Dogs with a natural ratting instinct

North of the Smoke

North of the Smoke

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Has anyone got any experience with ratters? (and do they take mice)

I know terriers in general have a good prey drive, any suggestions for a dog that will get stuck into rodents, and do they kill them or eat them?

Daft question maybe, but do they just break their neck or scoff them as well?

Know nothing about cats btw, but if needs be will get a ferret.

Thanks
 


North of the Smoke said:
Has anyone got any experience with ratters? (and do they take mice)

I know terriers in general have a good prey drive, any suggestions for a dog that will get stuck into rodents, and do they kill them or eat them?

Daft question maybe, but do they just break their neck or scoff them as well?

Know nothing about cats btw, but if needs be will get a ferret.

Thanks
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IF it’s rattling then oil it ! Oh ratting ,sorry bout that !
 
Jack Russells, Kings of the Terrier World.
Don’t normally eat Rats, they’re too busy hunting for the next one to dispatch.

A lot of breeds under the heading of terriers are not true terriers at all and the result of mixed breeding and a waste of time as far as ratting is concerned.
 
There's actually a breed called a Rat Terrier. Named that for a reason. Looks like a Jack Russell (which, as already mentioned will do the job). Most small terriers are decent ratters, I think. Also, dachshunds.

An alternative would be a trained bird of prey.
 
Arkle said:
There's actually a breed called a Rat Terrier. Named that for a reason. Looks like a Jack Russell (which, as already mentioned will do the job). Most small terriers are decent ratters, I think. Also, dachshunds.

An alternative would be a trained bird of prey.
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Swoop lads, swoooooooooooooop

Thanks all.
 
Lammi said:
Bedlington terriers
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End of thread. No self respecting north east eastener should have anything else.

Never checked it for accuracy but was always told they used to have a world ratting championship and a bedlington would finish first, second and third every year

lenshack said:
A good one will kill a rat instantly, hoy it in the air over its shoulder and has killed the next one almost before the first one hits the ground.
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Exactly what my bedlington did tonight when I let him out for a piss and the bin shed was left open
 
cornish mackem said:

Don't get a brown wire haired fox terrier 4:30 is
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GOD that brings back so many memories of my childhood, except x10 when the timbers at the bottom of the old type haystacks were lifted (don't get that any more). Fastening the bottoms of our trousers before we went into battle. Like the kid on there with the broom shank, only with a six inch nail through it to get the ones the dogs missed. Mad.

Having said that I've got a soft as shite Jack Russell now who'd run away from a rat because he's never been socialised with it. He's still got the instinct to rive things but he completely wouldn't deal with that situation.
 

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