Where Have All the Rats Gone?

[ohiochuck]

When I was in high school/college in the 1960s, every town in our county had a dump and at night hundreds of the 4 legged rats came out to play/eat.
Lots of fun shooting with a flash light.
Now I have not seen a 4 legged rat in over 50 years- no city dump allowed.
Modern progress??
It was nice while it lasted!

 

[KWK]

 

[rut]

I lucked out a few years ago and got a farm to whack them. Loaded with them.

 

[MOhunter]

I dunno about modern 'progress' but I'm sure the dump would draw them. Just like any farm with any kind of animal feed. But we stopped feeding cows/animals years ago--no rats. Well....rats. LOL

 

[dljackson]

Country boys should be allowed to drive into the city at night to hunt rats, just my opinion

 

[MJS]

If you feed them they will come. (But I don't advise doing that!)

 

[DesertSilver]

Had a dead one in the rat trap yesterday and this morning.

 

[MJS]

When I was in high school/college in the 1960s, every town in our county had a dump and at night hundreds of the 4 legged rats came out to play/eat.
Lots of fun shooting with a flash light.
Now I have not seen a 4 legged rat in over 50 years- no city dump allowed.
Modern progress??
It was nice while it lasted!

I remember that too. We'd go to the dump on Saturdays and see rats especially if it was raining or cloudy. That would be some good shooting now!

 

[PowderBurnt]

No rats at our landfill. It's covered every night. We see more rats coming off people's loads than from anywhere else. Our feral cats decimate them.

 

[MOhunter]

Country boys should be allowed to drive into the city at night to hunt rats, just my opinion

OMG wouldn't that be great! Can you imagine the confusion and panic it would cause. But man, I'd do it if they let me....

 

[Vana2]

As a teenager we used to go to the dumps to shoot rats, there were thousandsof them! Wasn't unusual for each of us to burn through a brick or two of .22 rimfires in a morning.

Then it suddenly dried up. Don't know where the rats went.

Cheers!

 

[daddypaddy]

they either died of old age, moved to a different town, or evolved. 50 years is a long time.

 

[Bandito]

Would love to try that today. I know the owner of the local trash transfer station. I was just wondering........ Be Well Brothers, Bandito

 

[Bandito]

Were he alive today, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth might like that art above, of the rat driving a rat rod. B.

 

[Peashooter]

My friend said today that he think a rat might have found its way to his decommissioned little farm, last one seen i shot in mid December.

I could also tell about another favourite hiding spot of Rats, but i am very - VERY sure the admins will not like my humor.
So i will of course not go there.

Also as it is my friend that live out there in the sticks, i have been coaching him in how to turn the path of a conversation onto something you would like, like a invitation to come and shoot rats.
CUZ my friend would not like to just go head on, so i gave him a few insights on how to make people think they got a damn good idea and ask him for help.

 

[ohiochuck]

As a teenager we used to go to the dumps to shoot rats, there were thousandsof them! Wasn't unusual for each of us to burn through a brick or two of .22 rimfires in a morning.

Then it suddenly dried up. Don't know where the rats went.

Cheers!

Maybe they all became politicians

 

[JohnTaylor]

When I was in high school/college in the 1960s, every town in our county had a dump and at night hundreds of the 4 legged rats came out to play/eat.
Lots of fun shooting with a flash light.
Now I have not seen a 4 legged rat in over 50 years- no city dump allowed.
Modern progress??
It was nice while it lasted!

I’ve shot 5 in the past month….they just love my wife’s tomatoes…shoot them at night with an air pistol at about 12”… they usually fly off the trellis and into the dogs mouth. Quite the sound of the dogs jaws clacking together crunching the rat. John

 

[KWK]

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Some might not know a rat motor is a Chevy big block