Now city data suggest that sightings are more frequent than they've been in a decade. Through April, people have called in some 7,400 rat sightings to the city’s 311 service request line. That’s up from about 6,150 during the same period last year, and up by more than 60% from roughly the first four months of 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Yeah well, when you live in a shithole.....
NEW YORK - They crawled to the surface as the coronavirus pandemic roiled New York City, scurrying out of subterranean nests into the open air, feasting on a smorgasbord of scraps in streets, parks and mounds of curbside garbage. As diners shunned the indoors for outdoor dining, so did the city's rats.
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I live on a farm and there always are a few rats around. Perfect targets for my .22, maybe the New Yorkers should try shooting rats instead of each other.
ReplyDeleteShooting people is just fine, shooting rats is animal cruelty.
DeleteThere is nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot.
DeleteGlue traps and pellet pistols would help, except N.Y. probably has laws forbidding their use.
ReplyDeleteNYC can solve its rat problem by systematic and CITYWIDE poisoning. Rats are not resistant to the newer poisons. The problem is that they take care of the infestation only when and where they see the rats. This leads to the rats' resistance to the poisons, where now many NYC rats are resistant to the super warfarins (e.g. brodifacoum).. Unfortunately the way to do it correctly requires an organized effort on the part of the City, something that they are not capable of doing.
ReplyDeletemany NYC rats are resistant to the super warfarins
DeleteThat's bad news for the NYC rat who develops atrial fibrillation. (Cardiology joke)
But wow, who knew? I wonder how that resistance affects the whole coagulation cascade. Tonight I was supposed to finally finish writing a commentary for some journal, and review a manuscript for another, but instead I'll probably end up on pubmed going down this new rathole (you should pardon the expression). Anything to avoid real work -- especially work that is unpaid.
Rats are all over the place. People just tend to not notice them. My office is on the border between a college campus and affluent suburbia (i.e. not a slum), and I see rats scurrying around all the time, but then again I keep weird/late hours. Last summer I found two flat rats in the street leading to the parking garage. Totally flat and dessicated, like rat leather or rat jerky, having been run over by literally dozens of cars. Plenty of pedestrians, but no one pays attention it seems.
Mmmmm. Rat jerkey.
DeleteNest they will complain about the rat snake population explosion.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
They did not count all the 2 legged rats seen there everyday.
ReplyDeleteI’d wish 25,000 Black Mambas on NYC.
ReplyDeleteIt would solve 2 problems at the same time.
https://youtu.be/_Mk_f75TS1A?t=9
Delete"Black Mamba. I shoulda been muthafuckin' Black Mamba."