Posted on 05/07/2023 8:34:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Now that New York City has named its very first rat czar, residents of the big apple with stories to tell about close encounters with the beasts are coming forward.
Kathleen Corradi, New York City’s new director of rodent mitigation, has her work cut out for her. It appears that New York City rats are a special breed, performing super-rodent feats of strength and agility. One public health analyst was living on 112th Street in Manhattan, where she swears she witnessed a rat “flip itself over while stuck to a glue trap, pry itself off, and run away.”
In a second-floor apartment in Brooklyn, a woman says that she lifted her kitchen garbage bag when a rat leaped out, “parkoured off my leg,” and disappeared behind the oven.
Nearly every New Yorker has a rat horror story, which isn’t surprising. There are two million rats at the last rat census count. And some people report being so traumatized by their rodent close encounter that they’re forced to move.
Mr. Regenspan, a software engineer, heard a splashing sound while brushing his teeth. “I screamed, flushed, he swam back down. I poured in a bunch of cleaning products and flushed again,” he said.
He did not see the rat again, but he was traumatized, and tried his best never to sit down on that toilet afterward, instead using the commode at work for sitting purposes. He did not stay in that apartment much longer. “Once I moved, I lost the acute fear,” Mr. Regenspan said. “But I still close the lid on the toilet. Always.”
The rats have become nearly domesticated, so accustomed to humans they’ve become.
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Given the current ratio of voters, it is more likely that there are about 7 million rats.
Ok, I'm still confused, do they mean DemocRATS, (Rattus democratus) or the rodentia, like Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus
I guess I'll have to break with tradition and read some of the article to find out....
Although now that I think of it, Rattus democratus have been in control of New York for so long that it would hardly be newsworthy.
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I have kept rats for years as pets and they are exceedingly affectionate and intelligent creatures. However anything in its feral state can become a pest... rats, dogs, humans.
Elections have consequences.
They should get some Plummer terriers. Check out the Severn Valley Ratters here:
How long before Democrats give the real rats voting rights? 2 million in NYC alone…
Sleepy “woke” DARPA, or it’s free market successor, Elon Musk, could issue a grand challenge for STEM teams to create mini Terminator robots. Hunting down demon rats in an urban dystopia is useful R&D.
At this point there is no difference
Just feed um food soaked with left over jabs problem should take care of its self.
Rats enabled by Rats.
This isn’t news, NYC has had a continued rat infestation for over 200 years.
Floridians living near water are familiar with rats. We’ve even got an endangered rat species!
After 60 years of Florida living, I’ve only seen one mouse. Mouse traps are useless against rats.
We’ve been trained to tether lines to our rat traps, so the trapped rat can’t run off with it!
If they can get inside after dark, don’t be surprised if one should perch on your pillow. In the middle of the night, one tried to take a bite out my exposed foot.
A good sign you’ve trapped a rat in your glue trap if a flapping sound is heard as he makes his escape as you wake up. (They’re mostly nocturnal—and Florida rats can be sizeable).
A colleague told me a rat chewed through concrete to get inside his house!
All rodenticide bait products marketed to residential consumers must be sold as a block or paste bait, packaged with an EPA-approved bait station. Mouse and rat poisons in pellet form are banned.
Products marketed to residential consumers may contain no more than 1 pound of rodenticide bait.
Products marketed to residential consumers will no longer contain the most toxic and persistent pesticide active ingredients: second generation anticoagulants brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, and difethialone. Products containing these active ingredients will only be available for commercial use and for residential use by professional pest control operators.
That leaves Bromethalin legal to sell to consumers (who themselves are not forbidden to use the above from what I see, only that it is not to be sold to them), but since Products marketed to residential consumers may contain no more than 1 pound of rodenticide bait then the most effective poison have found - JT Eaton 750 Top Gun All Weather Rodenticide Bait Block Bromethalin Neurological Bait - that was legal to see to consumers may no be, if 1 lb. means per serving, vs. per container. Yet it would have to come with a EPA-approved bait station
So do stolen elections.
NYC has RCV for mayorals for a reason.
There's some Youtube videos of guys in the UK going to farms with their PCP air rifles and night vision scopes and shooting rats by the dozens.
Real Rats enjoying the crumbs left over the the political rats.
My letter to the EPS re: https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/mouse-and-rat-poisons-pellet-form-banned
I strongly protest the EPA banning all rodenticide bait over 1 lb + w/out a bait station from being sold to residential consumers.
After trying other rodenticide types, I found JT Eaton 750 Top Gun All Weather Rodenticide Bait Block Bromethalin Neurological Bait in a 120 block, 4 lb pail to be the most economical and effective rodenticide that could be sold to residential consumers, but which now seems to be effectively illegal for me to buy!
I should be able to buy my own bait station, and in the volume that is most economical and warranted for our area.
We live in a very densely populated, low-income American (mostly Latino residents) city, and when I moved to our present location then rats were all over the place, with many roles in yards and even playing tag (it seemed) in the daytime right near children.
As the city would only bait sewers, a neighbor and I placed bait, and which greatly reduced the rat population.
This was later helped by the city providing new trash barrels (yet which rats still eat thru). It also began offering some bait stations but that are not maintained and we have no control over = not as effective as our own neighborhood “rat patrol”
And as rats from other areas migrate here (esp. when the city digs up roads) then periodically we must place bait in places where no cats or humans are affected.
In fact, at 71 years of age I have never know the latter to be a problem, though in a population of 333 million, i am sure a small percentage has been, but which simply does not warrant the new EPA regulatory overkill against residential consumers.
So now the EPA has effectively degraded the quality of life in locations as ours, and the ability of informed residents to most effectively deal with problems that they are most aware of and best able to deal with.
So you should allow a resident as myself to purchase Bromethalin Bait in a 120 block, 4 lb pail without a bait station coming with it. Note that I am not affiliated with any company that provides such.
Or requiring such to be used, not bought, with a Tier 1 bait station for outside use, but Not restricted to only the “dozen [or so] ready-to-use bait station products [that are] are registered for use” by the EPA.
Thanks. Grace and peace thru Jesus the Lord.
…Well the democrat mayor appointed a Rat Czar so yeah…the problem is getting worse. Expectable and expected.
Rats schmats.
The main issue is how best to prosecute Trump.
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