On 28/09/2018 18:21, joy wrote:
On 9/28/2018 12:44 AM, Jes Me wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:25:18 -0600, Tigger
wrote:


Their observations, which the researchers recount in the latest issue of
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, revealed the cats to be miserable
predators of rats ...
...

NOT my experience.

I had rats at a place I lived many years ago.
ALSO had 2 (bonded) male cats,
who QUICKLY learned to team up and dispatch the rats.

When I had indoor/outdoor cats, I had a couple who were hunters, and
they also caught and killed rats.

Boyfie was very good at catching young rats. His best was 5 presented to
me in one evening. He said no way to the huge ones with big chisel
teeth. I had to get the terriers in for those.