NEW YORK: To dismay of inspectors, prowling cats keep rodents on the run at city delis - (N.Y. Times)
December 21, 2007 – 4:56 pmAcross New York City, the owners of delis and bodegas say they cannot do without their cats, tireless and enthusiastic hunters of unwanted vermin, that typically do a far better job than exterminators and poisons.
Urszula Jawor, 49, the manager of a corner store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was quoted as saying of her cat that, In the morning she is lazy, it is her nap time. But in the afternoon she is busy. She spends hours stalking the mice and the rats.
The story says that to store owners, the services of cats are indispensable in a city where the rodent problem is serious enough to be documented in a still popular two-minute video clip on YouTube from late February (youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws) of rats running amok in a KFC/Taco Bell in Greenwich Village. Store-dwelling cats are so common that there is a Web site, workingclasscats.com, dedicated to telling their tales.
But, the story notes […]
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