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Trenchy Rats: Worst Enemy in World War 1 Many soldiers from World War I shared that their worst enemy in war were not the soldiers they fought against, but rather the weather, the mud, the cold and, perhaps more than anything, the rats. Rats in their millions infested the trenches where soldiers slept and lived. These rodents, sometimes huge, tried to eat the soldiers' foods, crawled over them and bit as they slept, carried diseases and nibbled on the dead comrades' corpses, sometimes disfiguring them completely by eating their faces and eyes. For these reasons, soldiers developed a passionate hatred for rats, which they tried to hunt for various methods, such as ambushing them with shotgun fire or stabbing them with their bayonets, in which a piece of cheese or bread would be attached to attract rats. Trench rats were rodents that were found around the frontline trenches of World War I. Due to massive amounts of debris, corpses, and a putrid environment, rats at the trenches b