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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 22:02:13 GMT
Blistering audits have faulted efforts to fight what one official called a "rat crisis."
A Columbia University doctoral student estimated the number of rats in the city at 2 million, claiming to debunk a popular theory that there is one rat for each of the city's 8.4 million people. But scientists and city officials say it's impossible to accurately estimate the number.
www.cbsnews.com/news/in-battle-of-nyc-vs-rats-the-rats-appear-to-be-winning/
We lost the war in Vietnam. And even though we beat the snot out of Granada, we appear to have lost Iraq, indications are that we will lose Afghanistan and Vegas favors Russia in Syria. Now we are losing the Rat War. How the mighty have fallen!
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Oct 18, 2015 22:48:23 GMT
Welcome Bluemingidiot! So glad to see you here. Looking forward to your input.
The article says they've devoted 50 workers to the problem. 50 workers? 2 million rats? Sounds like obama's Afghanistan strategy.
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Post by poppy on Oct 19, 2015 0:17:05 GMT
They will never kill them all and it would take massive amounts of people and money to just get and keep them under control. I'd say it would take at least 2 trained guys per city block working full time to do it.
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Post by sawmilljim on Oct 19, 2015 0:30:08 GMT
They will never kill them all and it would take massive amounts of people and money to just get and keep them under control. I'd say it would take at least 2 trained guys per city block working full time to do it. That sounds true for Ny and the East
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Oct 19, 2015 0:49:45 GMT
They will never kill them all and it would take massive amounts of people and money to just get and keep them under control. I'd say it would take at least 2 trained guys per city block working full time to do it. That sounds true for Ny and the East What's the gestation period for a rat? Got to be less than 30 days, then a litter of maybe 8. They should be putting out bait with birth control mixed in. Maybe it would help with the flying rat problem too.
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Post by poppy on Oct 19, 2015 2:55:22 GMT
I don't remember Tom but I seldom dealt with rats around here. I was at a seminar last year about rodent control and the speaker showed some videos about the rat problem in NYC. One was a rather small area where it looked like a building had been torn down and they turned it into a little park area between buildings. Very nicely landscaped with benches to sit on. They hired a company to get rid of the rats because people were complaining. They showed them setting traps just before dark and checking them very early in the morning so people wouldn't see the rats. They set 30 traps the first night and caught 30 rats. They upped the traps to 40 and caught 40 rats the second night. They caught a total of over 350 rats in that little spot before they quit catching any.
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Post by themotherhen on Oct 19, 2015 3:13:41 GMT
That sounds true for Ny and the East What's the gestation period for a rat? Got to be less than 30 days, then a litter of maybe 8. They should be putting out bait with birth control mixed in. Maybe it would help with the flying rat problem too. I like the birth control bait idea, Tom. I think that would help some. However, I tried several different formulas of BC pills until my husband begged me to stop taking them because they all made me mean and crazy. Hello Ds2,3, and 4 ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 3:15:01 GMT
I wonder why they call those dogs rat terriers?
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Post by Wanderer0101 on Oct 19, 2015 20:43:27 GMT
New York is an excellent place for rats. I hope they overrun the place.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 0:46:30 GMT
That sounds true for Ny and the East What's the gestation period for a rat? Got to be less than 30 days, then a litter of maybe 8. They should be putting out bait with birth control mixed in. Maybe it would help with the flying rat problem too. From Wickipedia - Reproduction and life cycle of the Brown Rat
The brown rat can breed throughout the year if conditions are suitable, with a female producing up to five litters a year. The gestation period is only 21 days, and litters can number up to 14, although seven is common. They reach sexual maturity in about five weeks. Under ideal conditions (for the rat), this means that the population of females could increase by a factor of three and a half (half a litter of 7) in 8 weeks (5 weeks for sexual maturity and 3 weeks of gestation), corresponding to a population growing by a factor of 10 in just 15 weeks. The maximum life span is up to three years, although most barely manage one. A yearly mortality rate of 95% is estimated, with predators and interspecies conflict as major causes. When lactating, female rats display a 24-hour rhythm of maternal behavior, and will usually spend more time attending to smaller litters than large ones. Brown rats live in large, hierarchical groups, either in burrows or subsurface places, such as sewers and cellars. When food is in short supply, the rats lower in social order are the first to die. If a large fraction of a rat population is exterminated, the remaining rats will increase their reproductive rate, and quickly restore the old population level
And here's an article on birth control for rats in Chicago....too bad they don't put it into the politicians water supply.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/23/rats-on-birth-control-chicago-transit-authority_n_6374590.html
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Post by wolfmom on Oct 20, 2015 13:10:43 GMT
Just look up. Many cities are being over run by parrots. But they are pretty so it's OK.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 14:14:02 GMT
Just look up. Many cities are being over run by parrots. But they are pretty so it's OK. That would be the monk parakeets; also known as: as the quaker parrot - a small, bright-green parrot with a greyish breast and greenish-yellow abdomen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_parakeetThere was a small colony that had just become established in central southwest Houston, when I first moved down there 20+ years ago. Now, they claim there are OVER 5000 of the winged creatures.
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Post by Tricky Grama on Oct 20, 2015 17:07:42 GMT
Oh, goody. Flying crap.
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Post by od on Oct 20, 2015 18:59:56 GMT
Just teach people how to fry them. Hunger problem and rat problem gone.
I opened this thread thinking it was about politicians!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 19:18:49 GMT
Just teach people how to fry them. Hunger problem and rat problem gone. I opened this thread thinking it was about politicians!And I responded on how to "control them".... humanely, if possible. Unfortunately, just like the rats, I don't believe that we will EVER be truly free of them.
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