Rats have always been a problem in Chicago: in the streets, the parks, and under peoples houses. As older houses are being torn down, the rodents living in and underneath the aging structure will scurry. The city and the developer set poison baits and traps to help control the problem, but some residents are turning to one of the rats' worst enemies instead — cats. Rats can find a home almost anywhere, for example the yard of apartment building next door, where they feast on restaurant garbage and dog feces. Victoria Thomas, a pilgrim of the cat patrol, says she tried everything from trenching and underground fencing to poison traps, but nothing worked. Until she got some cats. From the first day she got the feral cat colony, Thomas says the rats started to disappear. Thomas provides her cats with food, water in a heated dish and insulated shelters, in return the cats patrol the backyards on her block.
I love that this woman has found a solution to a problem that caused so much distress. Thomas is just letting the cats do what they love, hunting for rats, and in return not only fixing her own problem, but other's as well. The problems that we are able to fix with simple solutions are endless; in the future I hope that more problems are solved using easy attainable supplies, not over-complicating the situation thus making it worse.
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I love that this woman has found a solution to a problem that caused so much distress. Thomas is just letting the cats do what they love, hunting for rats, and in return not only fixing her own problem, but other's as well. The problems that we are able to fix with simple solutions are endless; in the future I hope that more problems are solved using easy attainable supplies, not over-complicating the situation thus making it worse.
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Kenley Turner- Let Nature do what it needs to do!!
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