Tag: rats

  • London’s Ratcatchers

    London’s Ratcatchers

    Back in Victorian times rats were a huge problem for Londoners. Rats could be found everywhere: in streets, homes, gardens, sewers. Londoners trained dogs and cats to catch them but still they kept coming so the job of Ratcatcher was introduced. A City at War with Itself By the mid-19th century, London had ballooned into…