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.
Why don’t they just hire a guy with a magic flute, to lead the rats dancing out of the city?
I just read where Rahm Emanual has been named by the
Clueless administration as an ambassador to Japan so
he’s right out.
oh good....filthy cats all over the place. there are better ways to kill them.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow;
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she’ll die!
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Stupid headline writer!
1,000 cats have been released since 2012. That’s like 112 per year.
We had a Cocker Spaniel that would do that when I was a kid in the 60’s...............
The problem is when the city refuses to pay him he will lure their children away.🤔
Rat Terriers were bred just for that purpose. NYC actually has clubs that get together on weekends to hunt rats for sport.
Dogs have issues with possums.
We had a possum that would come into our yard and if we chanced to let out the dog at same time well.....
So dog chased possum all over yard, late at night, little moonlight. Next morning went out and the entire yard was filled with dead baby possums.
Possums carry babies on their back and when Mama has to run from dog they all fall off.
Man what a mess that was. I just got out of the hospital with quadruple bypass. Had to run around and gather dead possums before dog got to them again.
There’s a story about a traveling salesman who just wanted a good night’s sleep.
Salesman calls the hotel front desk and says ‘there’s a mouse in my room and I can’t sleep’.
So the front desk sends a cat to the man’s room.
Salesman calls again...now the cat’s keeping me awake!
Front desk sends up a dog...and so on...until finally the salesman calls and says. “there’s an elephant in my room and I can’t sleep!”
So the front desk sends up a mouse...
WTH are Rats WANTED???
COULD THIS BE WHY CHICAGOANS ARE SEEING RATS ?
The city of Chicago is composed of 50 wards which average out to around 72 precincts of about 350 or more voters in each precinct. Many are former villages incorporated into the city as the city grew. . A Chicago Alderman is in effect a mini mayor. They have input into who gets city services and now it’s how those services are being administered seem to be running into who’s ward is it ?.
What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.Which apparently is the result of the turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage collapse. As stable integrated areas changed into being unstable because of constant dwelling turnover.had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. The same applies to all other city services including zoning where serving socialist ideologic political purposes single dwelling units are removed and replaced by multiple high rise apartments complcating city services such as sanitation where garbage collection routes are organized by ward boundaries. Which disrupts living style where that is permitted to happen.
50 year Alderman Burke who is under federal charges for corruption ward is an example. Burke’s ward ,14th, needed remapping . The 14th was originally known as “Back of The Yards” Once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost 15 plus city blocks square area composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units. Because of the construction, insurance rates varied and became known as the condemned as “redlining”. When the democrats also warily supported by the Bush 2 administration came up with the no 20% down mortgage removed. Areas in the ward dramatically changed in demographics. Many of those dwellings sold under those conditions went into disrepair or default.
Originally his ward headquarters and palace was on 51st street just west of Damen Avenue. Today’s palace is just off of Pulaski Road near the Madam Curie high school just off of Archer Avenue miles away.
His ward now consists of areas carved from parts of the 12th (known as Mc Kinley Park and Brighton Park) and parts of the 23rd (known as Archer Heights Garfield Ridge and Clearing) wards Miles from the original 14th That In a former section of the 23rd ward now the 14th ward in the Midway airport area,
2 patrons in a local bar along Archer avenue were heard complaining about rats in their garbage. They felt it was because of the delay in garbage collection. Also heard the same beef about street snow removal. It has also played hell on zoning and because of the disruption of jurisdictions with the administration of city services such as streets and sanitation which the alderman (salary $120.000 plus allocations on local projects) do oversee and have input over.
By.employing this concept of remapping are residents are being denied the representation they should have ?
Lori Lighthead could stare/scare the ‘rats away being a ‘rat herself.
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I didn't know Feral Cats were tough enough to get rid of DemocRats.
Lori “BEETLEJUICE” Lighthead...................
“Cats can do better job!”
I would rather see cats running around a city than rats.
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