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Stray cats have been tapped as a resource for fighting Chicago’s rat problem, but dogs have a history, too, as rat catchers and killers.
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Rats and mice were a perennial problem in warehouses, stores, stations and signal boxes so rat catchers were numbered among the railway staff on Jan. 1, 1953. Here Jim Forty and Alfred Greenwin show off the traps and poisons of their trade in St Pancras goods yard, along with their canine assistants Sally and Tiny, and a selection of rats that did not get away. Rat killers
