Sentences with phrase «of hunting rats»

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The club is starting to reek of a stench of failure and hints at something truly amiss; it is akin to a dead bandicoot in your car, you can smell the god - awful stench but you won't know the source until you hold your nose and go on a rat - hunt to locate and dispose the rotting carcass.

According to Defra, exemptions in the Hunting Act allow the following activities to take place in limited circumstances: stalking and flushing out; use of a dog below ground, in the course of stalking and flushing out, to protect birds being kept or preserved for shooting; hunting rats and rabbits; retrieval of hares which have been shot; falconry; recapture of wild mammals; and research and observation.

Evidence of butchery and fire on animal bones found near hobbit remains suggests that these early humans enjoyed a good barbecue, usually of baby elephants, huge rats, and deadly Komodo dragons that they hunted and killed.

Overseen by his seventh - grade English teacher, Holling Hoodhood spends Wednesday afternoons reading Shakespeare, hunting rats, and learning the consequences of the Vietnam War.

The earliest function of the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier was to work on farms, hunting rats, herding livestock or guarding from outsiders.

Also, despite that they were no longer used for hunting, the dogs were valued for their ability to keep the house free of rats.

A good example of this is the fact that you should avoid keeping small pets such as rats and guinea pigs with small hunting dogs such as chihuahua and king Charles spaniel.

These hunting dogs were bred by the indigenous people of Malaysia as a means of controlling vermin like rats and snakes.

History and Facts: Originally bred as a smaller version of the Standard and Giant Schnauzer, this dog was originally used for hunting rats.

The truth of the matter is that you never really know what your Yorkie will be up to next.The Yorkie was originally bred to hunt rats in clothing mills in the county Yorkshire in England.

The Jack Russell Terrier is still built as a dog that is intended for hunting and the tradition of docking the tail so it may serve as a handle to hold while pulling a ratting dog from a hole is still intact today (although rarely done for practicality it is mostly done for the look of it.)

It is believed that one of its ancestors is the Melitensis, which were brought to Italy from an island in Croatia, where they were originally used for hunting mice and rats.

They are the smallest of the English herding dogs and were also adept at hunting and catching both rabbits and rats.

Mirrored in some ways after the Earthdog competitions (which utilize safely caged rats which are not harmed by the dachshunds and small terriers which hunt them), Barn Hunt gives any appropriately sized dog — regardless of breed or mix — the chance to show off its hunting skills.

In Barn Hunt, I'm given my natural task of hunting for rats.

With its first use as hunting rats, it's apparent that the Toy Fox Terrier was not only a show dog from its early days, but actually be of some use around the house and yard to get tasks done.

The usual source of Y. pestis is the rat flea, but hunting pets can contract the plague from eating infected rodents or rabbits.

Jim Stevenson, executive director of the Galveston Ornithological Society, doesn't much care when urban cats hunt nonnative species such as the common domestic rat or collared dove.

Some of the game little terriers also were owned by miners and other workers who used them for sport, such as badger digging, rabbiting, ratting, and fox hunting.

Rat Terriers are capable of hunting rodents and vermin above and below ground.

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

They may be small, but they enjoy plenty of exercise and can show an interest in hunting rats.

Toy Fox Terriers have been initially bred to hunt rats, but later become more like of a reliable family companion.

These dogs were used to hunt down large rats that occupied the banks of the Aire River.

I knew she must have hunted rabbits, rats or moles for survival, from the way she reacted to any little noise of grass moving.

The development of the Yorkshire Terrier started as settlers came from Scotland to Yorkshire in the 1800's to work in the textile mills and mines, bringing with them their little dogs that hunted rats and served as their companions living with them in their homes.

By hiding food and the occasional treat under cardboard boxes, in empty plant or yoghurt pots, or in different areas of the animal's cage, your Rat will be forced to hunt for its food — this will keep it occupied for many happy hours and prevent boredom.

History and Facts: Originally bred as a smaller version of the Standard Pinscher, the Min - Pin was originally used for ratting and vermin hunting.

In contrast, the eggs of Taenia taeniaformis are eaten by rodents (rats and mice) so other cats become infected during hunting by eating an infected rodent.

History: Affenpinschers have an origin from Germany and are known as a «Schnauzer» ratter - type of dog whose purpose was to hunt and kill rats.

The breed descended from the Terrier breeds of Germany, which were used by farmers primarily to hunt rats in farms and stables.

First bred to hunt rats, this breed is called Zwergpinscher in Germany, his country of origin.

Indeed, most of the feral cat presence in Australia is associated chiefly with hunting mice, rats, and rabbits, who are also introduced species and are abundant habitat rivals to the small marsupials whom feral cats are most often accused of harming.

Most of these breeds began over 200 years ago as working terriers, developed to hunt game, control rat populations or chase off varmints.

Avian diseases accidentally imported in connection with cockfighting also had a part in the loss of native Hawaiian birds, but blaming cats and feral mongooses, introduced to Hawaii in 1883 to hunt rats on sugar cane plantations, has long been more politically convenient than challenging the practices of Hawaii's biggest export industries.

Bred more for the purpose of hunting vermin rather than for «type,» a number of other breeds are in the Rat Terrier's background.

In Great Britain that often took the form of breeding programs to produce a dog that would hunt fox, chase badgers or kill rats.

My first, more romantic impulse was to guess that they were shooting gators, or perhaps hunting a swamp rat of mythical proportions, but they were probably after ducks or quail.

One — Unblemished Beachiness When Christopher Columbus came ashore 70 nautical miles west of here in December of 1493 with his soldiers, priests, pigs, horses, wheat, sugarcane and rats and microbes, he was on the hunt for gold.

With an Evil Rat in possession of the key needed to escape the dream world, both Axel and Pixel must go on a perilous hunt and completing countless puzzles along the way to hold a hope of escaping.

I would use my real name, but I have seen what happens to those scientists who are outspoken on AGW — they, like Santer, tend to have eviscerated rats left on their porches, or receive death threats, or become victims of with hunts by the likes of the Virginia AG and Inhofe.

The Heath Ledger - directed Modest Mouse video for «King Rat,» released Tuesday, follows the animated adventures of a ship helmed by whales on the hunt for humans — harpoons and all.Ledger developed the video to draw attention to