No one thinks about that when they say they’d love a go on a time machine, do they? It’s hardly surprising that rat-baiting was popular, really, given two facts about our city in that age: animals had no rights and very little compassion directed towards them, and rats were everywhere. READ MORE: The East London pub no one cleaned for 200 years with dead cats and dogs on the floor If you’ve ever pondered this question with any kind of curiosity, you were born a couple of hundred years too late.įor this was the question that rat-baiting, Victorian London’s most beloved blood sport, sought to answer.
Who would win in a fight between a dog and an army of rats?
