Great Topic!!
My elder family members tell of having "Rat Killings" when they were kids.
Supposedly, My great grandfather was in the corn crib wearing them out with a hay fork when 1 warf rat ran up each of his britches legs: he grabbed both of them at his knees, & squeezed until there was blood running out the bottom of this pants.
My uncle & great uncle are terrified of Rats & mice.
My uncle was bush hogging in the field years ago: we were in the shop & could hear the tractor running.
All the sudden, we hear shotgun blast, multiples.
We run out, & uncle Lucky is on the tractor with a shotgun shooting rats as they come out from the field.
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