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Posted by samclemens 10/22/2024

Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher (2013)(www.laphamsquarterly.org)
31 points | 6 comments
mkmk 10/23/2024|
If you have the stomach for it, it’s fascinating to watch terriers hunt for rats. What seem to be cute and charming family pets are actually perfectly bred hunters. It changes how you see them shake their toys, and you understand why so many dog toys have a distinctive squeak.

https://youtu.be/GO_xkUcVea8 (NYC)

https://youtu.be/5_qUdwfxBVQ (on a farm)

sdwr 10/23/2024||
Definitely morbidly fascinating! The efficiency, the scale of death, the way pack behavior maps effortlessly to hunting.
killingtime74 10/27/2024||
I have a terrier and have had to clean up in the after math....Although some are too fast for him to catch.
jihadjihad 10/23/2024||
While reading this I had the feeling that I had seen something very similar, but could not for the life of me remember what it was. It turned out to be one of the short films on Netflix that Wes Anderson did [0]. Each of them is worth a watch IMO.

0: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wes-anderson-netflix-...

scrlk 10/23/2024|
In more recent times, there's a Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of...
pjot 10/26/2024|

  > The Downing Street website describes Larry's duties as "greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences and testing antique furniture for napping quality". It says he is "contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house" and has told Downing Street that such a solution is still in the "tactical planning stage"
Larry the Cat is quite the diplomat!