Ratmageddon: Why rats are overrunning our cities

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• cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fucking long article can be summarised to a single paragraph of useful info. What a waste of time. This is why it’s increasingly difficult to read mainstream media editorials…

  There are many possible reasons for this. Niall Gallagher, technical manager at the BPCA, says our growing appetite for fast food (bins are overflowing with fast food waste), the fact some councils collect rubbish less frequently, as well as road and building works disturbing the sewer network, all contribute.

  But there is evidence that rising temperatures might also be at play.

  Land is disappearing like crazy, and we’re putting up buildings so we reduce their [rats] habitat in the wild

  rats can start breeding after nine weeks, meaning two rats can potentially create more than 1,000 offspring in a single year.

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  • finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think AI is probably responsible for the longer articles, tbh.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rats love cocaine. They will stop eating just to get more cocaine. Have they thought of trying cocaine?

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    • Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s an expensive way to bait a trap, and you’ll end up just catching bankers

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aren’t modern wheely bins pretty rat resistant compared to the old days of a plastic bag by the road?

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    • bassad@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most of bins here are plastic bags since long yearsbecause of terrorism treat.

      So sometimes you see a balancing bin, then an inhabitant with his 3-4 brothers and sisters jump out

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have a fox grazing spot at the back of my garden. Whilst they are pests, I have not seen a rat or a mouse in years.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe because we’re dumping food everywhere?

  It’s not exactly A Plague Tale: Requiem, is it? Even in Birmingham.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did Birmingham have a 3 day bin strike again?

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• Scribble902@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is how we get skaven

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• FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Glad we only get little mice up here. Even the bin strikes a while back didn’t seem to make any drastic impacts.

  I’ll take a lil cheesy boi over one of those cities infested with roaches and bedbugs top to bottom anyday.

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• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Really, UK? You really waited hundreds of years to tackle this issue?

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