Hawks are actually more adept at rat catching than cats.
Maybe pigeons just taste better
We’re going to need a bigger cat.
Forget cats. Too lazy. Hire Rat Terriers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Pyu-Cj0gg&frags=pl%2Cwn
Breed rat killers.
I’ve seen some big ass rats there. Kids take sticks and chase and kill rats for fun. They corner them and beat them to death. They don’t get them all however. Some of the more bad ass rats charge head long back at the kids. It’s pretty good fun to watch them scatter. Kind of like Rooster Cogburn.
The rats are much smarter than the cats.
Release German Shorthairs. They will take care of the rats and the cats.
“I don’t bother chasin’ mice around.....”
A full-grown rat’s incisors can often hold its own against a cat. Cats are good mousers, not great rat-catchers. There’s a reason people bred rat terriers.
As a cat owner (or more aptly as one owned by cats) I agree with the article.
I’ve watched our own cats just sit and watch mice play. For some reason or another they will go after a bird before a mouse.
I have no experience with rats (thank God), but they are considerably larger and do bite, which may put hesitation into the cat. And their willingness to kill is less likely if they are fed by people.
But I would say that the common rodent rats (Rattus norvegicus & rattus rattus)are not NYC’s biggest problems. The larger rat, democratus scummus, is much more threatening to mankind. The only effective weapon against this larger rat has been Donaldus Maximus.
I searched ‘ferrets used for ratting.’ I guess what some supposedly do is use a combo of ferret to flush rats out of burrows and terriers to kill the rats once they get flushed topside. I would think you would have to get the terriers used to the ferrets, ha.
Freegards
“In New York’s war between cats and rats, the rats win hands down...”
What about the 4 legged rats...we already know the democRATS have the upper hand in the Big Rotten Apple.
I don’t that anything can take out the fierce, nasty, aggressive, rather large rats of New York. They are everywhere. Not sure why they are not poisoning on a mass scale, because they eat mostly from the garbage bins.
Cobras do a really food job of rat control.
You got rats on the West Side
Bedbugs uptown
Use rat terriers.
most cats kill to eat and dont behaviorally seeking to just slaughter every rat near them (some dogs in the past were trained for that purpose)
maybe if these lazy city dwellers would clean up their environment ??
rats dont multiply so much if there isnt easy food for them