Sentences with phrase «catch rats as»

And this one is evidently «among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.»

Not exact matches

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The devoted gym rat has developed from a slender freshman who cracked the starting lineup to score 10 points per game with a catch - and - shoot outside game, into the Sac - Joaquin Section's leading scorer at 32 points per game as a senior.

Revealing the kills, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the tabby tom hasn't got it quite right yet — a criticism some may be levelling at Mr Cameron's coalition government — as he's been catching mice instead of the more muscular rats he was brought in to deal with.

According to The Informer sources, Mr. Karbo, who was in the company with his inexperienced and noisy lawyer, Egbert Faibille Jnr., was as meek as rat caught up in a trap.

Sitting on the Cabinet table, wearing his little Union Flag number, he looked as happy as, well, Larry — but let's hope he won't be called on for his official rat - catching duties tomorrow.

Trappers have been sent in to catch rats, and spraying with pesticides such as DDT has begun to kill off the fleas that carry the bacterium.

Velvet was one of the unlikely rats that succumbed to a tumor, but I will say this: She was a thousand times better as a pet than the frogs we got a year later, which insisted on eating only live crickets we caught ourselves every night.

This led to coconut water being dubbed as having an equal nutritional profile to human blood, or being a «blood replacement» and some gym rats caught on and theorised that it would have an optimal profile of nutrients for replenishing the electrolytes (sodium and potassium) lost in sweat.

As a result, murder for hire is almost always a sideline, and the people who engage in it are by and large stupid losers, quickly caught, and quicker still to rat out the idiots who hired them.

It became known as the Chinese Crested because Chinese sailors used it on board their ships to catch rats.

In addition to serving as a loyal companion, early Yorkshire Terriers were also used to catch rats in clothing mills — they were also used in the sport of rat - baiting.

This breed was developed during the 19th century for the purpose of catching rats in clothing mills — the Yorkshire Terrier was also used in the sport of rat - baiting until it became more popular as a companion pet.

«During years in the field,» wrote Leyhausen, «I have observed countless times how cats have caught a mouse or a rat and just as often how they have stalked a bird.

Because one of their many jobs has been to catch rats, Standard Schnauzers should not be trusted with small, furry family pets, such as hamsters, guinea pigs, and gerbils.

The original Yorkshire Terrier, known as the «Broken - Haired Scotch Terrier» was a 12 - to - 14 pound dog with wire hair whose intended purpose was the catching of rats and other vermin that lived in small spaces.

As time passed they were also used to hunt rats, because they appeared to have a knack for it, and its small size was perfect to get into tight places to catch them.

The dogs became famous as shipboard exterminators, expert at catching disease - bearing rats.

Their beauty and loving nature came to be valued as much as their rat - catching skills.

But my experience of one whose kitten we rescued but we could not catch her was that her catch was mostly rats (millions of feral rats as it is a pecan nut farm) and feral rabbits.