https://people.com/pets/chicago-animal-shelter-releases-1000-feral-cats-combat-rat-problem/
QuoteA Chicago animal shelter has found a solution to the city's rat problem.
Since 2012, the Tree House Humane Society has released 1,000 feral cats into Chicago's streets as part of its Cats at Work program. After humanely capturing the feral felines, the rescue spays/neuters the cats and then releases them back outside to serve as environmentally friendly rodent control — and stray cat population control.
The program is a welcomed solution to Chicago's rodent issue, as the Illinois city recently topped Orkin's list of the "rattiest cities" in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive time, based on the fact that Chicago had the most rodent pest treatments in the past year.
"We've had a lot of our clients tell us that before they had cats, they would step outside their house, and rats would actually run across their feet," Sarah Liss of Tree House told Chicago's WGN 9.
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According to the Tree House website, the rescue places two or three neutered/spayed cats at a time into residential and commercial settings experiencing rat problems. Only felines who cannot thrive in a home environment, or cannot be reintegrated into their feral cat colonies, are part of the Cats at Work program that provides rodent control. After getting approved for a working cat, property and business owners are responsible for providing food, water, shelter, and wellness for the cats they employ to combat rats.
ssssssssssss they think this is a real solution?!
what happens when these cats start mating?
:ummwhat:
It says they're spayed and neutered lol
Some of those rats are the same size as cats! Garfield be like "not today!"
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Kitties to the rescue :stressed:
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genius, they should do that in London, then in turn the Foxes will take care of the cats
Some cats are actually afraid of rats and will avoid them, others see them as a lunch box with a tail, and others just want to kill them at any opportunity. That being said ..this might work.
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Quote from: Jayda X on May 11, 2021, 03:06:08 PM
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genius, they should do that in London, then in turn the Foxes will take care of the cats
Foxes know better than to mess with cats boo.
Y'all got stray FOXES?
Quote from: Gangsta Grillz on May 11, 2021, 03:04:07 PM
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Kitties to the rescue :stressed:
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dumb ass dogs could never
:woohoo:
Quote from: L0NZ. on May 11, 2021, 05:42:26 PM
Y'all got stray FOXES?
There was a mama and her 6 kids in my parents garden the last time I was in London. She was raising them behind the shed and my dad used to give them some chicken.
thats crazy. a fox might as well be a bear in America
Quote from: L0NZ. on May 11, 2021, 10:47:25 PM
thats crazy. a fox might as well be a bear in America
Bitch we walk by foxes like they're cats in London.
Quote from: L0NZ. on May 11, 2021, 10:47:25 PM
thats crazy. a fox might as well be a bear in America
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The foxes usually run away from you, they only come out at night and most of the time won't know they are around unless you live near a Forrest, park or the woods or something and then you'll hear them mate and it's literally sounds like someone is stabbing a baby in the eye :uhh:
The rat problem here in Chicago is unlike anything I have ever seen. Them mf is taking over and with a lot of the restaurants being closed due to the pandemic, the rats have no food source, they are starving and now getting into people's houses, etc. they are also more aggressive. I feel bad for the Chicago residents that have to deal with this.
Capitalism is out of control :uhh:
Quote from: Jayda X on May 12, 2021, 06:42:26 AM
Quote from: L0NZ. on May 11, 2021, 10:47:25 PM
thats crazy. a fox might as well be a bear in America
nxnxjd
The foxes usually run away from you, they only come out at night and most of the time won't know they are around unless you live near a Forrest, park or the woods or something and then you'll hear them mate and it's literally sounds like someone is stabbing a baby in the eye :uhh:
I want to bend you over a tree in London park at night.
:ohwow:
I love Nigerians. Well the hot ones anyway.
Foxes make the weirdest noises
Nnn Why does everyone have experiences with wild ass foxes except me :dead: I guess I grew up a city gwor
Quote from: The Night King on May 12, 2021, 06:51:58 AM
The rat problem here in Chicago is unlike anything I have ever seen. Them mf is taking over and with a lot of the restaurants being closed due to the pandemic, the rats have no food source, they are starving and now getting into people's houses, etc. they are also more aggressive. I feel bad for the Chicago residents that have to deal with this.
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What's so funny?
Not stray foxes
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Quote from: L0NZ. on May 12, 2021, 07:52:17 AM
Nnn Why does everyone have experiences with wild ass foxes except me :dead: I guess I grew up a city gwor
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I'm a city gor too
Never lived out of one
Foxes and badgers are all over
Nnnn what is a BADGER
Quote from: L0NZ. on May 12, 2021, 09:07:24 AM
Nnnn what is a BADGER
Didn't you watch/read Franklin?
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Somebody hear something
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Nnn. I watched her but don't remember anything about it
Quote from: Jayda X on May 12, 2021, 06:42:26 AM
Quote from: L0NZ. on May 11, 2021, 10:47:25 PM
thats crazy. a fox might as well be a bear in America
nxnxjd
The foxes usually run away from you, they only come out at night and most of the time won't know they are around unless you live near a Forrest, park or the woods or something and then you'll hear them mate and it's literally sounds like someone is stabbing a baby in the eye :uhh:
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This Pokemon spinoff