Trash is not littering the streets like it used to. People are staying at home. Pizza rat has no pizza to drag back home. Now rats are emerging in normally bustling, now-quiet cities, looking for any scrap of food trying to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Source: WHBQ
Is a plague of rats following the coronavirus?
As urban rats face a growing food scarcity, we ask an expert what that could mean for your household. Source: TheHill
Ugh, Coronavirus Closures Will Force Rats into Peoples Homes
The cleverest rodent, and the bane of city dwellers everywhere, is about to get even cleverer. Source: Washingtonian
Rat sightings could rise amid coronavirus outbreak, experts say
A disgusting ripple effect we could see as the coronavirus spreads across the United States — an increase in rat sightings. Source: FOX 10 Phoenix
‘Rat academy’ teaches residents to fight rodent problem in their neighborhoods
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
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