A noted 1851 examination of working-class life in London describes rat-catchers working the city’s streets with ferrets and terriers. More recently, a rat-catching dachshund got attention in ...

Serge Lozach yelled as his cairn terrier, Hudson, streaked down an alley after a fleeing rat. Unlike many of the other owners, Lozach doesn't breed or show dogs, but he has taken Hudson to several ...

Photos, Video: Rat Hunting In NYC With A Pack Of Dogs. By . Christopher Robbins. Published Apr 30, 2013. ... (terriers, mostly) to hunt and kill The Verminous Bucktoothed Riptide since 1995.

CENTREVILLE — On a beautiful autumn weekend, Oct. 28–30, about 75 dogs and their handlers gathered at Spring Cove Farm in Centreville for three days of Barn Hunt, one of ...

Catcher (L), a Bedlington Terrier, and Tanner (R), a Border Terrier, hunt for rats in a small park on New York City's Lower East Side July 25, 2014.

During the hunt, Reynold's terrier and the other volunteers' dogs track down the rats at various garbage cans and construction sites in the city. Then the dogs instinctively kill the rats.

Reynolds and his crew of rat-hunting dogs know they'll never rid the city of rats, but the exercise helps the group of Norfolk and other terriers to reconnect with their past and discover their ...

Indeed, rat terriers, which were a fixture on farms in the early 1900s, can reportedly cull 100 varmints in one day, ... Still, while hunting rats is not illegal in NYC, ...

WATERLOO — Katie Weihbrecht took off her dog Beykee’s leash and collar as the Labrador/Akita mix sniffed the air, already catching the scent of its prey.