They might have used them around the stables but my memory from those
days 40 years ago is not good enough to remember that well
Dave
>I would like to ask for your help in the following question (which is meant
>ABSOLUTLY seriosly):
>
>A friend of mine is owner of a yorkshire-terrier and absolutly convinced
>that this kind of dog was used in earlier times in English pits (in
>Yorkshire) in order to EXPEL RATS!
>
>I must admit that I had to laugh when hearing this - imaging the rats
>laughing, too, when seeing a yorkshire-terrier. However, I promised to clear
>this up - what I'm trying to do now.
>
>So: have YOU ever heard or read about dogs, especially terriers, working as
>"rat-hunter" in mines?
>
>I'm highly anxious for an answer and hope to hear from you, soon.
>Thank you very much.
>
>Greetings from the mining-city Gelsenkirchen, Germany
>Judith
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David A. Summers
Curators' Professor of Mining Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director
Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
University of Missouri-Rolla,
Rolla, MO 65409-0810
"fools talk, wise men listen." (a variant of Prov 12:23)
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related web pages
A growing selection of Dr. Summers' papers are being put on the Web
and can be accessed through the Bibliography
http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/faculty/biography.html
Rock Mechanics http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/
Waterjet Lab: http://www.umr.edu/~waterjet/
UMR Stonehenge: http://www.umr.edu/~stonehen/
Personal: http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/data/Summers.html
Mining Eng. http://www.umr.edu/~mining/
Waterjet Assoc http://www.wjta.org/
International Waterjet Society: http://www.iw.uni-hannover.de/iswjt/
Next American Waterjet conference: http://www.wjta.org/conference.htm
Next International Waterjet Conference (Provence, 2002)
http://www.bhrgroup.co.uk/confsite/jt02home.htm
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