup.

Spends the spring and summer training the pup,

On the ground, and the pup is a genius.

Finallee its duckhunting season.

So they go out for the first time.

Typical bonechilling Massachusetts seacoast marsh hunting.

A flight comes in and our laddie gets a double.

The pup bails out of the boat,

AND WALKS ACROSS THE WATER

Picks up the birds and brings them back.

Well, boy howdy.

Our mighty hunter picks up the pint of whiskey,

Looks at it, and, whatthehell, punches down another swig.

This went on all morning until the limit was filled, and then some.

So he thinks about it, come Monday morning,

And call up the local Reverend, who was also a major

Bird hunter, and invites him out for the next weekend.

And they go out.

Same deal. They both limit.

And there's the pup, walking on water

To retrieve the birds.

Reverend doesn't say a word.

Well, they're back in the truck, driving home,

And our hunter can't stand it any more.

He asks "Rev, what do you think of my dog?"

Rev pauses, then says,

"I think you should put that poor thing

Out of his misery,

Because it is obvious he can't swim."


scyth

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lol @ this thread.

my first chiwawa, dexter, was a rat killing macine. he would grab a rat by the head, and shake it 20 or 30 times like a maniac. game over. that rats compounding interest equation imploded. Then he would be back to his usual chiwawa antics. he was one of those chiwawas that would be sweet, but you could get him riled up pretty easily by making a claw out of your fingers and snapping at his mouth. My current chiwawa is just a little sweet heart though. he wont growl or play rough with you at all. Im really in shock at my pit (actually an american bulldog, but everyone calls her a pit) she literally had a huge bear running for its life, but she thinks rats are going to murder her or something.

How the hell did rats even get to Kodiak Island, I cant stop thinking about where these little shits came from. I guess Ill have to borrow my friends JRT and let him loose in the garage and shed.

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I feel your pain. I've been trapping alot of these suckers lately. Seems they have been feasting on the chicken feed and I have some pretty healthy rats. I also trapped 3 in the house in the past few days.

On a positive note, I've heard that rats are quite tasty so may play a positive role in SHTF survival. Not when they eat all your preps though.