Today I was going ratting with a good pal of mine just to a local farm ,we arrived dogs all excited my 2 a patterdale x and a bedlington and my pals 3 jr's .we had the usual chat with the farmer ,mug of tea kindly given to us and off we trodged to his feed room where his main problem is .my mate started moving a pile of wood that was being stored in there when some rats ran out ,my pat x jumped up to get one at this point my mate swong his spade at the rat missed and hit the dog right in the mouth and cut her bottom lip ,I took her back to the car and on a closer inspection not only a cut lip