“Green rodent control” – what is it and how good is it?

Green rodent control program run by Tree House Humane Society

I continue to be impressed by the green rodent control program as operated by Treehouse Humane Society in Chicago. As you might expect, it’s a reference to putting feral cats back on the streets in locations where there is a perceived rat problem. The cats deter the rats and because nasty chemicals are not …

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Community cats put to work in Chicago

Chicago community cat with remains of a squirrel

In an overly dramatic headline on one news media website, the author states that “1,000 feral cats unleashed on Chicago’s streets to fight rat problem”. That is not quite the way it is because the Tree House Humane Society have a “Cats at Work” programme in which they employ community cats as a deterrent …

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Chicago cat shelter sells groups of feral cats for up to $600 to combat city’s rat problem

TNR'ed feral cats protect a brewery from rats

The CNN video tells us that Chicago has the worst rat problem in America. A lot of people think that domestic, stray and feral cats are not very effective at catching rats. It depends upon the individual cat but the important point to note here is that we are not discussing how effective feral …

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