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Citizen complaint of the day: Rodents of unusual size menace Beacon Hill, Back Bay
By adamg on Mon, 10/05/2015 - 7:34am
A cowering citizen submitted this photo to buttress his complaint about Branch Street on Beacon Hill:
Huge rodent on street.
A concerned citizen complained about the rats on Gloucester Street between Boylston and Newbury:
Tons of rats running wild! I'm scared to even go to the trash!
And followed up seconds later with:
Large rats everywhere!!! Do something!!
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Momma Rat: 15,000 Babies a Year!
Thanks...
For the nightmares tonight!
What, you've never seen
WIllard?
These wimps wouldn't last two
These wimps wouldn't last two seconds in New York. You'd even see rats crossing the street when the lights change there.
Well, even people who work on
Well, even people who work on Wall Street have to get to their jobs somehow.
New York???
My hardened New Yorker parents were horrified at the number of rats in the Fenway/Kenmore/BU area, just wandering about the streets doing their rat business- which also included dead rats that had been dropped by a red-tailed hawk and had their guts explode from the fall.
Pfft
The rats don't wait for the lights here, just like everyone else.
I blame global warming.
I blame global warming.
I blame
I blame the sidewalk ramps.
The solution to the problem
The solution to the problem is more cats.
Obligatory:
Obligatory:
SKINNER
Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
LISA
But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
SKINNER
No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
LISA
But aren't the snakes even worse?
SKINNER
Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
LISA
But then we're stuck with gorillas!
SKINNER
No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
Do cats take on rats?
I know cats chase mice, but I'm not sure about rats.
The bodega cats in NYC are so
The bodega cats in NYC are so popular precisely because they keep the rats away.
they dont have to
The rats smell the cats and (usually) stay away. Those with poor olfactory senses dont last long enough to procreate.
Some cats do
My basement/outdoor cat has presented me with 3 rats this year (laid out at the bottom of the basement stairs) and several the year before that. They're usually not full adult size - but I think that's because the youngsters aren't cautious enough. (Like human teens! I see the same with the mice cats get - they tend to be not quite full grown.) The last one she got was a fair size. I don't know if they're from inside or out - she has a cat door.
Response:
No large dinosaur found on Branch Street. - Case Closed
Not as big as ones in the State House
or in DC
not too....
dramatic and overblown.
rodent?
that's clearly a bird.
Welcome to the city.
Welcome to the city.
At least they didn't use Godzilla
That would bring out the anti cultural appropriation protesters.
I thought
it was a space saver.
Too soon, too soon.
Too soon, too soon.