(05-26-2016, 11:17 AM)maxen57 Wrote: That's actually dangerous. Rats may carry diseases and if your dog was ever bitten, chances are she would've gotten sick as well. My aunt is very particular about not giving the dogs a chance to wander into the kitchen where they can get into dark corners where rats may be hiding. Her toy poodle loves looking for rats even when they were still in Manila. I would not let dogs of mine near rodents as well because it may be fatal to them.
You are right. It was yucky to see Jedi killing a big rat. And she wagged her head while biting the dead rat that I saw the intestines, huh, sorry for that yucky line. I was in panic because what if Jedi was poisoned by that rat? Her first victims were mice and it was easy for her because what she does is to trap the mouse with her paw and she would kill the mouse with the other paw. But with rats, she bites them. What my husband did on the first occasion was to wash jedi's mouth with vinegar. According to my husband's brother, vinegar can neutralize the poison if present. And when the vinegar was applied, Jedi was like kissing the floor of our kitchen with her left cheek and right cheek in succession. I was terrified until my husband said nothing is wrong, Jedi was just reacting to the sour vinegar.
With our dogs now, I'm sure they have the same ferocity with mice and rats. But we make sure that they don't catch those rodents. Fortunately we can drive away the rats when we see one in our yard. Our house is clean of rodents.
