How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets

Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by molticrystal on Thursday June 08, 2023 @12:49PM (#36244911)

>Popular notions aside, cats rarely attack rats, though rodents do avoid nesting near often-pungent cat colonies.

So the amount of places that rats nest will increase.

Does increased nesting come with increased disease?

Do they breed significantly more when they have found nesting places they are comfortable with, and if so, by what factor?

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by adsfgiodsnrio on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:57PM (#36252537)

I wondered about this myself. Cats don't often attack rats, but rats apparently change their behavior dramatically when cats are around. Just making rats afraid to come out of hiding would surely make them less efficient scavengers and would reduce their population.

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