[HN Gopher] Her Majesty's Rat-Catcher (2013)
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       Her Majesty's Rat-Catcher (2013)
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-10-22 20:58 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | mkmk wrote:
       | If you have the stomach for it, it's fascinating to watch
       | terriers hunt for rats. What seem to be cute and charming family
       | pets are actually perfectly bred hunters. It changes how you see
       | them shake their toys, and you understand why so many dog toys
       | have a distinctive squeak.
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       | https://youtu.be/GO_xkUcVea8 (NYC)
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       | https://youtu.be/5_qUdwfxBVQ (on a farm)
        
         | sdwr wrote:
         | Definitely morbidly fascinating! The efficiency, the scale of
         | death, the way pack behavior maps effortlessly to hunting.
        
       | jihadjihad wrote:
       | While reading this I had the feeling that I had seen something
       | very similar, but could not for the life of me remember what it
       | was. It turned out to be one of the short films on Netflix that
       | Wes Anderson did [0]. Each of them is worth a watch IMO.
       | 
       | 0: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wes-anderson-
       | netflix-...
        
       | scrlk wrote:
       | In more recent times, there's a Chief Mouser to the Cabinet
       | Office:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of...
        
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