‘Rattiest City’ Combats Infestation By
Unleashing Over 1,000 Cats To Go After
Pests Like ‘Tom And Jerry’
Daily Caller,
by
Taylor Giles
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/12/2021 3:54:16 PM
An animal shelter in Chicago has released over 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets since 2012 to help fight the city’s rat infestation. The Tree House Humane Society spays or neuters the cats after capturing them and then releases the cats into residential and commercial areas, according to the shelter’s website. (Tweet) Chicago has been ranked number one on the “rattiest cities” list published by the pest control company Orkin for six years straight, according to WGN News.The cats released back to the streets are part of the Tree House Human Society’s Community Cats program. Cook County passed an ordinance in 2007 that allows the shelter to create managed
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/12/2021 3:57:34 PM (No. 783397)
You will get the rats. But what about the 'Rats?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/12/2021 4:03:46 PM (No. 783406)
No protests from PETA?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 5/12/2021 4:14:22 PM (No. 783418)
What would the thugs and gang members run from?
Work?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 5/12/2021 4:16:31 PM (No. 783425)
or an education, or a marriage license.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
panther361 5/12/2021 4:18:13 PM (No. 783427)
With NYC insanity and crap like this, I don't want to see anymore smart remarks about the west.
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Most cats won't take on rats as they are too large - they tend to go after mice. Also you will end up with areas that smell like a litter box that hasn't been taken care of with feral cats. In Mesa AZ they do the catch and release of feral cats and believe me the ammonia smell can get awful.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ribicon 5/12/2021 4:30:21 PM (No. 783448)
#6 is in accord with articles I've read. Rats put up too much of a fight, so instead feral cats (and even domestic cats allowed to roam free) cause great harm to birds, toads, and other useful animals while also dropping toxic urine and feces wherever they please, spreading toxoplasmosis and perhaps even triggering schizophrenia in humans. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/
There's even a species of birds that was wiped out by cats on an island, including one named Tibbles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/12/2021 4:34:26 PM (No. 783455)
#6 is correct. Cats are not going to tackle rats. Small Cotton rats maybe but not the big Chicago city rats. They could import pythons from the Everglades. They'll eat the rats and then freeze in the winter.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mobyclik 5/12/2021 4:42:37 PM (No. 783464)
Chicago? Right, get those rats but let the thugs, robbers, car jackers and murderers run free. Chicago? I don't care, they bring on their own misery with the nitwits they elect. Enjoy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
msjena 5/12/2021 4:55:02 PM (No. 783495)
Cats bury their poop so no worries. Also, these cats are neutered so their urine doesn't have the skunk-like smell of unneutered male cats. And, for the record, these cats could not survive if someone didn't feed them. They are not living on any small animals they might catch.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 5/12/2021 4:59:15 PM (No. 783499)
Have these people seen the size of some of these rats? I fear for the cats.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/12/2021 5:11:07 PM (No. 783510)
No wonder Chicago's murder rate has skyrocketed. Bunch of sour pusses who can't hear any songbirds singing.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/12/2021 5:12:18 PM (No. 783512)
then they'll complain that there are too many cats.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Tennman 5/12/2021 5:54:53 PM (No. 783545)
Why do I sense "Bart the Mother, Part 2"? What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
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This simply borders on insanity. For over a hundred years the goal was to rid the city of feral cats. And, yes, cats know the difference between a mouse and a rat. Our barn cat - an excellent mouser - has been hanging around the house lately and I discovered why just 2 nights ago. Not one, but at least a pair of rats have suddenly appeared.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 5/12/2021 6:16:14 PM (No. 783559)
Now, if they could just get the feral gangbangers to shoot rats instead of each other...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 5/12/2021 6:23:48 PM (No. 783568)
Will this end well?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/12/2021 6:24:31 PM (No. 783569)
How about you spay or neuter the RATS.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
subal 5/12/2021 6:50:26 PM (No. 783596)
Well, there goes the democrat voter base!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
padiva 5/12/2021 8:23:43 PM (No. 783652)
Hmm, How about if the local prisoners build rat traps. Get a few rats and then incinerate the cage and the contents. Perhaps a great work release program?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2021 9:29:26 PM (No. 783706)
A shame that they can't release 1,000 tigers to take care of the really big rats that infest Chicago.
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DCGIRL 5/13/2021 4:58:44 AM (No. 783905)
Wow, hope all the cats are spayed and neutered. You don't want this city to be overcome by 10 million cats. What could go wrong with this logic....alot. When I worked in DC, I saw rats as big as cats. No cat is going to tackle a rat that size. Cats like those little mice. Plus the urine smell gets pretty bad. I believe Chicago is setting themselves up for another problem.
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