In the last two years, the city’s complaint hotline has received a record of more than 48,000 calls reporting rat sightings. But fear not—a diverse group of New Yorkers has found a natural way to combat the disease-laden rodents. Instead of rat poison, they let loose a pack of furry terriers into New York City alleyways.
A terrier smells a rat and leaps into a heap of garbage. A second terrier runs and dives in too. A rat scrambles out. A third terrier catches the rat and bites. The rat’s limp body falls to the ground. The dog owner picks up the dead rat with gloves and drops it into a garbage can.
This appears to be a natural solution since rat-hunting is what terriers do best.
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The same instinct and action needed to root out crooked politicians!
Whoops...are there any honest ones? We could wind up with no one left in government.
"heap of garbage".........This is why the city has such a major rat problem, major amounts of garbage and litter thrown all over the place from sidewalks, streets and sidewalks. Not counting the way businesses dispose of garbage by setting out huge mounds of garbage bags overnight, a feast for rodents.
The city will need a million terriers to make a dent into its rat problem.
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This idea doesn't happen to be original, there's a couple guys in England that has a pest control company that does it (I think the former mayor fun size probably texted this from Britain, rumor or better rumour has it that he plans on running for mayor in London). In fact,it was in an episode of the Wire's second season when some thugs and a crooked C.O. on a street corner had a jack russell chase a rat and it tore it up. For all intents and purposes, this sounds like the city is throwing money away again on a few people with what will turn out to be a fruitless venture. The city would save more money if everyone in NYCHA, cluster shelters or hotel shelters just got a terrier of there own
And there wouldn't be heaps of garbage without heaps of people. Especially the people who can afford to waste food dump it in the subway and make a pop culture icon out of a rat hauling a slice down the stairs. This also includes heaps of these new restaurants and whole foods and stores like them who wind up wasting lots of their meat and produce because it goes bad in 5 hours.
That's why I like a deli with a cat.
Don't diss Pizza Rat!
He's our icon.
Send them to the City Council. You have piles of garbage infected with rats.
We need to call to the Pied Piper...
And if the rat has a disease (do rats carry rabies?) and bites the dog...?
Dogs have their shots if properly licensed.
You must however be careful not to come in contact with the dogs saliva after he catches a rabid rat!
Especially if you have cuts on your hands.
Talk to your vet and family doctor!
They need to go after a certain type called democRATS.
So after close contact with a rat, you are allowing that dog into your home? Hmmm.
Have we run out of cats, that we have to turn to dogs?
I do remember, as a teenager, seeing some dude taking his Jack Russel terrier out ratting in Washington Square Park. He'd tilt a trashcan and then let it slam back down, and his dog would chase down and kill the rats that swarmed out.
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