Stinkrats

Elliott Ambrosetti

Trained rodents bred for continual hunger. You release them when setting up camp and they scurry away to search for food to fatten themselves up before returning to their cage to sleep off their meal.

To avoid predators eating up your rations, they are coated in pig bile, giving them the horrid stench for which they are named; though it also tends to break down their fur and blister their skin. At first the bile is completely removed when skinned, but on long journeys as the skin is broken down the meat tends to retain the horrid stink of gastric juices.