They need to go visit Belmont and Aqueduct. They're being over run with rats and the feral cats aren't doing much (big shocker /sarcasm). I'm sure the racetracks wouldn't mind letting them go in every now and then and take care of the problem. I've been telling a friend of mine who works there that they need a pack of small terriers instead of feral cat colonies.
Yeras ago when we had Dobies, we had the city re-doing a big drainage canal about a 1/4 mile away from us. We were OVER RUN with vermin! We had a pretty big garden that year, but we'd look out and see rats on the tomato cages eating them. Finally we saw no hope for the garden anyway and Released The Hounds! Freya and Odin never had a better time in their lives! They'd run through the sweet potato vines and then WHOOP a rat would fly through the air dead. They cleaned 'em out in just a couple of days.
I had rats under my foundation for over 5 years. My previous dog couldn't keep them away. I hired an exterminator one year, but the rats were back the next spring. I got Sadie, and two days later the rats were gone for good. I think she only caught one, but the others got the idea.
A buddy I know is in a falconer club, and some of his cohorts hire out to clean out barns, warehouses, and the like. IMO, the hawks can't be near as efficient as a pack of terriers (basically one rat at a time).
GREAT videos! Brings back a ton of memories except I had to dig the critters out with a shovel. Mostly ground hog, raccoon, possum and fox. Rat hunting was usually on a hog farm and it got fast and furious.
When I get REALLY old I'll probably go back to the little bassids. Probably a Border again. LOVE them! 14 lb dog with the heart of a Lion.
The lady with the Harrier Hawk is Teddy Moritz. I've hunted with her (No hawk, dogs only) some yrs back and also have shown dogs under her in earth Dog Trials. She's been doing this for a very long time and is a member of one of the oldest earth dog clubs in the States. The New Jersey Bean Field Earth Dog club.
Duane, the terrier/hawk combo can be really efficient. the dog goes to ground and flushes the quarry. It doesn't take long for the hawk to realize how it works and will hoover over the dog while it works in the ground.
One of my son's rescue Dobermans (the female, of cours, ha-ha) surprised him by catching & dispatching a healthy squirrel in his backyard once, so now she wears BELLS on her collar when going for a pit-stop ... But his male rescue Rat Terrier can't even catch field mice out there -- Meanwhile, my Akita (also female, LOL, naturally) always makes "short shrift" of any rodent that gets into my house !!! Her never-fail Search & Destroy method is efficient, Humane and FAST.
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That is an excellent Dobie and an excellent Akita!
But my granddog Milo (Border Terrier) traps the mice in a humane trapdoor-type trap, and then he drives them to the forest at the edge of town and sets them free.
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