Smokin’ hot sport
Today, the common brown rat is a forgotten mammal. Ask the average village lad when he last saw a specimen of this rodent and you collect a very, very blank stare. Vastly different from the days of my youth when Mus decumanus was a source of sport and profit.
We had no television, no wireless nor youth club, but there was ample entertainment to be gained in the pursuit of rats and sparrows. Rats were our main quarry. In spring we hunted the banks of well-laid hedgerows looking for runs. We encouraged our eager terriers to poke their noses down
