What did soldiers do about rats?

In the trenches in WW1, what did the soldiers do about the rats in the trenches? (Another question for my project) :)What did soldiers do about rats?
I have just done this at school, and i learnt that they just had to learn to put up with them crawling over them.


While the soldiers tried to sleep at night they could feel the rats crawling all over them, and some would wait untill the rats were on their legs, then suddenly bend their legs upwars, sending the rats flying.


Some men would try and shoot the rats but this wasn't a good idea as the gunshot noise could set some shooting from the opposition off, so basically, it was just another thing they had to put up with xWhat did soldiers do about rats?
They would kill them when they could, often with a spade or their entrenching tool. I have also read that sometimes they would make an entertainment of it and keep score of who killed the most.


I have also read that they would spike a bit of old cheese on the end of a bayonet attached to a rifle and when a rat came along they would shoot it.


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They really couldn't do much or else their enemy could have heard them, but i guess they threw them out of trenches and or killed them.
Taped up their hind quarters, to stop them splitting. Hey it got lonely in the trenches!
they used them for entertainment like shooting them etc


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