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| Graham with Dotty's dead rat. |
Dotty the Rat Slayer is our
little cross breed dog. She is a very happy little thing who loves hunting for
the field mice that come into the garden shed looking for scraps in the guinea
pig den, the rabbit den and the duck and chicken coop. Also the shed where much
of the chicken feed is kept seems to attract the smaller rodents.
With even had a couple of rats
come too, but they are easy to spot, because Dotty knows straight away where
they are and where they burrow. It is always under the chicken coop.
We do the hose and as the horrid
rodent zooms out Dotty pounces like a blur. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Burrow hole filling with water – a rat zooms out in the blink of an eye –
within that blink of an eye Dotty has the rat dead as she shakes it with her
jaws.
The big problem is to get her to
let her prize go. We have to say, “Dead Dotty. Let go now.”
She does, but reluctantly.
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