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10-24-13, 09:16
If you're working dog lover, you'll find this well written article interesting.
"In City Hall Park, at 9:30 p.m., a small posse of dog enthusiasts has gathered under dim park lamps. They are members of a group who go by the noms de guerre R.A.T.S., an acronym for Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society. Ryders Alley is a famously rat-infested alleyway in Lower Manhattan; “trencher-fed” is a 19th century term literally referring to a type of wooden bowl that was used to feed hunting hounds, but over time came to describe the hounds that lived together with their owners for use in group hunts. R.A.T.S. meets when its members can, sometimes as often as once a week. When they meet, they hunt, stalking New York’s rat-infested alleyways and housing projects to chase down the city’s pestilent whiskered menace."
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"In City Hall Park, at 9:30 p.m., a small posse of dog enthusiasts has gathered under dim park lamps. They are members of a group who go by the noms de guerre R.A.T.S., an acronym for Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society. Ryders Alley is a famously rat-infested alleyway in Lower Manhattan; “trencher-fed” is a 19th century term literally referring to a type of wooden bowl that was used to feed hunting hounds, but over time came to describe the hounds that lived together with their owners for use in group hunts. R.A.T.S. meets when its members can, sometimes as often as once a week. When they meet, they hunt, stalking New York’s rat-infested alleyways and housing projects to chase down the city’s pestilent whiskered menace."
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/uploads/2013/10/widePhoto-rats-10.jpg
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2013/the-rat-hunters-of-new-york/?utm_source=feedly