{"id":1983,"date":"2017-05-23T04:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2017-05-23T04:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:28:25","slug":"newsday-tuesday-cats-cleaning-up-the-rat-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 Cats Cleaning Up the Rat-Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1620\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1620\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/95Birthday-020-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/95Birthday-020-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/95Birthday-020-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/95Birthday-020-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chicago is known as the rattiest city in the country. Some businesses and neighborhoods are simply overrun with gnawing, disease-spreading rats. Evidently, this problem is beyond the capability of professional pest control and many business owners and home owners have called in the big guns\u2014cats. They\u2019ve recruited some of the 3,600 cats in 650 colonies around the city for help.<\/p>\n<p>The Tree-House Humane Society, who manages the colonies, will deliver cats to the property along with a cushy crate \u201capartment\u201d for the cats (so they\u2019ll want to stick around) and they say that they\u2019ve had nearly 100% effectiveness in ridding these areas of rats. Some of the rats are eaten and some leave when they sense there are cats about.<\/p>\n<p>Makes sense. Cats were the world\u2019s first pest control, having been relied upon for their hunting prowess some 10,000 years ago. It\u2019s an interesting story. Read it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/15\/health\/cats-chicago-rat-patrol\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/15\/health\/cats-chicago-rat-patrol\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is your pussy-cat a hunter? Or does she simply watch you dart around the room trying to chase down a lizard or a mouse that sneaks into the house? Most cats certainly have hunting instincts. Some are more keen than others. But did you know that the ordinary house-cat and yard-cat are considered better hunters than wild cats such as tigers? Here\u2019s an interesting site on that topic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2785323\/Cats-better-hunters-TIGERS-Domestic-felines-agile-powerful-cousins-experts-claim.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2785323\/Cats-better-hunters-TIGERS-Domestic-felines-agile-powerful-cousins-experts-claim.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is known as the rattiest city in the country. Some businesses and neighborhoods are simply overrun with gnawing, disease-spreading rats. 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