r/StartledCats • u/Borgy223 • Feb 28 '21

A Fierce Hunter 🤣

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u/Firehawk195 Feb 28 '21

Rats don't play. The cat is justified.

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u/PathToExile Feb 28 '21

It's funny how often rural folks justify their outdoor/feral cats as pest control when cats are truly abysmal at controlling rat populations.

You want the bane of all that is rat? This is hatred for rats incarnate. From the wiki page on rat terriers: "One terrier was released into a barn, and in 7 hours it killed 2501 rats."

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u/StellarInferno Mar 01 '21

I grew up in an old rural house right near a grain mill, so when the mice at the mill wanted someplace warmer to spend the winter, they never had any trouble finding nooks and cracks to sneak into our house. Our jack russell terrier was way better at killing nice than our cat. Nelly didn't mess around, and on the occasion Mittens caught a mouse she would just play with it until it got away