I live in a high density urban environment and a fact of life when living in the big city is pests. Pests like mice, raccoons, and rats.
But my wife and I have enlisted an efficient and economical method of pest control. We have a dog and a cat.
Our dog is an effective deterrent when it comes to raccoons. Whenever she sees or even senses a raccoon, she’s off to the races, running the critter up a tree or over a fence. She also goes after squirrels and gophers with the same zeal. So far, though, she has yet to catch any of her prey.
Our cat, on the other hand, is a more adept hunter. On more than one occasion, he has presented us with a gift in the form of a recently deceased mouse or rat, like the poor rat in the picture above. It’s then my job to pick up the spoils of my cat’s hunt in a baggie and deposit it into the trash, while my wife rewards our cat for its offering by giving him a treat.
So forget about hiring expensive pest control companies. Pets are the best form of pest control.
This is my entry for today’s WordPress one-word prompt, “pest.”
This, That, and the Other 
I agree but I can’t bear animals.. of any kind..
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Not even dogs or cats?
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Not in my house.. In others it’s OK..
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Not in my space, neither can I.
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Most cats are great hunters and they love to show you what they catch. I do not let my cats out of the house, but they can go in the lanai where the pool is and they often catch lizards.
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Ours is an indoor cat, but we let him out in our backyard, where he manages to find some nasty critter and bring them to us as a prize.
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Uhm, why have I adjusted assumed cats were used to “hunt” mice and such because they ATE them? I feel like I was lied to my whole childhood! 😯
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Adjusted=always. Auto correct is a drag at times
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Ha! Yeah, I got that. Damn autocorrect.
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Hear, Hear.. For another victim of autocorrect..
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They gift them, not eat them. 😊
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Ugh!! Who would want a dead mouse? Cats aren’t as intelligent as I thought 😑😧
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We have pests here too, mice and rats and the never ending supply of cockroaches….I like the approach of your dog ….
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May be….the pets control would be difficult than the….pest control…..
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Yeah, no cat over this way would want to wrestle with a rat in its weight class. Unless its a cracked out alley cat. I’ve seen squirrels run away from the rats we have over here. Ahh, NYC livin’.
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Isn’t NYC the home to the infamous pizza rat?
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I know nothing of pizza rats. Is that borough specific? Since I’ve moved fifteen floors up, I no longer have my ear to the ground where all the action is.
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Are you perhaps referring to Splinter?
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Who’s Splinter?
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You know! Sensei Splinter, the mutant rat. TMNT…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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I’ll have confer with my son. He’s the TMNT fan in our household…or at least he was when he was a kid.
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Don’t know. I think I saw a video on one of the late night talk shows a few months back of the pizza rat dragging a large slice of pizza down some steps
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Yes. I vaguely recall that. Hey, it’s their world, we’re just trying to survive in it.
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I vaguely recall that. Hey, it’s their world, we’re just trying to survive in it.
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