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

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • Rats carry diseases and disgust many of us. What’s troubling is the rat population is exploding in many communities around the state.
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  • @MelloPintor
    @MelloPintor Год назад +8

    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
    @kds365 Год назад +15

    Plant mint around your house, they hate it.

    • @harleyme3163
      @harleyme3163 Год назад +4

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

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Год назад

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

  • @ericsmith3765
    @ericsmith3765 Год назад +7

    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

  • @TamagoHead
    @TamagoHead Год назад +8

    More cats = less rats.

  • @chino3796
    @chino3796 Год назад +8

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

  • @Royale_with_Cheeze
    @Royale_with_Cheeze Год назад +14

    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
      @measlesplease1266 Год назад +6

      Did a rat type this?

    • @G3RM3X617
      @G3RM3X617 Год назад +1

      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
      @eileeneclark9011 Год назад +2

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

    • @cobanus2862
      @cobanus2862 Год назад +1

      Vermintide!

    • @boogieluv247
      @boogieluv247 Год назад +1

      @@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.

  • @EARTHLYANGEL1111
    @EARTHLYANGEL1111 Год назад +5

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

  • @ianpodmore9666
    @ianpodmore9666 Год назад +6

    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
      @DBMorris Год назад +2

      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
      @ianpodmore9666 Год назад +3

      @@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
      @DBMorris Год назад

      @@ianpodmore9666 all true! I love them!

    • @LewDanLascivious8276
      @LewDanLascivious8276 Год назад

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

  • @Rafael-oi6dj
    @Rafael-oi6dj Год назад +7

    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
    @snorfallupagus6014 Год назад +10

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

  • @peterwilliamson8721
    @peterwilliamson8721 Год назад +23

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

    • @spankmode
      @spankmode Год назад +3

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

    • @Richard-wh9wm
      @Richard-wh9wm Год назад

      @@spankmodeoooooh - so clever.

    • @LewDanLascivious8276
      @LewDanLascivious8276 Год назад

      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
      @rosanneshinkle4133 Год назад

      Best comment so far. Bravo!

    • @brent69
      @brent69 Год назад

      Ben???

  • @JoseSentegos-sb8hd
    @JoseSentegos-sb8hd Год назад +3

    😊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
      @DBMorris Год назад +1

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

  • @AntiFreezePeach
    @AntiFreezePeach Год назад +1

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

  • @johnboberg8121
    @johnboberg8121 Год назад +3

    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
      @soejuatti Год назад

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

  • @rosanneshinkle4133
    @rosanneshinkle4133 Год назад +3

    Retired politicians turning into rats.

  • @michaelanthony508
    @michaelanthony508 Год назад +2

    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
      @captainmurphy4720 Год назад +1

      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.

  • @congerthomas1812
    @congerthomas1812 Год назад +1

    It is a direct reflection of a society!

  • @firestorm8471
    @firestorm8471 Год назад +2

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

  • @intpleb4206
    @intpleb4206 Год назад +3

    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
      @wueen Год назад

      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
      @DBMorris Год назад

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

  • @ericsmith3765
    @ericsmith3765 Год назад +7

    Blame it on Covid lol

  • @deadeyeddanny
    @deadeyeddanny Год назад +5

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

    • @boogieluv247
      @boogieluv247 Год назад +1

      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
      @DBMorris Год назад

      ​@@boogieluv247 ✊

  • @everclearr
    @everclearr Год назад +7

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

    • @LewDanLascivious8276
      @LewDanLascivious8276 Год назад

      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
      @LewDanLascivious8276 Год назад

      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
      @everclearr Год назад +1

      @@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

  • @rlm9825
    @rlm9825 Год назад +3

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

  • @mattcreamer2157
    @mattcreamer2157 Год назад +3

    Homeless people that's ot

  • @commentandlikedistributor
    @commentandlikedistributor Год назад +1

    Ultra sonic sound repellant proximity triggered

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n Год назад +1

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

  • @oldsaerotech1167
    @oldsaerotech1167 Год назад

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

  • @harleyme3163
    @harleyme3163 Год назад +1

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

  • @laurabedford5095
    @laurabedford5095 Год назад +1

    FAST FOOD everywhere , litter and waste

  • @alicewright4322
    @alicewright4322 Год назад

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

  • @bayougtr
    @bayougtr Год назад +1

    Ahh, Brookline was overrun with rats before the pandemic.

    • @Richard-wh9wm
      @Richard-wh9wm Год назад

      Your delusion keeps you warm at night huh little one!

  • @TK-cl1jm
    @TK-cl1jm Год назад +2

    Forcing everyone to mulch garbage is part of the issue.

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Год назад

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

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard8865 Год назад

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

  • @Bebedollie
    @Bebedollie Год назад +1

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

    • @daniellevin3056
      @daniellevin3056 Год назад

      They bigger than my pet 🐕 Chihuahua

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Год назад

      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

  • @E27446
    @E27446 Год назад +4

    The rats all Gather in the Statehouse

    • @spankmode
      @spankmode Год назад +2

      And the white house 😂

  • @thomasmcqueeney6877
    @thomasmcqueeney6877 Год назад

    The big one half way thru is a muskrat

  • @mikeappignani4383
    @mikeappignani4383 4 месяца назад

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

  • @shanenoel1270
    @shanenoel1270 Год назад +2

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

  • @nakiaboyr6196
    @nakiaboyr6196 Год назад +1

    Probably because they're having baby rats.

  • @jsb354
    @jsb354 Год назад

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

  • @willmorrisusa
    @willmorrisusa Год назад

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

  • @laurabedford5095
    @laurabedford5095 Год назад

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

  • @user-wo3pe1pw7j
    @user-wo3pe1pw7j 3 месяца назад

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

  • @lastcommodore9651
    @lastcommodore9651 Год назад +1

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

  • @demonorse
    @demonorse Год назад

    Not enough predators.

  • @Loadrunner620
    @Loadrunner620 Год назад +1

    GLUE TRAPS

  • @EyesWideOpen1969
    @EyesWideOpen1969 Год назад

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

  • @onlythewise1
    @onlythewise1 Год назад

    always been a problem is rats

  • @YellowCase2024
    @YellowCase2024 Год назад

    Tell us more Elizabeth 😊

  • @craigerskine3609
    @craigerskine3609 Год назад +2

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

    • @spankmode
      @spankmode Год назад

      They voted for him 😂

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Год назад

      ​​@@spankmode who's him?🤡

  • @laurabedford5095
    @laurabedford5095 Год назад

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

  • @0159ralph
    @0159ralph Год назад +1

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

  • @andrewheynig2721
    @andrewheynig2721 Год назад

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

  • @1ACL
    @1ACL Год назад

    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
      @here_we_go_again2571 Год назад +1

      Keeping cats inside is
      better for the songbird
      population.

    • @maxpower1337
      @maxpower1337 Год назад +1

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

  • @patchez058
    @patchez058 Год назад

    The vermintide begins. Yes-yes.

  • @willbostonwillboston7636
    @willbostonwillboston7636 Год назад +4

    Woke way to kill rats?

  • @joemama142
    @joemama142 Год назад +8

    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
      @maralonent6257 Год назад +2

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

  • @JamesSmith-ij8nj
    @JamesSmith-ij8nj Год назад

    Wait, I thought they were referring to democRATS.

  • @juanr1128
    @juanr1128 Год назад

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

  • @Al_capachino
    @Al_capachino 15 дней назад

    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.

  • @kellypbr7742
    @kellypbr7742 Год назад +1

    They're not rats, they're Dems.

  • @maryjones2315
    @maryjones2315 Год назад

    Over flow from NYC

  • @Sksk27547
    @Sksk27547 Год назад

    All port cities can get this

  • @caseyphilips3007
    @caseyphilips3007 Год назад +2

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

    • @sanniepstein4835
      @sanniepstein4835 Год назад

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

  • @raremoney6278
    @raremoney6278 Год назад

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

  • @sfranklin9073
    @sfranklin9073 Год назад

    All of Brad Marchand's minions.

  • @blaq7892
    @blaq7892 Год назад

    For one they are feeding them out trash cans.

  • @openyoureyes3969
    @openyoureyes3969 Год назад

    1:48 Muskrat

  • @ericsuhr476
    @ericsuhr476 Год назад

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

  • @EARTHLYANGEL1111
    @EARTHLYANGEL1111 Год назад

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

  • @ghostmanscores1666
    @ghostmanscores1666 Год назад +1

    They all vote blue.

  • @markl5562
    @markl5562 7 месяцев назад

    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?

  • @stevenbowman7766
    @stevenbowman7766 Год назад +1

    They have escaped from the Democrats ???

  • @est8793
    @est8793 Год назад

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

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 Год назад +2

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

  • @martinpalm5
    @martinpalm5 Год назад

    They follow the Dzms around

  • @FixedFace
    @FixedFace Год назад +1

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

  • @bostonsurfingmoviechannel6313
    @bostonsurfingmoviechannel6313 Год назад

    Who cares,it's Lynn?...

  • @NicThatOneKid
    @NicThatOneKid Год назад

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

  • @ericsuhr476
    @ericsuhr476 Год назад

    Awe .no poison..haha

  • @markhugo8270
    @markhugo8270 Год назад +1

    Demonrats!

  • @stewarta5993
    @stewarta5993 Год назад

    get a bunch of cats

  • @maxpower1337
    @maxpower1337 Год назад +2

    Rat birth control.

  • @willmorrisusa
    @willmorrisusa Год назад

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

  • @pamela9662
    @pamela9662 3 месяца назад

    Hire Rat dogs

  • @ericsuhr476
    @ericsuhr476 Год назад

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

  • @tomwoehle3519
    @tomwoehle3519 Год назад

    Get a cat.

  • @thoughtsfromathenasreality
    @thoughtsfromathenasreality Год назад +3

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

    • @Richard-wh9wm
      @Richard-wh9wm Год назад +1

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

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Год назад +1

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

  • @alanritter6300
    @alanritter6300 Год назад

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

  • @bionicman1921
    @bionicman1921 Год назад +1

    Ya Republicans are every where !

  • @chrischoir3594
    @chrischoir3594 Год назад

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

  • @meyatetana2973
    @meyatetana2973 Год назад

    what do we do about human infestations? :P

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n Год назад

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