Why so many rats? Growing number of Massachusetts communities being overrun by pesky rodents

[@MelloPintor]

A few years back I worked with a company dealing with this issue, we developed a system that was poison less and didn't leave a bunch of dead rats around, we did a lot of work in the commons and some genius called and complained that our system was "inhumane" and so the city stopped us so the problem continues We Americans don't have a proper way to dispose of food, leaving it in flimsy plastic containers for days at a time is practically asking for rats, this problem is going to take a massive effort from just about everyone involved and we will have to get comfortable with the idea that rats are just rats and that our health comes first

[@kds365]

Plant mint around your house, they hate it.

[@harleyme3163]

or just poison some food and leave it in a spot the normally travel.... never mind being nice

[@DBMorris]

​@@harleyme3163 poison spreads to birds and cats and anything else that ingests the rats.

[@rlm9825]

Eat your food and stop throwing it out to the rats.

[@chino3796]

All the digging they been doing has the rats stirred up. Specially in Somerville/Cambridge.

[@ericsmith3765]

The lady spent all that money on the hardware cloth "Barrier" but if you watch the video it's still open above the lattice lol

[@ghostmanscores1666]

She got robbed

[@TamagoHead]

More cats = less rats.

[@roccosal683]

Haitans ate all the cats

[@Royale_with_Cheeze]

There are more rats than people and more cockroaches than rats. Rats are afraid of humans because we are much larger than they are. If they knew their power in numbers, they could overtake us. If 8 rats jumped on you all at once, climbing up your pant legs and everywhere else on your body, who wins? If they only knew, this could be their world.

[@measlesplease1266]

Did a rat type this?

[@G3RM3X617]

Your hilarious. If bugs could think that way they could do the same. If all animals just started attacking humans and said we tired of them.

[@eileeneclark9011]

3/25/23...CREEPY IDEA BUT MOST PROBABLY 99% TRUE! UGH!

[@cobanus2862]

Vermintide!

[@boogieluv247]

@@measlesplease1266 😂😂😂 I went back and read it, trying side with the rats as a roach. 😂😂😂😂 It sounds like roaches trying to give rats a war rally.

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

Retired politicians turning into rats.

[@Rafael-oi6dj]

A lot of food sold in supermarkets is totally indigestable(including bread) due to adulteration & poor inspection, causing people to throw it away; rats won't have any problem to digest it

[@snorfallupagus6014]

What's so surprising? It's Ratsachussetts, after all.

[@peterwilliamson8721]

Try feeding the rats fast food if that doesn't work give them a covid shot.

[@spankmode]

dr Fauchi told the rats he will give them cash money if they take the shot

[@Richard-wh9wm]

@@spankmodeoooooh - so clever.

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

It's simple, the rich get richer because they make it harder on the middle class to survive because money runs the world (not politicians) and in turn it creates more and more poor people and then more of those people end up on the streets and then you end up with way more garbage than usual and then the rats and mice come out to clean up the human mess, so there you have it blame it on the rich and bill them for the mess.🤑🤑🤑🐀🐀🐁🐁😂

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

Best comment so far. Bravo!

[@brent69]

Ben???

[@ianpodmore9666]

Invest in a Jack Russel terrier or any other terrier for that matter. If you have ever seen a JR and how it can kill a hundred rats in one mad burst of energy, you will know what I mean. End of Rat problem.

[@DBMorris]

That's no sh*t! I had a JR and he was a beast! He killed anything that moved even whooped a coyotes ass in my backyard one day. The coydog thought he was going to make a lunch out of Busta I couldn't get him in time but it didn't matter Busta toe that son to shreds. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. I shot the coyote as he was running away. Took him to a vet to get him tested for rabies thankfully he was clean and Busta lives to fight another day

[@ianpodmore9666]

@@DBMorris People underestimate Jack Russell's because they are small. But they don't mess about when it comes to disposing of vermin and if challenged a lot bigger things as you can attest too. There's a reason why they call them the smallest big dog in the world. Once riled up they take no prisoners.

[@DBMorris]

@@ianpodmore9666 all true! I love them!

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

Or just quit being messy and they won't come out and clean up your garbage.

[@AntiFreezePeach]

Once I saw a whole field full of rats I thought I was tripping.

[@johnboberg8121]

The guy who said cornmeal and baking soda is right anything else that eats it will mostly be okay unlike poisonous chemicals put it out in a heavy grid pattern advancing 3/4 of a block leaving 25 percent continuous overlap baking soda and cornmeal are pretty inexpensive and easily replenished within 90 days the problem will be to a manageable situation

[@soejuatti]

Doesn't work on rats, they can't burp but they can fart. It does work on mice.

[@JoseSentegos-sb8hd]

😊one key to increase o rats and mice. Is the trash and food people leave out where rodents have access to water and food scraps! Plus. Unclean human habits as far as not sealing and controlling trash and leftover food will keep the problem unsolvable,so clean up people !

[@DBMorris]

Having too mulch there garbage does not help at all. The government needs to rethink their garbage policies

[@EARTHLYANGEL1111]

Baking soda, corn meal. Mixture.. they eat it and can not BURP.

[@roccosal683]

Not if they eat out of dumpsters

[@lastcommodore9651]

Put more stray cats in the infested areas. I have seen this work successfully in my city.

[@ericsmith3765]

Blame it on Covid lol

[@ghostmanscores1666]

The rats declined the 4th booster.

[@laurabedford5095]

FAST FOOD everywhere , litter and waste

[@congerthomas1812]

It is a direct reflection of a society!

[@nakiaboyr6196]

Probably because they're having baby rats.

[@everclearr]

I think the rats exploded in numbers since the restaurants started the outdoor dining

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

It's simple, the rich get richer because they make it harder on the middle class to survive because money runs the world (not politicians) and in turn it creates more and more poor people and then more of those people end up on the streets and then you end up with way more garbage than usual and then the rats and mice come out to clean up the human mess, so there you have it blame it on the rich and bill them for the mess.🤑🤑🤑🐀🐀🐁🐁😂

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

Maybe all the rats will get a hold of some nuclear waste tainted food from some of these train derailments that have happened around the country lately or some super growth hormones and grow real real large like the size of a house like in the movie "The food of the Gods" and then rampage the cities and then make it a true to life movie and call it "Ratzilla".🐀🐀🐀😂

[@everclearr]

@@LewDanLascivious8276 that's scary af to even imagine, especially since that would mean all the mites, ticks, fleas, etc that live off of rodent’s nuclear-tainted blood would also become ginormous

[@michaelanthony508]

The rats are from all the public housing. Those people live like animals. They throw all their fast food garbage everywhere except the trash

[@captainmurphy4720]

SECTION 8 MAKES IT CREEP OUT INTO NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE NOT HAD RATS IN LIVING MEMORY TOO. ONCE THEY SOIL EVERYTHING ENOUGH THEY WILL COMPLAIN THEY WERENT GIVEN GOOD ENOUGH FREE HOUSING EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NICE BEFORE THEY GOT THERE.

[@firestorm8471]

Employee Air Rifle armed exterminators with thermal Scopes. That will be FAR more effective than electronic traps.

[@deadeyeddanny]

thats what im saying.. noone has morals anymore.. everyone out for themselves. 🙂

[@boogieluv247]

Ain’t nobody tryin to be in no cage or get executed. Or if people actually did their jobs, then it wouldn’t be such a big issue. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@DBMorris]

​@@boogieluv247 ✊

[@mattcreamer2157]

Homeless people that's ot

[@intpleb4206]

2:37 So, what's the birth control program? Not the poison, and not the electrified chamber boxes, so what is the proposed birth control program??

[@wueen]

Google rat birth control. ..syntec.....it works. Its 85 initial for heavy box and thereafter 40 a month once birth liquid is drank. ...I use it

[@DBMorris]

They go to family planning and get abortions 🤣😂🤣😂

[@oldsaerotech1167]

NEVER thought I'd see this in Brookline! NEVER!

[@A3Kr0n]

What do you bet those rats boxes come with an eye watering software subscription?

[@commentandlikedistributor]

Ultra sonic sound repellant proximity triggered

[@harleyme3163]

more garbage? no no....your unwillingness to kill the damn things.

[@kellypbr7742]

They're not rats, they're Dems.

[@craigerskine3609]

Same thing happening in Portland Maine, democrats love rat's

[@spankmode]

They voted for him 😂

[@DBMorris]

​​@@spankmode who's him?🤡

[@alicewright4322]

There's a poem I read in which the rat becomes the unit of currency...

[@Bebedollie]

They say in New York city the rats are bigger than the cats

[@daniellevin3056]

They bigger than my pet 🐕 Chihuahua

[@DBMorris]

That's a bit of an exaggeration. But they are big and they are many. I used to work in trash fired power plants. The f*cking things were all over the place

[@0159ralph]

AH RATS !! I think this problem goes back to the Ted Kennedy days...

[@bayougtr]

Ahh, Brookline was overrun with rats before the pandemic.

[@Richard-wh9wm]

Your delusion keeps you warm at night huh little one!

[@mikeappignani4383]

I was in A Restaurant in Somerville .And There was A Rat infestation. Awful 😖 😱 😨 😰 😖

[@stevenbowman7766]

They have escaped from the Democrats ???

[@frankblangeard8865]

The animal at 1:48 is not a rat. That is a nutria.🐭

[@Loadrunner620]

GLUE TRAPS

[@TK-cl1jm]

Forcing everyone to mulch garbage is part of the issue.

[@DBMorris]

Something like this always has something to do with the government . I was wondering what it was this time. You just explained why. Thanks

[@FixedFace]

living in a rainbow nation intensifies 🏳️‍🌈👰🏾‍♂️🫃🏾🕌✊🏾💉🦠😷🇺🇦

[@YellowCase2024]

Tell us more Elizabeth 😊

[@thomasmcqueeney6877]

The big one half way thru is a muskrat

[@ghostmanscores1666]

They all vote blue.

[@jsb354]

Why all the rats?!! *NOT ENOUGH CATS!!*

[@markhugo8270]

Demonrats!

[@patchez058]

The vermintide begins. Yes-yes.

[@SamK-w9p]

I never walk on the sidewalk during trash nite in Dorchester. Your bound to have a rat jump out..

[@laurabedford5095]

Rats can get through a hole 2 inches wide , under doors , their bones flatten , cats keep them away

[@andrewheynig2721]

During Solor minimum rodents multiply. This is the weather that they like.

[@demonorse]

Not enough predators.

[@shanenoel1270]

In Canada they use dry ice to fill up holes/tunnels. They best thing is birth control though.

[@E27446]

The rats all Gather in the Statehouse

[@spankmode]

And the white house 😂

[@laurabedford5095]

Theres a rat a metre away from everyone, their everywhere, cats people, leave toilet seats down weighted down .

[@EyesWideOpen1969]

Funny enough birds of a feather flock together MA...

[@1ACL]

They should bring in some "fisher-cats" from Western Massachusetts. Those giant weasels eat everything and anything in a large radius. Just keep your cats inside because they'll eat those, too.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Keeping cats inside is better for the songbird population.

[@maxpower1337]

We would need a lot of Fisher cats and they are noisy but sounds good 👍.

[@onlythewise1]

always been a problem is rats

[@juanr1128]

Lol, that’s what Mass/ Bostonians get for talking trash about NYC’s rats

[@willbostonwillboston7636]

Woke way to kill rats?

[@Richard-wh9wm]

Huh!

[@roccosal683]

The radicals don't believe in poison. So don't forget.

[@JamesSmith-ij8nj]

Wait, I thought they were referring to democRATS.

[@ericsuhr476]

Can't they learn to eat them..??.I mean they do eat clams ..come on?

[@Al_capachino]

Brookline is the worst when it comes to rat infestation, residents need to stop crying and let the trash guys do their job. They’re out there early because it’s safer for them and you, less traffic, less people, in and out. It gets the waste out sooner.

[@sfranklin9073]

All of Brad Marchand's minions.

[@maryjones2315]

Over flow from NYC

[@blaq7892]

For one they are feeding them out trash cans.

[@joemama142]

The time delayed poison is fine, this is a city not a forest. There is plenty of nature somewhere else. I just clean every last bit of food around the place and leave poison bars out for them.

[@maralonent6257]

There are still many innocent wild animals living in it. Don’t use poison.

[@Sksk27547]

All port cities can get this

[@EARTHLYANGEL1111]

California is getting bad. 1 ran across my foot in backyard

[@caseyphilips3007]

Predators in cities 😂😂😂.. Poison... Poison Poison Poison.

[@sanniepstein4835]

You'll poison the dogs and cats that could control them.

[@NicThatOneKid]

Don’t feed the cats 🐈 they won’t eat the rats 😂

[@raremoney6278]

THAT BIRTH CONTROL HAS BEEN USE LIKE ABOUT3 YEARS AGO I DONT RECALL WERE BUT IS IN MOTION AS WE SPEAK

[@thoughtsfromathenasreality]

Because people are killing too many wolves and other predators who used to eat mice and rats.

[@Richard-wh9wm]

By golly you’re on to something here. We need more wolves in Brookline for sure.

[@DBMorris]

I'm sure the good people of Brookline want wolves roaming the streets. That shouldn't lead to any problems 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@ericsuhr476]

Awe .no poison..haha

[@markl5562]

leave food including pet food and birdseed out in the open and you will have mice and/or rats, guaranteed. Rats in particular are very lazy in that they set up shop close by to where their food source is. If your yard isn't full of food, guess where they're not headed?

[@est8793]

& people wonder why I hate cities, sorry its small towns & suburbs for me.

[@openyoureyes3969]

1:48 Muskrat

[@bostonsurfingmoviechannel6313]

Who cares,it's Lynn?...

[@martinpalm5]

They follow the Dzms around

[@dougg1075]

No, leave those rats alone:) Get used to it, it’s gonna get worse.

[@pamela9662]

Hire Rat dogs

[@maxpower1337]

Rat birth control.

[@stewarta5993]

get a bunch of cats

[@willmorrisusa]

This is great for the local economy ! 😊 ..... Think of all the money being spent ! Exterminators & Rat Trap Companies are " Making a Killing " ! 😂

[@tomwoehle3519]

Get a cat.

[@ericsuhr476]

COVID and construction. Hahaha ..my god . people actually believe this crap

[@alanritter6300]

Oh sweet this I like couldn’t happen to a better place

[@willmorrisusa]

Wow ! $ 4,000 to try & stop the rat infestation. Sheeesh ! Let's hope she doesn't end up in the Poor House. 😞

[@bionicman1921]

Ya Republicans are every where !

[@chrischoir3594]

I wonder if the Russia war had anything to do with this?

[@meyatetana2973]

what do we do about human infestations? :P

[@A3Kr0n]

Heebie-jeebies. plural noun: jitters, creeps Coined by Billy DeBeck, a 1942 American cartoonist