Comments on: Rat Surge: They’re Crafty and Assertive

By: SB

SB — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:57:07 +0000

i don’t even know where to begin with my rat horror stories. I used to live on Grand St. & the area was just infested. a guy doing some work around there told me that i lived above one of the biggest rat tunnels he’d ever seen!

walking home i’d see the sidewalks move as the rats scattered under the buildings. these bastards can chomp through anything. make sure to check your yard. the rats actually burrow & make holes in your soil. when you cave their holes in, or flood them out, the rats are too smart to use them again & just make new holes.

my advice? poison in the holes & make the building a very cat friendly place. more cats, less rats.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:19:53 +0000

Jeremy, you feel BAD poisoning RATS!!! Wow.

I feel bad NOT poisoning rats. But I daydream killing toy dogs with a nail gun… so, there you go.

By: Jimmy Legs

Jimmy Legs — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:03:47 +0000

aw, they really love this blog over at ny mag:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/03/bushwick_life_rat_poop_on_your.html

By: morgan

morgan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:49:38 +0000

I don’t have any advice as to how to get rid of rats, but I read a pretty interesting book a little while ago about the history of New York – and in particular Bushwick – as it related to the history/ behavior of rats.

If anyone is looking for an interesting quick read it’s called Rats and it’s by Robert Sullivan (they have it at the Brooklyn Public Library)

Good luck with your infestation

By: bambina

bambina — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:08:10 +0000

The plug-in things didn’t work for the mice we have here. There not out of control though so its not that big of a deal i guess. We had more mice in the East Village then here.

By: kanoa

kanoa — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:26:42 +0000

i have had good experiences with Anyhouse Exterminator in bed-stuy. they have a cheezy website (www.anyhouseexterminator.com) but they also have a contract with the MTA. we keep our trash in the big rubbermaid bins with tightly sealed lids, and put it out on the curb in thick contractor bags that keep the rats out. our neighbors however seem to favor the white kitchen bags.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:14:31 +0000

Heh. Rats goddamn better feel terror and pain.

The only reason NOT to poison them is because then they’ll crawl in your house to die just to spite you with their deathsmell. Well, that and the potential for accidentally poisoning your pets.

I have no sypathy, no matter how smart or how god’s Creaturely they are.

Fuck. Them. In. The. Rattbutt.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:05:56 +0000

I feel bad about the idea of poisoning them. Rats are intelligent, they feel pain, they feel terror… but they also spread disease, eat through wires and pipes and wood, and shit all over. In the end, I’m worth more than some rats.

By: bri

bri — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:54:22 +0000

the ultra sonic thigns don’t work — total waste of money. Jeremy, if you feel like getting/paying an exterminator, Pest Away Exterminating (212.721.2521) is pretty good. I’m total high maintenance so I called them in when I found 1 mouse in my last apt, on the LES. They’re not cheap, but they got rid of the mouse . Also the owner’s really laidback and easygoing and a good therapist for guys like me who freak when they see a mouse… other than that… pick up your mess! :)

By: esb

esb — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:54:09 +0000

When I first moved into my apartment I could watch the rats chasing each other in games of tag in the empty lots next door. They also found a way into my ceiling, and would run around up there during the night. I would try to scare them out by banging on the ceiling with a broom handle, but then it became a game of me playing tag with the rats as they ran from room to room above me(I don’t think they were necessarily afraid, as they only ever moved a couple of feet). I eventually put poison outside of all of my windows and after a couple of weeks there weren’t any rats on my block anymore. I know it’s cruel, but there was definitely an infestation of sorts, as my apartment backs right on to two industrial lots, which are not groomed. Surprisingly, my neighbors seem to have put up with these rats for years, which I found a bit disturbing – in that their children make use of their back yard, which had rats running around it at all times of the day (there were at least a couple every time I looked out the window).