Which was more than a foot long from snout to tail, when Ms. Darby softly yelled, “Watch out.” As she rushed away, the runner said, “Oh, my god.”
Promotion Ignore advertisements: Katie is around 4 years old and weighs 12 ½ pounds. She is forty part mongrel, sixteen percent pug, sixteen percent rat terrier, and twenty-eight percent Chihuahua.
In 2022, Ms. Darby, 50, who works as an educational consultant by day, took Katie from a shelter in Texas, which is close to the Mexican border.
Shortly on, Ms. Darby said, “She sort of revealed to me her interest in doing this while I was walking her in a playground that had tons and tons of rats.”
Katie caught 115 rats in 2023. She’s getting close to 500 with around a week left in the year. About 40% of the fatalities occurred in Prospect Park, according to a color-coded Google map called “Katie’s rats 2024.”
