{"id":15158,"date":"2020-06-25T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dogs-are-joining-the-fight-against-nycs-coronavirus-rat-problem\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:51:00","slug":"dogs-are-joining-the-fight-against-nycs-coronavirus-rat-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dogs-are-joining-the-fight-against-nycs-coronavirus-rat-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dogs are joining the fight against NYC\u2019s coronavirus rat problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dogs are joining the fight against NYC\u2019s coronavirus rat problem<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Man\u2019s best friend = rat\u2019s worst enemy.<\/p>\n

New York City has turned to an unlikely ally in the fight against the city\u2019s mounting rodent problem: pet dogs.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Big App<\/a>le\u2019s resident rat population has become even more aggressive during the coronavirus lockdown due to the shortage of trash caused by shuttered restaurants. To combat the scourge, a group known as Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society (R.A.T.S.), is enlisting concerned citizens and their beloved pooches to track down and kill the pesky pests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a policy: Any time we get a call or an email or anything, we at least go check it out,\u201d Richard Reynolds, who founded R.A.T.S. almost 30 years ago, tells The Post. The group even does house calls.<\/p>\n

But right now, NYC has an especially \u201chuge rat problem,\u201d R.A.T.S. volunteer James Hoffman tells Cheddar news<\/a> service, adding that this enables them to do what they do best. Which is, according to the their Facebook<\/a> page, recruiting \u201cBorder Terriers, Norfolk Terriers, Fox Terriers and Dachshunds\u201d and other rat-catching breeds to \u201cseek and destroy vermin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vigilante group ventures out regularly in response to any citizen\u2019s or even city official\u2019s call, and sicks their furry exterminators on the vermin until the problem is no more.<\/p>\n

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Rommel, a Jagdterrier owned by Richard Reynolds.<\/span>Bill Reyna<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reynolds says any breed of dog can join the hunt, however some canines are better equipped to cull rats than others. \u201cTerriers have an innate sense to do this, it\u2019s in their genes,\u201d Reynolds says.<\/p>\n

Others require more practice. In one of the more hilarious mishaps, one hapless rat catcher\u00a0caught a bagel and not a rat during his first outing, reports Cheddar.<\/p>\n

And the pest-purging pups work best in a pack with one of the usually smaller, \u201cpointer pooches\u201d flushing out the rats while the other dogs surround the critter and kill it.<\/p>\n

Setting the hounds on other animals might sound barbaric, but it\u2019s more effective than poison or glue traps, reports Cheddar. Indeed, rat terriers, which were a fixture on farms in the early 1900s, can reportedly cull 100 varmints in one day, reports Modern Farmer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re offering a very quick, not painless to be sure, but at least quick and merciful death,\u201d says Reynolds of the unorthodox pest control measure.<\/p>\n

Still, while hunting rats is not illegal in NYC, getting permission is difficult, which means the group must operate covertly. Reynolds equates their modus operandi to \u201cMission Impossible\u201d where \u201cthe guy would go into the phone booth and the phone would ring and it says this tape will self-destruct in five minutes and we don\u2019t even know you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s kind of the way we work with the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, the ruff-riding rat hunters have got their work cut out for them in the time of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the redistribution of the food supply the rats are redistributing,\u201d Reynolds tells the Post, referencing the COVID-caused restaurant closures. \u201cSo let\u2019s say we hunted a dumpster out behind a given restaurant, we don\u2019t hunt there anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even worse, in the absence of trash, many rodents are turning eating their own kind: \u201cThese rats are fighting with one another; now the adults are killing the young in the nest and cannibalizing the pups,\u201d says Bobby Corrigan, a rodentologist who specializes in urban vermin.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, R.A.T.S. is hoping to stem the plague in a way that benefits both man and dog. \u201cWe help out the community secondary to it,\u201d says R.A.T.S. volunteer James Hoffman. \u201cFirst is for the dogs, second we help out people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Richard Reynolds (left), Bill Reyna, Jimmy Hoffman and Jason Riveira of R.A.T.S.<\/span>Bill Reyna<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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