Showing posts with label rats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rats. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2022

Plummer on the Rise of Mute Dogs

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A repost from 2005 Forty Years Onwards, By D. Brian Plummer I believe I have mentioned this before, but in the mid 1960's, Britain exp...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Curiosity Kills the Rat

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Rat hunting, 1850. One of the many diseases harboured by rats is toxoplasmosis . Toxoplasmosis is a major livestock disease and is ...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

The Last Rat Pit in New York

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I'm off to Brooklyn this morning, so it seems fitting to post a little terrier history from that Great City. The last rat pit in N...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

A History of NYC Rats (with Two Free Chapters)

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I will be in New York City tomorrow and for the next few days. In honor of that, let me offer up a free read from " Rats: Observ...
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Friday, June 23, 2017

Queen Victoria's Rat Pits

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A recycled post from blog, circa March, 2005. Between 1800 and 1900, the population of Great Britain grew from 10 million to 35 million ...
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Monday, January 30, 2017

Smoke Out Those Rats!

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The July 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics helpfully explains how to use your new fangled car or tractor to smoke rats out of the barn! ...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

World War I Rat Hunters in the Trenches

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World War I Trench Hunters: Photo from a German newsmagazine with a not too-subtle remark on sanitary conditions: "The result of ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Reality Comes to the Rally

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The 2005 Monetpelier border terrier rally. This is a repost from 2005. I have done the Border Terrier Rally at Montpelier every year for...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Jack Black and the Wistar Rat

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A repost from March 2008 Jack Black was the official rat catcher for Queen Victoria. He wore a scarlet topcoat, waistcoat and breeches...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Rat Poison and Wildlife Conservation

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Rats are responsible for more animal extinctions than any other cause. The chief victims have been birds native to small tropical islan...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Faking It With the Turtleman

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Over on FlyRod+Reel Online , Chris Palmer notes that a recent David Attenborough special ( Frozen Planet ) filmed polar bears in a zoo whi...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Islands of Wolves, Rats, Lions and Dogs

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Isle Royale, Michigan.  An island of wolves. In the real world, population bottlenecks are not always quite as big a problem as some p...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Gassing the Rats, 1931

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From the July 1931 edition of Modern Mechanix we learn how to use a Model T Ford to kill off rats down on the farm.   .
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Queen Victoria's Jack Russells

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This post originally appeared on this blog in August 2007 . Queen Victoria put the "royal" into the Royal Society for the Preve...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Cash Incentives Work!

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Burma put a bounty on rat tails and this is what happened .  .
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Least Likely to Get a Date This Week

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Wow. What a catch. And Catholic too. This seems to be very important, as she repeats it several times.  No, I have no idea why that is im...
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Human Vs. Rat Maze Challenge

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Never underestimate a rat. Rats are used in labs to measure intelligence , they have steered rockets in space, and they have not only surviv...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Terriers at the Tar Pit

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  Dogs from the early 1980s were decidedly smaller than the Plummers seen today.   Like all working terriers, a Plummer Terrier is a composi...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Poisoning Lord Howe Island

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Lord Howe Island As I have noted in the past , rats are responsible for more animal extinctions than any other cause. The chief victims h...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Rats and Extinctions

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A repost from this blog circa August 2004 . Believe it or not, rats have been responsible for more species extinctions than anything else....
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