Posted on 05/12/2021 10:34:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Chicago animal shelter has released 1,000 feral cats in a bid to fight the city’s ongoing rat infestations.
The Tree House Humane Society began its Cats at Work programme back in 2012 and not only does it give the cats a place to stay, but it helps deter rats from areas they’re not wanted.
Since the programme began, the shelter has released more than 1,000 cats in Chicago, who are now apparently ‘living their best lives’.
Tree House’s website explains:
After trapping and neutering a Community Cat, there are times when those cats cannot be reintegrated into their former colonies. This can be for a variety of reasons, including their former location being demolished (as in the case of cats living in abandoned buildings,) dangerous locations, etc. It is for these special cases that Tree house created the Cats at Work program.
The cats don’t actually eat the rats, however. Sarah Liss from the shelter told WGN9 that, while the cats will kill the rats when they first arrive at their new location, it’s the felines’ pheromones that keeps them away.
Tree House’s website further details that cats are placed two or three at a time into residential or commercial settings to tackle Chicago’s rat problem in an ‘environmentally friendly way’. While they don’t stay in someone’s actual home, property and business owners provide the cats with food, water and shelter, and generally keen an eye on them.
Cats eating (PA Images)PA Images Apparently, in most cases, the working cats go on to become ‘beloved members of the family or team’. Some have even gone on to have their own Instagram pages.
The site added, ‘These are feral cats who wouldn’t thrive in a home or shelter environment. By placing them in Cats at Work colonies, we’re able to make sure they’re living their best lives.’
Sounds like the purrfect solution.
They are going to need bigger cats if they want to get rid of all those damned democrats.
Chinese food becomes affordable again.
DemocRAT leaders run Chicago.
Cats can do better job!
In other news, the Illinois Game and Fish Department is struggling to determine what is causing a steep decline in the songbird population in the Chicago area.
A Chicago animal shelter has released 1,000 feral wolves in a bid to fight the city’s ongoing cat infestations.
The smell of cat urine keeps me away too.
Add that to the Chicago stench. Liberals are so pathetically stupid.
I was feeling sorry for a feral cat last year so
was putting out some food and water for it.
Put my trail cam up to get some pix and got some
of a posseum eating the cat food...
No longer.
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Where are all the animal rights activists—they seem to be in hiding these days.
“Save our rats” could be their rallying cry.
Why don’t they just hire a guy with a magic flute, to lead the rats dancing out of the city?
At night around O’Hare Field in Des Plaines you see Rats the size of a large Raccoon. Feral cats better hunt in packs or they will end up as rat food themselves.
Why don’t they just hire a guy with a magic flute, to lead the rats dancing out of the city?
Possums gotta eat, too. When they raid the cat food I put out, I just put out extra.
Well I wish them luck, but I’ve noticed an insane cat hate around the inner city that is probably why the rats end up moving in to begin with. There is going to have to be an effort to educate the public to be nice to the new furry pest patrol.
Bingo! 👍🏼
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