BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 24, 2025
The Lanes can’t wait to go rat hunting again on Monday. In the last two years, the homeschooling farm family from the Lincoln County town of Jefferson has traveled to 30-plus Maine farms and even a restaurant to do just that, bringing their specially trained dogs Echo and Finn to hunt and kill dozens of rodents in a couple hours. It’s a traditional solution to a long-running, apparently increasing problem for Maine farmers, homesteaders and businesses alike: rodents destroying their buildings, tunnelling under their property and killing their poultry.