And then they ate them

A village in China had an honorary dinner for 200 cats that they had released into their farm fields to eradicate their rat problem.

A couple of funny things about this story: for one, the villagers had decided they didn't want snakes around, so they got rid of all the snakes. Since the snakes ate the rats they again had a rat problem. Also, the villagers paid the equivalent of 1,200 euros for 200 cats. It is pretty easy to get cats for free. I think they got ripped off by the underworld cat black market.

After all the rats were gone, the cats got overstuffed with fish as a thank you. I can only imagine what happened to the cats after that.