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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsREGARDLESS of what you think of Trump, you WILL be inspired by this new photo of his Cabinet.
American Is Infested With Rats and Some of Them Are the Size of Infants
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/climatedesk-warmer-weather-ratpocalypse/
Bobby Corrigan is the rat master. Some call him the rat czar. To others, he is simply a rodentologist, or as NBC recently described him, one of the nations leading experts on rats. Call him what you want; he is mostly alarmed. I travel all over the world with this animal, and the amount of complaints and feedback and questions I hear right now are all, Weve never seen rats in the city like this before, he said. Theyre all expressing the same concern: Our rat problem is worse than ever.
Most cities know rat woes well. Washington, D.C., for instance, has burned through countless plans to stymie its longstanding rat problem or rodent crisis, in which disease-ridden critters are not only growing in number but ballooning to the size of human infants.
What they dont know is how this all will end. Houston, Texas, is seeing a rat spike this year, and so is New York City. In Chicago, rodent complaints for the early part of the summer have increased about 9 percent from last year, forcing city officials to start sprinkling the streets with rat birth control. Philadelphia and Boston were recently ranked the two cities with the most rat sightings in the country. And its not just this year; as USA Today reported last year, major cities saw spikes in rodent-related business from 2013 to 2015. Calls to Orkin, the pest control service, were reportedly up 61 percent in Chicago; 67 percent in Boston; 174 percent in San Francisco; 129 percent in New York City; and 57 percent in Washington, D.C.
Its no surprise that rats thrive in cities, where humans provide an abundance of food and shelter. But experts now agree that the weather is playing a role in these recent increases. Extreme summer heat and this past winters mild temperatures have created urban rat utopias.
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REGARDLESS of what you think of Trump, you WILL be inspired by this new photo of his Cabinet. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2017
OP
You gave me one of the few laughs of the day, thank you. In Mexico City in the early 80's
fierywoman
Aug 2017
#3
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. So you saying the blond rat is Trump?
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)2. That makes perfect sense, right?
fierywoman
(7,706 posts)3. You gave me one of the few laughs of the day, thank you. In Mexico City in the early 80's
rats were the size of medium (40#) dogs.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. He likes to fill his cabinet with people who look like him.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)5. Size of infants? Try grown-ass adults.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)6. Houston rats are in for a wee surprise in the next day or 2. n/t
zeusdogmom
(999 posts)7. Ooh - wished you had warned me
Rats really creep me out.
Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)8. Rats are intelligent creatures. Trump Inc., not so much.