![]() (and technically for self defense under 34 PA statutes. Protection is removed for animals destroyed under 34 PA Statutes chapter 21 for agricultural damages or under the Code 58 section 141.3 for damage to personal property. Rats are protected wild mammals under the game law. You could track them In fresh rock dust the same as you could a rabbit on a fresh snow. ![]() ![]() We spread rock dust everywhere ( powdered limestone) to suppress coal dust. Some times you could kill one with a rock or run them down and stomp them. A rat would climb onto the rail to get the peanut butter, and would ground himself out when it grabbed the copper wire. You hooked the one end onto the copper trolley line ( 440 volt DC) ,and the other end you would smear peanut butter on the hook. I used to take 10 gauge copper wire, peel back some insulation, and make a small hook on each end. Can’t imagine what they ate to stay alive. Sometimes you would see rats out along the track, miles from people and a dinner hole. During long coal strikes like those in 19, the rats were starving and got pretty bold. A couple of time I saw rats hop up on a guys chest while they were sleeping on wooden planks in the there. Guys would hang their buckets on J hooks on the mine roof to keep them out. They would come in the dinner hole, which was a big attraction for them, and open the lid on a dinner bucket. It’s totally dark.no animal, no matter how good their night vision is, can see any better than a human in zero lighting situations. I never understood how rats survived underground. When they closed down, rats would leave them and nearby farms or town would be full of them for a while. Back in my Grandfather’s time, there were lots of smaller coal mines.
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