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Post by enigma72 on Oct 22, 2022 2:46:28 GMT
The top 10 rattiest cities, according to Orkin, are: Chicago, Illinois New York, New York Los Angeles, California Washington, DC San Francisco, California Philadelphia, PA Baltimore, Maryland Cleveland, Ohio Detroit, Michigan Denver, Colorado www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/rattiest-ca-cities-2-make-top-5-list-in-new-orkin-report/ar-AA13dpzK?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f6bde01e72b94b7b92ec0fe8fae90a2b |
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Post by llanwydd on Oct 22, 2022 16:38:37 GMT
I think they missed a certain small city in central Wisconsin. Good not to see Florida on the list.
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Post by gw on Oct 22, 2022 17:53:41 GMT
I've been to half those cities and don't recall seeing any rats.
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Post by enigma72 on Oct 22, 2022 18:09:27 GMT
I've been to half those cities and don't recall seeing any rats. The only place I've seen rats in a city was in Europe |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 22, 2022 18:41:09 GMT
Wow, if Chicago is actually rattier than New York then they must have it really bad!
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Post by Xcalatë on Oct 22, 2022 19:42:09 GMT
The rats were always a presence in NYC but they took everything over since the pandemic it seems. I was back Home this summer and it was ridiculous and disgusting it also doesn't help that there is garbage everywhere. Sad to see the city swimming in filth.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2022 20:09:16 GMT
Cleveland has climbed two places and looks to be in the ascendancy. But it'll be hard for Cleveland to topple perennial pacemaker Chicago.
Back in 2019, the Cleveland, Akron and Canton region of Ohio moved up a place in the regional top 10.
Ohio Rats!!
'Rats' - The Kinks
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2022 20:19:00 GMT
I've been to half those cities and don't recall seeing any rats. The only place I've seen rats in a city was in Europe
I see rats where I live in England, especially down by the river.
I wonder what the rat to person ratio is for the top 10 U.S. cities. I'm guessing Cleveland has the smallest human population in this top 10 but boasts an impressive scale of rats.
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Post by enigma72 on Oct 22, 2022 20:20:51 GMT
The only place I've seen rats in a city was in Europe I see rats where I live in England, especially down by the river.
I wonder what the rat to person ratio is for the top 10 U.S. cities. I'm guessing Cleveland has the smallest human population in this top 10 but boasts an impressive scale of rats.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2022 20:26:06 GMT
I see rats where I live in England, especially down by the river.
I wonder what the rat to person ratio is for the top 10 U.S. cities. I'm guessing Cleveland has the smallest human population in this top 10 but boasts an impressive scale of rats.
Rat : human I love mathematical statistics!
Statistics can paint a picture. But they must be regularly updated.
"America Is on the Verge of Ratpocalypse.
Warmer weather is fueling a rodent surge, straining public health systems and the economy. It's time for the federal government to step in.
Bobby Corrigan is the rat master. Some call him the rat czar. To others, he is simply a rodentologist, or as NBC recently described him, “one of the nation’s leading experts on rats.” Call him what you want; he is mostly alarmed. “I travel all over the world with this animal, and the amount of complaints and feedback and questions I hear right now are all, ‘We’ve never seen rats in the city like this before,” he said. “They’re all expressing the same concern: Our rat problem is worse than ever.”
Most cities know rat woes well. Washington, D.C., for instance, has burned through countless plans to stymie its longstanding “rat problem” or “rodent crisis,” in which disease-ridden critters are not only growing in number but ballooning to the size of human infants.
What they don’t know is how this all will end. Houston, Texas, is seeing a rat spike this year, and so is New York City. In Chicago, rodent complaints for the early part of the summer have increased about 9 percent from last year, forcing city officials to start sprinkling the streets with rat birth control. Philadelphia and Boston were recently ranked the two cities with the most rat sightings in the country. And it’s not just this year; as USA Today reported last year, major cities saw spikes in rodent-related business from 2013 to 2015. Calls to Orkin, the pest control service, were reportedly “up 61 percent in Chicago; 67 percent in Boston; 174 percent in San Francisco; 129 percent in New York City; and 57 percent in Washington, D.C.” It’s no surprise that rats thrive in cities, where humans provide an abundance of food and shelter. But experts now agree that the weather is playing a role in these recent increases. Extreme summer heat and this past winter’s mild temperatures have created urban rat utopias.
“The reason the rats are so bad now, we believe, is because of the warm winters,” said Gerard Brown, program manager of the Rodent and Vector Control Division of the D.C. Department of Health, at a 2016 rat summit.
Rat pro Corrigan agrees. “Breeding usually slows down during the winter months,” he said. But with shorter, warmer winters becoming more common—2016 was America’s warmest winter on record—rats are experiencing a baby boom. “They have an edge of squeezing out one more litter, one more half litter,” Corrigan said. One more litter or half litter makes a serious difference when a population boom is not only a nuisance, but a public health and economic crisis. Rats breed like rabbits; as this alarming Rentokil graphic shows, two rats in an ideal environment can turn into 482 million rats over a period of three years. Urban rats caused $19 billion worth of economic damage in the year 2000, partially due to the fact that they eat away at buildings and other infrastructure. Imagine how much they’re costing now."
- Emily Atkin, The New Republic (article published August 23, 2017)
'Rat In M' Kitchen' - UB40
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Post by Penn Guinn on Oct 22, 2022 20:32:15 GMT
There was a small spit of land right where the Verrezanno-Bridge is now (see Saturday Night Fever).. assorted garbage and flotsam and jetsam would be caught there and one could stand in the shore and watch the rats go about their business of cleaning up some of the human discards.
Funny how Squirrels are cute and encouraged to hang out by humans and wild rats are so disliked.
May have something to do with the tail !
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Post by enigma72 on Oct 22, 2022 20:48:04 GMT
Rat : human I love mathematical statistics!
Statistics can paint a picture. But they must be regularly updated.
"America Is on the Verge of Ratpocalypse.
Warmer weather is fueling a rodent surge, straining public health systems and the economy. It's time for the federal government to step in.
Bobby Corrigan is the rat master. Some call him the rat czar. To others, he is simply a rodentologist, or as NBC recently described him, “one of the nation’s leading experts on rats.” Call him what you want; he is mostly alarmed. “I travel all over the world with this animal, and the amount of complaints and feedback and questions I hear right now are all, ‘We’ve never seen rats in the city like this before,” he said. “They’re all expressing the same concern: Our rat problem is worse than ever.”
Most cities know rat woes well. Washington, D.C., for instance, has burned through countless plans to stymie its longstanding “rat problem” or “rodent crisis,” in which disease-ridden critters are not only growing in number but ballooning to the size of human infants.
What they don’t know is how this all will end. Houston, Texas, is seeing a rat spike this year, and so is New York City. In Chicago, rodent complaints for the early part of the summer have increased about 9 percent from last year, forcing city officials to start sprinkling the streets with rat birth control. Philadelphia and Boston were recently ranked the two cities with the most rat sightings in the country. And it’s not just this year; as USA Today reported last year, major cities saw spikes in rodent-related business from 2013 to 2015. Calls to Orkin, the pest control service, were reportedly “up 61 percent in Chicago; 67 percent in Boston; 174 percent in San Francisco; 129 percent in New York City; and 57 percent in Washington, D.C.” It’s no surprise that rats thrive in cities, where humans provide an abundance of food and shelter. But experts now agree that the weather is playing a role in these recent increases. Extreme summer heat and this past winter’s mild temperatures have created urban rat utopias.
“The reason the rats are so bad now, we believe, is because of the warm winters,” said Gerard Brown, program manager of the Rodent and Vector Control Division of the D.C. Department of Health, at a 2016 rat summit.
Rat pro Corrigan agrees. “Breeding usually slows down during the winter months,” he said. But with shorter, warmer winters becoming more common—2016 was America’s warmest winter on record—rats are experiencing a baby boom. “They have an edge of squeezing out one more litter, one more half litter,” Corrigan said. One more litter or half litter makes a serious difference when a population boom is not only a nuisance, but a public health and economic crisis. Rats breed like rabbits; as this alarming Rentokil graphic shows, two rats in an ideal environment can turn into 482 million rats over a period of three years. Urban rats caused $19 billion worth of economic damage in the year 2000, partially due to the fact that they eat away at buildings and other infrastructure. Imagine how much they’re costing now."
- Emily Atkin, The New Republic (article published August 23, 2017)
'Rat In M' Kitchen' - UB40
This makes so much sense! We have an invasion in our back yard! 🐀 Like penn said, everyone loves squirrels, no one loves rats! 🐿 |
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2022 21:01:00 GMT
Statistics can paint a picture. But they must be regularly updated.
"America Is on the Verge of Ratpocalypse ...
'Rat In M' Kitchen' - UB40
This makes so much sense! We have an invasion in our back yard! 🐀 Like penn said, everyone loves squirrels, no one loves rats! 🐿
Rats have had a raw deal throughout history. Rat lovers really love them and understand how intelligent they are. It's right to be wary in the cities as they're carriers but I like seeing river rats at work.
Garfield had a lot of issues with rats. There was argument over whether Squeak was a mouse or a rat living in the walls. But Garfield was also attacked by giant rats, alien rats, packs of rats ...
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