The New York City Department of Health is training community members to help combat the rodent problem. Source: r20.rs6.net
How to effectively protect your home from rats
Nobody likes a rat. And we aren’t talking about some shady people in your life. We are talking about the rodent variety. The best way to avoid dealing with rats or mice is to prevent them from com… Source: Sonoma Sun | Sonoma, CA
Rats will devour your car
As the rat population grows amid a warming climate, rodents are laying waste to vehicle wires â blowing fuses, starting fires and even totaling cars along the way. Source: Washington Post
Fossils of prehistoric human-sized rat that weighed nearly 200 pounds and had massive teeth discovered in South America
Archaeologists have discovered fossils of an enormous, prehistoric rat that was the size of a human years ago in South America. Source: Fox News
Siouxland District Health confirms mouse in burrito at local restaurant
A customer at Jim’s Burgers on Gordon Drive allegedly found a mouse mixed in with his burrito order Wednesday afternoon. Source: WTRF
‘More rats than residents’ at one NYCHA development in East Harlem, tenants say (via WPIX 11 New York)
EAST HARLEM, Manhattan — Rats are running under parked cars at the Washington Houses in a city parking lot in East Harlem. Some in the area say rats take over at night and even during the day. “Every night there are dozens under my car,” said Theodore Barikdar, who has a minivan. Barikdar was assigned a parking space right next … Read More
Rotting Trash Piles Sky-High in LA, Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic (via NBC Southern California )
Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year’s record number of flea-borne… Source: NBC Southern California
Rats Are Taking Over New York City (via r20.rs6.net)
Gentrifying neighborhoods are a key reason behind the vermin outbreak, which extends beyond New York — Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles are also confronting issues. Source: r20.rs6.net
‘Unearthing and unleashing hell’: Gentrification driving rat infestation in New York City (via Washington Examiner)
Gentrification is being blamed for New York City’s rat problem, which has spiked almost 38% in the last few years. Source: Washington Examiner
Catonsville elementary school overrun with mice, parents say (via WBFF)
CATONSVILLE, Md. (WBFF) — Some Baltimore County parents say their children’s school is overrun with mice and their complaints to school officials Seem to be ignored. The pesky problem is at Woodbridge Elementary in Catonsville and evidence of the concerns was caught on camera. A mouse is Seen scurrying in the hallway at the school. Parents call it a mice … Read More
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