Working terriers that remove rats from burrow systems and harborage on site · U.S. and international
Canine rodent abatement is the use of working terriers to remove rats from the burrow systems and harborage where they live. The dogs locate the burrows, work them under the control of their handler, and take the rats on site.
Mia and Hugo are Patterdale Terriers, a small working breed built to go to ground. The dogs themselves use no rodenticide, which matters on sites where bait is restricted, unwanted, or not being taken because the rodents have other food.
Abatement brings an active population down quickly. It is one part of a program. Once the population is addressed, the site has to be corrected, or new rodents move into the same ground.
At a Brooklyn apartment complex, the grounds were planted in dense vegetation, and the burrow systems under it could not be found by people working the site on foot. The dogs found them and worked them, and the abatement was a success.
Abatement suits exterior burrow pressure: apartment and commercial grounds, yards, planters, and the perimeter of facilities. It works alongside the pest management program already in place, and the findings go to whoever runs that program. For the building itself, see structural exclusion consulting.
Consulting · Rodent Detection · Abatement