On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 07:49 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > A cat surely? You might get a terrier or something of the sort that > was used for ratting earlier, but a family dog tends not to let its > hunting instincts show.
Presumably you have a lot of experience with dogs and cats when you say this. I know little about cats other than fables about Dick Whittington. My own dogs (over decades) have rid us of more mice and rats than any cat that I know about. shiv