60 EEVELATIONS OF A KAT-CATCHEK. 



it will never look at another. It is a very bad 

 plan to let a pup play with a Eat too much, 

 for this causes the pup never to put a hard 

 mouth on the Rat. When this latter occurs 

 it is the best plan not to allow the same pup 

 to see another Bat until it is a month or two 

 older. If you will take care and trouble with 

 a pup you can bring it up to your own liking, 

 and to do anything you want. I have worked 

 seven years with a curly-coated retriever bitch, 

 and when ferreting a brook she would stand in 

 the water and catch the Rats that escaped 

 from the nets into the brook and bring them 

 to me alive in her mouth. I have sold 

 hundreds of Rats she has caught in this 

 manner, and to show you how the dogs can 

 be brought up with the ferrets I need only 

 mention that this bitch would lie down and let 

 two ferrets kill a Rat on the curly coat of 

 her back. 



Farmers know too well of the many restless 

 nights the cows and horses experience through 

 Rats. I have seen when trapping all night at 

 a farm the Rats running over the cows and 

 horses whilst sleeping : and when horses have 

 been working in the field all day they want 

 better rest in the night. I have known when 

 farmers would not let the Rat-catcher ferret 

 their buildings gratis, simply because they have 



