The pitch for the Steel City Ratting Coalition couldn’t be any clearer.
“Yinz got rats? We’ll bring the dogs dahn,” reads the group’s Facebook page.
On a Sunday evening, the ratting group — which uses dogs to hunt and kill rats for pest control, also known as canine rat abatement — is called to an Ohio poultry farm. The property owners spotted rats scurrying from their peacock coop, an 1820s building original to the site. In addition to the well-known disease risk and property destruction that a rat infestation brings, rats are also known to steal eggs and eat chicks and goslings…