My dad did this with his friends on Park Road back in the 70’s 80’s when I was a kid.

We lived in Mt Pleasant in the 80’s. My dad was a teacher here but grew up on a farm in NY, so him and our neighbors would get hammered drunk and go out into the alleys with their dogs and their rifles (mostly 22’s) and scare out the rats with the dogs and shoot them. This was something he’d done growing up on the farm but was “even easier in the alleys” as he described it.

It was pretty wild but no one seemed to care because half the houses around us were abandoned.

Also a dog never got hurt/shot. An adult almost definitely got hurt but probably from falling down drunk.