New Yorkers can decrease their chances of encountering plus-sized varmints by avoiding dumpsters and other convenient rat buffets. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Science. We have rats that are entering homes. They carry disease. Rat Trap, Inc. Unlike other conventional attempts to combat the growing rat population in New York City and the greater New York area — including the use of dangerous traps, pesticides, and poisons — Rat Trap, Inc.
The system involves an electromechanical machine that attracts rat and mice with natural feed and other food substances as opposed to artificial and potentially harmful bait. Robert Corrigan, a New York urban rodentologist who has guided several mayors on their anti-rat initiatives.
Last week, a resident from Mariana Bracetti Plaza in the East Village — one of the developments included in de Blasio's anti-rat plan — posted a video to Instagram that went viral. In it, rats were plundering the pile of trash outside her window so voraciously that it woke her up. A spokesperson for the New York Housing Authority said that inspectors had responded to the infestation and that no recent leptospirosis infections had been reported at its properties. Richard Reynolds knows all too well the problem of rats repeatedly returning to a pile of garbage.
Reynolds leads a double-life: By day, he's an American Kennel Club certified dog show judge. By night, he runs a volunteer group of rat-hunting dog-owners, becoming a version of Batman responding to calls from desperate city residents. He gets complaints from public housing projects "constantly," often to the same trash cans. Most Friday nights, for over thirty years, he makes the trip into New York from his home in New Jersey to lead rat-hunting trips with his terriers.
The resulting spectacle is not for the squeamish, as fresh blood streams from the dogs' mouths and maggot-infested rat carcasses are dragged out into the open. Like others, Reynolds is well aware that ridding New York City of rats is an uphill battle. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. In the footage captured by Barrett, the bird can be seen swallowing the rat whole in a few seconds, while standing in the pond. One social media user asked whether the rat was still alive while it was being swallowed. But in a response, Barrett said that the small mammal was dead and had likely been "speared" by the heron and possibly then drowned. Barrett told Newsweek that he had come to Central Park to shoot wildlife photos and videos, when he saw a "promising scene" on the east side of the pond, near 60th and Fifth Avenue.
It appears longer in my video because I used slow-motion replay," he said. Barrett said he had never seen a great blue heron eating a rat before, although he has seen a black-crowned night heron consuming one. The diet of the great blue heron consists mostly of fish, but Barrett said they will eat pretty much anything they can catch, commonly frogs, crayfish and crabs.
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