A Yorkshire rat catcher says he's received hundreds of death threats and hate comments - because of his job.
Kieran Sampler, 29, founded a Facebook page called Yorkshire Rat Pack where he shares jobs and supports other rat catchers. Since he started it in 2018, he's received hundreds of hateful comments from hunting saboteurs who disagree with his job role. This includes people threatening to kill his four-year-old daughter with a sledgehammer and wishing that his mum “dies a slow and painful death”.
But he says he “understands” animals have to live so kills the rats in the “nicest possible way”. The father-of-one said: 'We understand everything has got to live but rats have a lot of disease and they can cause a lot of things. With our job, they are there to be controlled and I don't go around killing everything - it's just not in me. 'It's matter of preventing it.
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