Extended Family - Peeps and Dags of #themongrolhoard

Lady Rat Catchers This video was specifically made to highlight some of my favorite rat catching friends and their wonderful dogs. When it comes to rat catching and rat catching dogs there is a lot of both ups and downs. This means triumphs and tragedy, fun and mud, excitement and doldrums. Im my experience as rat catcher there has been many of such moments. Losing Grumpy dog while hunting, Squeakers getting a foot stomped by a cow, driving a hours on end to find old rodent poop but no rats are all examples of the downs. FInding a farm with more rats than you can ever catch, watching a good catch, and spending time with friends, and good tired terriers are some of the up moments. While many people want to enjoy the glamour that is the actually rat catching portion of being a ratter or owning a ratting dog, few people stick through the down moments and the hard work portions that actually make a rat catcher or a rat dog. The endless driving to farms to see if they even have a rat issue, visiting a farm in all seasons from knee deep mud to the heat of summer, the back breaking digging, and socialization of a dog with livestock and poultry area few of the things that arm chair rat catchers try and skip when they ask to be invited on a hunt. I am always thankful for the wonderful farm and extended family of friends that I have developed though the work and dogs of #themongrolhoard Kaity and Anna were both their when Peanut was electrocuted, K Ruby and Anna were there when Sir Grumps Alot was lost, Cory and Katy patched up Squeakers with professional skill and so on. Without theses moments I would likely be lost. This video is simply a small way of trying to say thank you for the support and friendship along the journey especially to the strong and capable women who often are behind the scenes. We are just regular people , spending time on farms , and enjoying and rat catching with the dogs we have.