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Re: Whatever, Let's Have A Goddamn Blog Thread, But Try And Keep It Reasonable, pt B
Emaline:
Jesus, Tania, get your parents a cat!
Alex C:
This would also work.
Rat terriers are like tiny death machines. They don't play with their prey, generally, they just plain kill them quickly and with extreme prejudice. I've had plenty of cats who were good mousers in my life. But holy shit, Maggie. Maggie just does not fuck around when it comes to mice.
tania:
my parents hate cats, unfortunately. rat terriers might work though!
Spluff:
Do they call it a rat terrier because it looks like a rat, or because it kills rats?
Alex C:
I realize that you're mostly joking, but rat terriers are more of a type than a pure breed, much like feists. Ratting ability was traditionally valued more than things like coat color and the like. Maggie is actually part chihuahua to keep her size down, and at 11 pounds she's the dainty runt of her litter. "True" rat terriers (which is kind of a goofy term, honestly) usually are larger and have considerably different coloring, although some breeders are working to maintain miniature variants like mine. Anyway, she's got the ratting part down no problem though, that's for sure, and that's really the hallmark of the breed. And yeah, they're called that because they kill rats like crazy.
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