Meet the cats fighting Chicago's rat problem
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The Tree House Humane Society has placed over 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets since 2012. WGN Photojournalist Kevin Doellman has the story.
The Tree House Humane Society has placed over 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets since 2012. WGN Photojournalist Kevin Doellman has the story.
When a bunch of cats is doing more for your city than the government
The cats don't steal your tax dollars either ..
Damn truth... 😂
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@@lowiqleftist8940 , You need a real cat like a tiger to get rid of of the rats at the state capital.
Why do anything about your rat problem when you can just exploit another species?
Title : “Meet the cats fighting Chicago’s rat problem.” News: Interviews dog walker.
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Humans never learn lol
Ikr ? I was like wth. ...
Dog owners are so annoying they gotta shove themselves into every possible situation, even if it has nothing to do with them.
My wife and I have 2 cats, we once lived in a house near an open field, one day it rained and flooded, apparently the field spiders found their way inside through a small gap in the screen door. We woke up in the morning to find hundreds of dead spiders all over the hardwood. They actually stayed up all night killing spiders. They got lots of treats that day.
At my house we had a rat and mouse problem since our house was right next to the jungle. I got tired of setting up traps and calling the exterminator, both of which did nothing to solve the problem. Then the dad finally caved in and agreed to get a cat. Never heard a rat squeaking in between walls or in our kitchen again. Plus its welcome to have a new addition to the family,
These cats have done a better job than the city council in the past six months
Maybe we should vote them in, instead. LOL
@@noneofyourdamnbusiness9012 for sure you nailed it 😁😁😁
There are videos on YT with guy's going around to people's farm's with dog's they kill the rat's like it's nothing. I'm talking about 100s of rats within an hour or two. One guy even has a Weasel😂
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or mayor beetlejuice
This is a big reason why cats were domesticated in the first place thousands of years ago. They kept our grains safe when we first started farming, helping us prevent famine and disease. Pretty cool to see them playing that same role again.
And killing off cats in the middle ages is partially what allowed the plagues to spread so quickly. Cats are a vital part of the society we've built
Cats domesticated us. They're the reason we stopped the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
@@skycaptain95 Cats are cool, but I'm not sure they're the sole reason we stopped living that hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Surely they played a role in helping us swap to agriculture though, with how widespread and useful they are.
Why some ships used to have a cat too, kept the place rodent-free.
I love going to plant nurserys because there's usually always cats just roaming around protecting their garden😋
Cats are essential everywhere around the world. They're truly man's best problem solver.
I am inspired. It is good to see people that understand and appreciate a cat's value. I am a cat rescuer, been doing it now for 15 years, and I have always loved these awesome gifts of nature. It is so marvelous to hear that there are not only people but entire towns that are starting to understand that having a cat around isn't a bad thing but a great one. the TNR program is one of the best groups to ever be put into place for these outdoor felines. It's horrible to trap them, throw them in a shelter and put them down bc they had the misfortune of being unwanted and underappreciated. I love each and every one of mine and I haven't seen a rat or mouse in yrs. I have them indoors and outdoors and my house is pest free. I don't like the thought of anything being killed, it is a heartless thing, but it is nature's way, so why not have nature work for your own benefit. If that is what it takes for people to realize that cats are invaluable, then I'll take it. The ancients knew it and so should we. Anything in order to bring awareness to folks and get them to stop killing, torturing and abandoning cats/kittens. Thank you, Tree House Humane Society in collaboration w the fine people in Chicago!! Love and admiration from High Point, NC USA.
Those emoji’s! 🥹♥️
You're so right. Tbh, I hate people who hate cats. They've obviously never owned one and if they abuse them they're just sociopaths.
“They aren’t eating them, they are hunting them for sport” cats are the cutest little psychos in existence Edit: I don’t why this comment drew cat haters but it did 🙄
People forget that they are descendants of the best predators on earth. In parts of India, Leopards sneak into the city and eat stray dogs. Cats eating dogs. That's wild.
I remember living in a duplex and I volunteered to take care of my sister's 2 cats, Loverboy and Alcazar. LB would find a mouse and Play with until he got bored. Then he chewed on it, dropped it and walked away. Reminded me of eating bacon.
They are natural born serial killers
@@darikai219my sisters cat does the same thing
@@darikai219. Loverboy and Alcazar, what CUTE kitty names!!! 😻
I took in a feral cat and she rewarded me by catching mice before they they had a chance to get in my house. I loved that cat.
@X X tf? Lmaoo
@X X why?
You should get three more to replace it 😸
Lol the cat thinks you're a lousy hunter
Ya my cat caught 3 rats in a week, one time she decapitated a mice so that’s an image that will be permanently stamped in my brain 😃
I adopted a very sick gnarly 'ole tom. I had him desexed and gave him a little holiday at the vet for awhile until he got a bit better. In the next year I nursed him back to health. He was a very sick cat yet still but managed to live another 7 full years. Here's the thing, he was a rat's worst nightmare. He would absolutely torture them for fun until they screamed - if you've ever heard a rat scream you'll know what I'm talking about, then with it screaming he would walk around with it holding it by the neck. I can tell you it emboldened other cats, perhaps showing them 'this is what you do with rats.' Rat problem stopped very soon. How he learnt this behavior only god knows. Over the years he did this many times. I could tell he liked it - he felt like an alpha cat even though his alpha day were long gone. He would prance around swiping other cats and dogs for a few days afterwards.
What an great post!
My friend has a “cat cafe” in her back yard in a really upscale neighborhood in Houston that has a few restaurants nearby. She has a really nice setup with temperature control. Any time a new cat shows up it’s off to the vet for spay, shots, and flea control. The neighbors all stack cases of food outside her garage. They have no more vermin.
Food in exchange for fluffy pest exterminators, that's a pretty sweet deal!
i might know who your friend is. is her husband a lawyer?
@@idrinkthewatersofain5114 No, but I am, and I’m beginning to do the same cat things. I have time constraints, though. ☹️
These cats do more for the city than the mayor beetlejuice
Yeah they do, and actually, the rats don't do as much harm as her either
Lmao 💀💀
You're not funny, and very disrespectful.
Thats there leader
@@quaithom3138 very funny
I'm in Wisconsin and had a mice issue last winter but noticed a huge family of feral cats in an area next to my house. Surprise, surprise, no mice this winter and it saved me money on buying them cat food 🤣🤷🏾♀️. Thanks for the awesome and cute story.
We used to have a rat and snake problem some years back. Then these other cats showed up in our hood. Now we only have a cuteness problem.
Sounds like the cat is more qualified than Chicago's mayor.
The Mayor is a sewer rat
Lightfoot is a stupid cop.
Just like every other mayor
😂💀
Vote for cat 2021
"cats at work" They should put reflective vests on them that says that, so that they don't get stolen or hit by cars.
First I thought you are joking but you are actually serious. I agree, it would be easier to see a cat in the dark. But the problem with the vests is that they make it harder to catch a rat/ mouse.
@@Scythra They said in the video that the catching of the rat/mouse isn't the point. It's the cats spreading their scent that actually keeps the rats/mice away.
@@katiewyatt4399 It's both. The cats are killing and eating some of them that they never see. I keep several feral cats that I've tamed just for these purposes. That food isn't enough to keep them fully fed. They'll be eating some of their kills but obviously not all. Cats just instinctually hunt even if they're not hungry. That's why you'll occassionally see a dead mouse or rat they didn't want to eat but overall I believe they're killing a lot more than people realize. Sure their scent helps and many male cats who are neutered will still spray a bush or places outside to claim the area but don't think they're not hunting. Some cats can't help but hunt. When you see them roaming the night looking around they're hunting.
@@katiewyatt4399 All cats hunt, not because they are hungry, but because its in their nature, they are predators, so it is kinda the point
@@pookiehoney I read a report that, in short, said felines, wild and domestic are sociopathic. However, they are, without a doubt, top-tier natural exterminators.
As long as they are spayed and neutered and have a warm place with food ,these cats are living the dream !
Yup we need to do this with people too, back in the days if you hurt a cat in anyway you got killed for it they where that important for the food fields, gold and milk whatever they wanted was theirs.
When my house started to have mice, my aunt found a cat and told my mom to take him in. My mom was the type to never want animals, idk what possessed her to take him in and now he's our lovely family cat for 3 years. His pheromones drove the mice away just by being in the house, and he was just a baby!
In Istanbul with a population of more than 15 million, there is no rat problem because of stray cats which people and also the state feed, take care, vaccinate, neutrelize, the cats do their job very well and they are also so adorable. We never call our cats ferals, we love them so much.
We had a beautiful Turkish angora cat but he was terrible at catching mice 😂 He tried though and we loved him so much.
@@anduin1 Angora cats are too beautiful to catch mice 😅 They don't become strays, they are aristocrats 😄
I saw that viral video of the black cat being fed on the seafront in Turkey. I knew someone who lived in Malta, and apparently they also have stray cats which wander freely around the city centres, being fed and looked after by locals and tourists, and keeping the rodent population down.
@@oguzb.7033 "feral" is not an insult, we have words because we need words to describe things . feral means untamed, not domesticated, wild. my house-cat catches mice but she is tame, a feral cat will scratch and bite you if you get too close, domestic cats usually purr and beg you to pet them.
@@Burger_pants In Turkey, stray cats are also domestic because people feed them and love them, most of them will let you pet them and they will purr, too, maybe in the US they are ferals because people behave them badly, we respect our stray cats in Turkey. When you see a stray cat ill or had accident in Turkey, when you get it to a veterinary, you won't pay anything because the local government will pay it, a well spent taxes of us.
This Cat is a veteran fighting off these rats in chiraq
_RESPEK HAS BEEN EARNED_
I lived in Chiraq back in 2015. There was some piece of shit that threw boiling water on a cat and posted it on Facebook.
Who the fuck *STILL* says ‘Chiraq’? 😒
@@TheLobMob Chiraqi’s!! Who else?
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Indeed, cats are very beneficial. The feral cats who were trained by mom are the best. One night I watched on security camera, a mama take her kittens hunting. Was so cute. Mama saying Hush!
Old house I lived in had a horrible rat problem. One day a stray cat just kinda showed up. Very friendly for an outdoor cat so assume was a barn cat. Just kinda started chilling around the place, on the porch and stuff, never tried to come in the house. Ever since it showed up rats just vanished lol
The great thing about cats is that even if your cat is a coward their scent alone will chase away mice/rats lol
I have 4 cats and they caught 20 mice 2 winters ago in my house lol. Some mice are brave lil buggars. They chewed a hole under my porch into my kitchen wall and then chewed a hole by my stove plug and would sneak out for food at night. I even have a video of my siamese cornering one in my bathroom and the mouse is swiping screeching at him and my cat actually backs away lmao. I had to grab it by the tail and release it miles away. And the porch they entered from is my cats porch, aka their litterbox area/cat trees/cattio entrance.
I'd rather have my dog he outcatches any cat Ive ever seen.
once I came to my cat and a rat playing together and forming a friendship...so I took matters to my own hand.
Sometimes... There is a particular parasite ( in the rodent) that causes the rat ( attracted to the smell of cat urine ) to surrender itself to the cats because it can only be incubated in the felines intestines...
@@dkaldossari1242 this comment made me laugh 😂
This is how cats originally became domesticated Rats were getting into and destroying food supplies Then someone noticed that cats kept the rats in check and as such realized that having cats around would be a good thing
only downside was peeing on wooden structures, so piss smell was constant
@@ReeferSmoker spay/neutering corrects that. Thank goodness for modern medicine, eh?
@@hollydavis06 I don't think illiterate supply house workers were performing expensive operations on their raggedy street cats. Considering we're referring to their historical use, not modern.
Not rats, MICE dumbass. Some of these rats are as big as cats, and even worse, most of them are DEMOCRATS.
Source?
Amazing how even though they are domesticated Cats still have the heart and mind of the big cats like Mountain Lions, lions, Jaguars, panthers, Caracals, Bobcats, leopards, Tigers, Servals, and African Wildcats
They were domesticated for the purpose of killing rodents so it tracks that they ought to be good at it. Only in the last century did cats become companion first and mouser second (or in some cases the people don't want their cat to catch animals at all).
@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj I let mine still haunt
1:48 Never get tired of seeing a cat trotting. So dang adorable.
Normally not a cat guy but after having rats in my previous home, I started gaining interest in them. It's like having a personal exterminator except you can pet them.
Cats are also loving companions 💓
I just personally wish they wouldn't harm birds
@@TotalGAMIX just keep them inside or normally they would play with corpses or birds And most birds will immediately be alerted and run away before it would get it
cat's don't kill rats, they kill mice. rats are much larger than mice and cats are afraid of them, for good reason. the thing that kills rats are "ratter dogs" and ferrets supervised by a professional in the craft.
My kitty detected a budding wasp nest in my walls, in my garden as well as in my neibours yard. He also years ago detected an ant colony which had made its home inside my house
I used to have cats when I lived with my parents. No rats. But since my brother made a huge fuss of me having cats, I moved out and now my parents' place has a lot of rats
No cats? Need to get them killer rat dog.
Not a nice thing to call your brother and his friends
Cats are good for keeping rat populations down but they are not good for dealing with infestations. Dogs are for infestations
@@1amarsandhu Sometimes the truth hurts.
@@Jim-pq9pm Either or I think Have u seen that one guy that had minks It’s pretty cool and gross at the same time He has a couple dogs that catch the rats / mice that get away from his minks
Fluffy..we thank and honor you for your services to the city.
Thank you kitties 😼🐱❤️
I have lived in the same house for 30 years. We never had a rat issue until 2020 when they showed up in a herd. I set traps and killed 14 and they still kept coming. Chewing holes in my ceiling and leaving poop droppings everywhere. I went to the Shelter and purchased me a cat and within 3 days the rat issue was gone. It feels good to have my house back and I owe it all to a cat.
what's the name of the cat?
@@serene1486 -- Bartholomew but we call him Bart for short.
@@r.watson1928 that is so cute !!
@@serene1486 -- Thank you.
@@serene1486 I think the rats name was Beetlejuice...mayor of Chicago
The only time we ever had a rodent problem is when we were not allowed to own a cat because our landlord in Iowa did not allow it. Thank you very much Brad.
What part of Iowa?
I like how you called him out. 😆 Cat's are pest control experts. Some people are just dumb.
Fu Brad
My Gramma had a whole ecosystem in her yard (in the south). The dogs kept the deer out of her garden & the cats kept rodents and snakes away....
i have a favor: put "Brad" in caps, make it more sarcastic
He even has a little bell for the cats. That's cute.
The best hunter is a well-fed cat. It's the law of diminishing return at play. Since the cat is fed, they don't have to hunt to have the energy to hunt.
We started to have issues with mice. Before getting pest control which was charging us more than $2,000, we noticed a feral cat always close by. Realized it was living under our house and little by little no more mice. Ive been feeding it everyday. If im late, itll sit in my backyard. Saved us thousands Edit: We had named it Jasmine thinking it was a Girl, lol. Turns out it's a boy. But he already responds to Jasmine so why bother changing it. He finally let me pet him today, just for a few seconds. My dog and Jasmine have met and there hasn't been any issues with them. Update: He is still with us! He has grown so much. He's a beautiful cat! Kiddos wanted to leave his name as Jasmine. He's still catching mice! He has left about 3 mice dead/half eaten on our porch lol
this comments is beautiful
@@annaleview5235 He is part of the family now lol. Every morning when I go outside to feed my chickens he crawls out from under the house and waits by his bowl for his breakfast.
Can probably call him Jazzman it is pretty close but Jasmine is a nice name too!
Makes me think of when a cat literally just decided he lived in our house and I wanted to call it Aragorn but was told no, it's a girl cat so call it Arwen. Then we took "her" to the vet several years later and it was confirmed that I had been right all along and she was in fact a boy. Hilariously, right in front of my mom this random lady at the vet walked up to him and says "What a handsome boy! And I can tell you're a boy because you're a big boy!" I miss him, he was so sweet.
Glad to hear
My grandmother never had a rat problem, she had lots of cats running around her garden!
She had a cat problem lol
@@meowkie8549 they drove her nuts, she cursed them and only them,but always kept them around! I understood much later about symbiosis
yea probably never had rats aroudn you diim bulb cats arent good mousers terriers are used to exterminate vermin preferably jack russels.
@@bailechuind6194 okay, while some of those statements you claimed may be partially true, that doesn’t mean that the cats do not scare away any rats or mice. If you were to simply watch the video, you would know that the mere presence of a cat would frequently be enough to drive rats and mice away and into another area to settle. Furthermore, while cats may not want anything to do with mice or rats due to a disinterest, that does not mean that they do not have the dexterity of capturing said rodents. Cats have insanely fast reflexes that are several times faster than those of humans that could even give dogs a run for their money. They are also natural hunters as many of their primal instincts are still ingrained within their minds from their relatives in the big cat family. Moreover, while terriers are frequently used in mousing and rat capturing, the manner in which you have stated your argument claims that only dogs are utilized in the sport which is most definitely not the case as numerous farms and homes use cats instead of dogs. Honestly, I could go on and on. So please conduct thorough research before attempting to prove someone wrong. P.S. if you’re going to insult someone, please make sure that your slurs spelled correctly. Also, your grammar and punctuation could use a little work.
She had a cat problem. Ha ha! Kidding! I live in a rural area where a lot of farmers actually can adopt farm cats from the shelter. The cats are ones who are not tame enough to adopt out to families. Farmers keep them in their barns to keep rats and mice away from the feed.
I find this hard to believe. Chicago does a good job keeping the city clean
It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
"These guys prowl all night long, They are cats at work, and cats that are a part of our family".....I love when he said that.
Cats at Work would be a great jazz band name.
Thank the cats for the reptile birds, bugs exterminated by them, damaging the entire ecosystem
@@sparkymularkey6970 Oh yeah. For sure!
@@fjk1728 Thank you for your stupid comment. Blaming cats for birds, reptiles deaths and the damage of the entire ecosystem is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. You are the one that damaged ecosystem but now blame cats? Shameless people!
They ain't doing shit, the rat problem in Chicago has only gotten worse over the years and many of these cats get maimed trying to fight rodents.
They're gonna need to let loose a couple of lions in New York.
You want make a New Africa?
@@sn5301679 Stupid comment
😂😂😂😂
@@AyeWhyDubb maybe it's stupid but very true
@@sierrachoco5271 Are you serious?! How about some snakes then 🐍🐍?
super! I like to feed them and how they eat. Cats are great animals!👍👍👍😍😍😍
If my wife spent as much time with me as she does with cats, I would spend less time with the guys at the bar😂😂😂👍👍👍😀😀😀
@Like Om We also have great bars here. And we love cats too and always feed them👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦👨👩👦👦👍👍👍
@Like Om Does she love you more than a cat? What do you think? Otherwise it's sad😥😥😥
@Реклама PRO business I have a friend who divorced his wife and has 6 cats. What do you think of it?😁😭😥
Years and years ago I worked as a delivery driver for a wholesale produce company. Mr. Pete, the old owner who would sort the tomatoes would always feed a small army of cats every morning. We were located at that time on an old railroad siding in Baltimore. Talk about rats. But we never really saw any because the cats did such a great job.
They need little reflective Public Works vests, for safety ! 😄 🤔😺⚠️😄
cats can squeeze thru seemingly impossible barriers, any additions are snares to them unfortunately
@@justwannachillwithya Good point, even though I was kidding. Hopefully people will appreciate the good work and keep an eye out for them.
They probably already have those
That's actually not a bad idea!
Like the ones you wear for work
My daughter had a rat problem at her house. She got 2 farm raised kittens about 2 months old 3 years ago. The rat problem was taken care of in an expeditious manner.
Expeditious...congrats on a 10$ word. Cheers from Canada🤓😷🇨🇦
Oh...farm kitten is amongst the most non-sense rat killer!.
My cat was a regular house cat but I guess they have it in they're blood lol. Those killers lol
@@abrahamaguilar9444 Our house cats killed mice for sport. We didn’t have all the fancy toys for them. They left them on our front porch for us to see the next morning and then received a cat treat. Lol
Killing machines
One of the many benefits of have having cats. The other is if you have PTSD from deployments (my son), depression (other son), or companionship (my daughter & I). We, of course, do not have mice problems now. But when I bought this duplex I had four cat's. Pumpkin would always bring three mice a day to me as presents. The other cats would occasionally bring one in. Now my the cat I do have find one here and one there. The fleas on Rodents caused the black plague because the church killed off the females (witches) and their companions (cats). Females were were called wise because they practice alternative medicine; cleaning the house with a broom. Another symbol. But I always had cats; horse ranch, farm, and my children. Cats also nurture children & teaches them to be loving & responsible adults. My two sons always have cats at home.
Very lovely cats always being very lovely
Even though they’re technically outside cats the fact they still have their own little mini cat homes that are heated to 72 degrees is amazing these cats may not get as much attention as other house cats but they are still treated very well and they have amazing cat lives compared to if they were stray cats with no one looking after them.
I believe the cat shelters are built with an effective layer of insulation, & the heat of the cat's own bodies warms it when they're in it.
Cats as a whole much prefer living comfort over constant attention anyway, they ain't sad
cats are amazing predators, my family rented a Northern Illinois farmhouse when I was a kid from 1987 to 1992, shortly upon moving in the property which had evergreen trees in the huge yard and surrounded by corn and bean fields on each side my brother and sister discovered this female cat among the trees, our family accepted this outdoor cat with open arms, one Saturday in early 1988 i was bored and went outside and the cat started following me, I venture down to the old corn crib barn on the property I went inside and the cat followed me, shortly there after the cat ran into a dark corner and pounced on something, then came back into the light with a mid sized mouse in her mouth, I was stunned and watched the cat kill and consume the mouse right in front of me, I have much respect to cats ability to hunt eat and survive
Yes, you can clearly see that those cats love it. That one cat follows his owner while they are on their walks, they come when called if they are in hearing range but they also look very well cared for. Cats have different personalities just as humans do and a lot of cats just are outside cats while others are more of the housecats variety.
they are treated better than most american cats, since they are actually allowed to be outside and not locked inside and declawed like most insane americans does it is insane that you can convice yourself that its okay to keep a cat inside and its even more insane that its legal to declaw them in america. cats should be allowed to be free as the predator they are and not kept locked inside, it should be catagorized as animal cruelty to do that.
I don’t know why but the fact that he says that the cats hunt for sport is so hilarious. Now imagining them keeping score and making bets
Who says they don't? Of course I dont mean a physical board with scores, but I think it's pretty plausible, they know, among them, who is the best hunter and who got more preys...
It's like that scene from lotr between gimli and Legolas. They go out to the rat battlefield and try to one up each other all night.
What magoos! Of course they eat them!
@@Triad637 - They eat some of them, but I've seen a cat kill a rat or a mouse and leave it to catch and kill another one...
Their brain keeps the score for them. The more successful a cat is, the more confident and dominant it feels.
Cats preventing the bubonic plague to happen again....the heroes of society
I had rats 🐀 in my backyard and in the surrounding neighborhood constantly. I live in the Bay Area in Northern California, and there are restaurants across the street in our downtown area. When I moved here in 2016, it was crazy, these rats were everywhere, even being bold enough to come out in the day time. That was until, I purchased 5 cats from a rescue. By 2018 all of the 🐀 were gone in our back yard, we were finding dead rats in our backyard with broken necks. I love my pride, they don’t play!
Guy: “these cats aren’t actually eating the rats” Me to my cat: “..... SEE!?!?!? You don’t have to actually EAT them!”
@Anorallis A You haven't seen our cats then. Hahaha They do eat them when they don't have much choice. It's particularly appalling when you hear the crunch with the breaking of the bones. After that you'll end up just seeing a mouse head or the guts. 🤮😂
@Anorallis A we have semi feral cats in my neighborhood and they do indeed eat mice they love the frogs out here too
Tell that to my aunt's cat. He first rip the rats head off and swallow the body leaving the head...
@Anorallis A I try to tell my cat this!!! But he eats them. He starts head first.... some times he does not finish the rest. He is well-fed. I have to buy special diet food so he can loose some weight. Doc says he needs to drop a couple of pounds (8). But noooo.... lets ALSO eat the rats, and mice.... and some lizards (not any rare lizards, we have these ones in droves)
@@sarahcortez8839 My cat has ALL THE CHOICE IN THE DAMN WORLD! Someone please talk to my cat, cause he needs to eat LESS not more.
Cool fact: Maine Coon cats were brought over from (edit- not Emgland) over the pond on ships to serve as ratters in food storage. 💖 Maine Coons!
Theyre also the largest domestic breed while being the most docile.
My Main Coon is quite the killer!
Wow that’s very interesting
England has no native maine coones. Fact
They're called Maine Coons because the breed originated in Maine . Maine coons are a mixture of a long haired domestic and Norwegian forest cat . They never came from England .
This is basically how our first cat was living in the country. It would leave birds, rabbits, bats, and mice. We gave her a house, a name, fed her tuna once a day, she groomed herself and loved cuddles. My favorite cat!
We have a mice and rat pest for 6 years now. Since one month a street cat has found our neighbourhood. The neighbours are dogs lovers, they don't want her in their garden. I'm the only one luring her with cat food, toys, and a nice sleeping place. Our garden is now officially mice and rat free for two weeks. They have fled my garden completely after she was able to catch two of them. And she's just so patient and loving with my kids❤.
They say cats are the only animal that domesticated themselves. They came to us because food always seemed to be around, from us as well as rodents. Over the years a relationship was developed and still to this day.
It makes sense. Humans would store large amounts of food which inevitably attracted rodents. The cats followed the rodents into our farms and villages. I guess our ancestors realised pretty quickly that cats kept rodents away without eating the stored food so they started letting the cats stay in settlements and feed them. Things probably developed from there.
True! I've also heard that cats have not truly been fully domesticated, but in the last century we've started breeding them more similarly to canines for neotinization and temperament and so on. It's interesting to think about what the species will be like a century into the future.
@@KomicalFox i personally hope they remain not fully domesticated as i love living with mini wildcats
@@KomicalFox This is a highly debated topic because in contrary to dogs cats have not changed their behavioural model (dogs did, completely). Yes, city cats tend to skip the hunt to either dwell on the dumpsters or beg humans for food, but this is nothing but a display of intellect. On the other hand, anyone who's been around cats for long enough would confirm that cats are very social and emotionally attached to their "colony", humans and other animals (dogs included) in the house. With humans, it is very typical for the cat to select one person to be most attached to, usually, it is the "food provider", seemingly because such "food provider" is associated with a mother, but it is also usual for cats to select a random person, especially in the large families. This type of relations cannot be described with a word better than "love". The most anecdotal case I've seen by myself has in the family that had been keeping both dogs and cats for generations and when I've met them they had a young cat that has been brought up by a german shepherd, but that doggy has been brought up by two cats that were already dead, and those two cats were brought up by a mongrel dog. It was very funny to watch.
You knowledge on cats is wrong. Cats we're worshipped as God's in Egypt that's how they became domesticated.
"We have rats, the suburbs have skunks" Having had a giant skunk chase me in my own back yard... yes this is accurate
Oh thats a sign of good luck. U should play the lottery.
@@someguy007 I didn't feel lucky at all 😑
@@floatingshoppinglist5193 I bet you will when u hit that jackpot.
@@someguy007 🤣 right
ive been chased by one too lol
Great idea! We have a cat and our house is a mini victorian with a rock, dirt mortar foundation. You'd think we'd have a ton of mice but the mere presence of the cat has kept them out. In our old place before without a cat, we'd have a mouse in at least once every two months, it was a real pain. Our kitty's not even what you'd call a hunter, but her presence has kept them out of our current place.
Awesome... I was never a cat affectionate person until Garfield came into my life.. Such furry loving creatures..
I worked in a couple of machine shops & a warehouse that kept a few cats “on the payroll”. I actually saw a guy get fired for throwing something at one of them. The boss said “it’s an employee, just like you except it does a better job”. They did drastically reduce the rodent population, gotta say.
What a good boss lol
My warehouse did the same.
I feel like there's two perspectives to be had here, though I'm certain the boss was in the right. Cats tend to be meddling assholes and probably shouldn't be around fuckin' lathes and shit.
Not only does a better job, but aren't actually on the payroll because they're cats
@@heckssoda588 totally agree. Couldn't figure out how none of them ever got caught in a machine, got cut up in a saw, run over by a fork lift, etc., but none of 'em ever did.
I clicked because the cat in the thumbnail was so cute🥺💕
Same😍
Me too!!! Soooo cute!!!🐈🐈
me too
Me too.
Me too lol
Most cats think rats are gross. Non feral outdoor cats really are much cleaner than rats. Cats love to hunt so they really deter rats. I heard rats scratching in my walls. I got an indoor cat who is a good hunter. She doesn’t like to be outside but I take her on a walk around my property once a week and the scratching noise stopped within a few weeks. My area has lots of farms where the farmers can apply to even get feral cats placed with them for free to keep the rat population down. Our main crops here are lemons, avocados, berries( mostly strawberries) and oranges. Rats love those crops. Having the free roaming cats preserves the crops a lot better and cats are cleaner than rats in their potty habits so you won’t walk through a pile of cat excrement but without the cats, the rat excrement that carries lots of disease is everywhere
I love cats. I always say they're like mini tigers or mini lions. So much character and raw natural ability.
That's exactly what they are, just more acclimated to respect you.
For real, I love how cats have so much personality unlike most other pets
Mini Panthers, especially blue cats.
@@MooreArts-Crafts-and-Pets No no no. You must not have a cat. We respect THEM. They are our masters 😂
city tigers
I rescued my cat from a rubbish bin unfortunately, his siblings had died, someone had thrown the litter of new born kittens out in a huge rubbish bin at work so it was really sad. I feed my kitten and he grew to a strong, loving, smart, caring cat. I named him Herbie. I had a beautiful dog, cat and three babies. My husband and I worked hard to feed my family their favourite foods. One day, I said to Herbie, Herbie, sorry darling but I can’t afford to feed us tonight, I was joking with him he,he,he, I said to him sorry mate can’t afford any shopping! Anyway, one hour went past Herbie, went outside and came back with a huge frickin rat!! And put it at my feet! Omg! Wtf Herbie! But that’s his way of helping our-family, how awesome was that! I gave him his favourite dinner that night and said to him don’t worry Herbie, you don’t need to bring me a rat, we are okay! 😁😂💗
I love this story lol 😂😂
"strong, loving, smart, caring" What are things never said about cats, for 200 dollars, Alex.
@Froddobaggins WasmyMilkman "all animals".. except for rats. lol
DB
i love the name herbie so much lol
There are rats in that city that cats cannot get rid of.
I lived out in the sticks, and had a HUGE mouse problem. A stray momma crawled under my back porch one day and had a litter of kittens. I started feeding them, and even though momma scooted the kittens stayed. I have video of the one that socialized the best battering a mouse around the backyard. Cat food costed way less than all the traps I was buying. 😊
We had a serious mouse infestation, and they carried fleas into our apartment. When my roommates arrived with their two cats, we saw a slight decline in bolder mouse activity. But then one morning, I woke up, and there was mouse blood all over the kitchen and a corpse right in the middle like some mouse horror film had been staged there, and we never saw another rodent for two years.
lol I've lived in various apartments over the years, and have occasionally had small intruders. They don't last long, and I've come into the kitchen of a morning to find a headless body in the middle of the floor. It seems cats really like those crunchy heads....
What happened after those two years?
@@MD-th4zv We moved lol. But the new tenants suddenly had a mouse infestation again. They didn't have cats.
So, it’s cat mafia? Show the rest what will happen to them if they stick around.
@@hecate235 I've been fortunate to not have a rodent problem in years, but our old cat (long dead now but loved always, RIP Zenobia) used to leave the butts too. :P
When ‘Cats At Work’ signs become a welcomed sight. Blessings Chicago.
Here's one example of a couple that has their own cats. Notice at the end of the video he says that Chicago has released 1,000 FERAL cats throughout the city. These aren't going to be friendly cats that are cuddly. What's next? Dogs? This is like the story about the woman who swallowed a fly.
Entire neighbour should pay them with wet food weekly 😂
It's mind-boggling to me how more places don't follow the example from Turkey. Just take care of outdoor cats and let them police the rodent population.
I remember when I lived in Florida,I brought in a homeless cat and we named him Houdini.When I would see one of those huge palmeto cockroaches in the house,I would tell him to go get it and he would and then eat it.He always did an excellent job.He was a great cat.He lived a long life 7-5-17 is when he passed away.
what a great story rip houdini
Man nothing like the palmetto bugs in Florida, they were insane the late 80s. You could touch a palm tree and bunches would fall out of the bark, don't even think of moving a dumpster
Wow, just like our kitten lmao. She goes crazy when she sees a cockroach and bites it's head off.
can the cats fight he black on black murders too ? the wonderful communist blm isnt doing anything about that . they just murder white people .. oh thats not new is it ?
That's great 'cause exterminating them is probably the worst thing you can do since a lot of lizards, toads and frogs eat them. I've never lived or went to Florida, but hey, buying a lizard doesn't sound all that bad! lol
The long hair cat looks just like my cat and now I’m wondering if my cat has a secret gig he hasn’t told us about
Awww 🥰
Hey, where's Perry?
Squirrel cat ! I have one and she eat snakes , squirrel's , Lizards etc..She love me ..
Some of them have whole other families.
👍🤣😂
Thank you for your service
We need this program in NYC... seriously!
I absolutely love that the cats are named Drake and Washington 😂
Unrelwted but i love ariimaw's art aswell!
I had both a rat and roach infestation for years. It got to the point that the rats were coming into my room and night and roaches were usually scurrying on the walls. That was until I got my cat 8 month old cat from the shelter and both problems have been solved ever since. I havent seen a roach or rat in years
You started cleaning your apartment because the cat told you?
@@christrumptastic3161 if you actually knew what a infestation was you would know it's not that simple at all.
@@christrumptastic3161 wait till someone explains to you that walls are hollow and pests can get into your home from OUTSIDE. We have had like 4 field mice find a way inside since we moved, our cats took care of them for us. It was also entertaining to watch.
More dirty ass mfs making excuses. Lol
@@Burger_pants 4 field mice is way less of what op described. And understandable.
cats are often the unsung heroes of domesticated animals. they have saved more human lives than dogs ever will. killing rats controls the spread of ancient plagues that decimated the human race. the more cats you have outside your home the less chance you will get mice and rats guaranteed.
My cats really solved my rat problem. I haven't heard or seen any in a while.
I love how the dude says oh they’re not eating the rats, they’re killing them for sport.
Me too 🤣 best part
A well fed cat, especially if it doesn't have an indulgent owner to play with it, will do that.
Man my cat loved it I didn't like letting him out at nite but he was a predator I went to jail and he started bringing back headless birds to my wife...
It’s true..my cat kills and just leaves the body there..he’s not eating that crap, he’s well fed
@@jojofreelancer1210 I get brought dead birds, injured birds, dead mice, alive mice, and a bat...
Thank you to the couple who provide food and shelter to the kitties!
Feed the cats and they will not kill the rats.
@@AntonioSantos-yh2tq she’s right. Most cats will just sleep if you feed them. Your cat is just a psycho.
@@janesmith9968 you didn’t watch the video, did you? The cats don’t eat the rats, their pheromones deter the rats
It's not for free. I just read an article that said it costs up to $600.00 a month to provide for these Ferrell cats.
@@janesmith9968 not really. Felines kill prey to pass boredom too.
I thought the dog Walker was about to go full Dr suess naming all those dogs 😂
I was reading articles saying cats fear rats because they are big and can put up a fight, but hunt mice because they are smaller and do not put up much of a fight! I disagreed with that. I have seen cats hunt big rats, kill and devour leaving only the head and feet! Those must be scared domesticated cats they were referring to!
„the scent of the cats will keep the rats away“ rats: vibing in front of a cats cage ✌🏻💀✌🏻
I saw that too
I think it was special training. Cats were in a cage, rats - in a larger one
@@mewtwo343 wait how does that matter, the rats still tip toed in front of the cats...?😆
CAT'S SHOULD NEVER HAVE A CAGE,WHAT THEY NEED IS A GOOD WARM BED,THEY WILL SLEEP WITH PEOPLE ON TOP OF THE BED.
@@craigbosko2229 the cage is a TEMPORARY necessity for acclimating new cats to new territories....otherwise you are right...cages can be misused for cats & dogs....and birds!
I had a blind cat when i was a kid and he hunted rats like no other.
Stevie Wonder can stalk deer like nobody's business.
@@dixonpinfold2582 Lol. Jesus Christ😂
About 15x better smell. 7x night vision and acute hearing. Plus heavenly armed. A bobcat at 30 lbs could take you out
Let me ask a question, your parents let a BLIND cat outside? There are many life threatening things for a cat who can see, and a blind cat would be even more danger if it would go outside.
@@paulherzog9605 no
I'm not sure why anyone would want to live in Chicago, from the outside looking in it sounds horrible.
We have cats around our house and not one rat comes into our house. I have found rat heads almost as if the cats give it to us as a trophy or something.
Y'know, people don't realize just how OP cats are when it comes to all the little things they hunt. Cats are faster, stronger, and more agile; with lighting reflexes, sharp teeth, and claws. It's not even a fair fight.
My cats are good mousers ( catching them, bringing them in for me and then I have to chase them around....soft mouths), but afraid of chipmunks and the squirrels just laugh at them..pay no attention to them at all. Lately one of keeps bringing me live frogs.
@@CarriUSAIf your cats aren't hunting them, then it's the cats who have decided they're not worth the effort. Those squirrels and chipmunks aren't laughing--they're breathing a sigh of relief. :) Most pet kitties are well feed; plus, there are usually plenty of easier targets to get that hunting fix that all cats need. But cats can definitely catch squirrels and chipmunks; albeit, they are much more challenging prey.
@@CarriUSA Is "soft mouth" an expression? Because honestly that sentence sounds super creepy to a non-American, like you're kissing (or something else...) the soft mouths of the mouses.
God's perfect killing machines that we name Mister Snuggles and Cherrub. no wonder they hate us
@@brianlacroix822 Mr.Whiskers.
I wasn't a cat person until I actually owned one and now I like them as much as dogs, in some ways a lot more. The negative rumors about cats are so wrong!
..cat haters are psychos..
@@robertallen6710 I agree Robert, they are also evil. Look at all the serial killers and child killers, I studied them in college and almost everyone hurt cats before they moved onto people! If we really wanted to make our world a safer and better place to live we would start punishing these evil animals murders the same way if they had murdered or tortured a person!
@@andrewdwight3443 ok there's a difference between serial killers practicing by killing cats (and also clearly they do not just do that to cats, any small generally defenseless against a human animal can and will be tortured by these kinds of people), and people genuinely not liking cats for whatever reason they have every right to not like cats for. How about you don't start saying people who hate cats or don't want anything to do with them are all secretly serial killers in the making? Like damn if that's all that you got out of your serial killer study in college no way you passed that class 🤡
Also hurting animals before moving on to humans is one of the key points of the Macdonald triad and with cats being incredibly common animals in neighborhoods since they are a very common pet and also the pets that are the least supervised by their owners and constantly let out to roam the streets as they please, of course a lot of serial killers have hurt cats before moving on to humans. There is quite the damn difference between looking for an animal to torture and cats being the most common animal fo find free roaming in a neighborhood and just saying cats are annoying and not the kind of pet you would like or animal you have any chemistry with.
cats are so much cleaner than dogs, i could never have a dog inside the house but a Bengal is the only cat i have inside due to them leaving very little to none hair around.
Cats are so remarkable. Where I live geckos, centipedes, rats and roaches are a common problem. I make sure my habits prevent rats and roaches, but my cats handle the other two critters that come inside from time to time. I try and catch geckos to release them outside because I feel bad if one of my kitties gets them since they can help with roaches, and they aren't harmful aside from their droppings. The centipedes, on the other hand, have a nasty sting and are fast. I've found a few dead carcasses of them on the floor from my cats being good little killers and keeping me safe :)
I worked at a Type House years ago, my shift ended at 3 am. Walking down a cracked sidewalk, I saw a rat as big about a foot and a half long, not counting the tail. I quit that job, it was terrifying.
I can attest to the effectiveness of feral cats in keeping down the rodent population. Where I live in Florida we have a huge rodent problem. But in my specific neighborhood we have 20-30 feral cats that patrol and we all contribute to providing them with plenty of food. We take turns taking them to the vet for annual check-ups. Several of us have constructed rain shelters for them. About half of them are friendly enough we can approach and often pet them but they are free to roam or as we say patrol the neighborhood. I can report that nobody in our neighborhood has seen any sign of any rodents in over two years. Half a mile down the road where the neighbors are constantly rounding up their feral cats to take them to the city pound to be put to sleep, they also have a huge rodent problem and they have meetings on how to curb the rodent problem and they pay tens of thousands of dollars for exterminators. If people would just let the cats be or as we do, make a cat friendly neighborhood, the rodent problem would go away.
How ‘bout that?!
@@RoninAli1 Cats are cool.
Also has some setbacks. In Australia, Cats are being hunted because of them killing native birds and lizards
Wish they would hunt our non-native iguana population
and everything smells like cat piss and shit. Great
4:09 The fact that this man literally is out on the street with them just casually screaming and pointing at rats and stuff and unleashing the cats to go get them😂😂😂😂
I know has me dying
they are not dogs lol 😂 they hunt differently...but funny hahaha
*Brianna Carvajal* What about that fact?
Omg 😱 then he even did the clicking sound and said "almost like a dog" 😂
@@ANDJELINA then what fuck are they doing?
Dog: require signs in order to remind the humans to keep the overly enthused tail-waggers in check Cat: set loose on the entire city to clean the streets like they were written into existence by DC comics
Please don't let the cats eat out of the can, the edge is sharp and can cut they're tongues. FYI
I adopted 8 cats! They live in my Alfalfa barn. When I shake their wet food can, they come racing! They helped my blue heeler clear a gopher problem.
I adore cats...you are my hero! I work with a group of rescuers and we trap and spay ferals then we get them a 'job' on a farm or stables. That way everybody wins.
Alfalfa barn sounds like something lenny from of mice and men would have
That's alot of cats...wouldn't you mind adding more
@@rikihats4641 Thank you for your work
@@mistawibedywob9544 Pretty sure he would have plenty of pets in there as well. One day he'll get there...
CATS are majestic creatures. God bless these amazing angels!
They are amazing just seeing a cat makes me euphoric
Amen🙏🏻❤
Let's worship them like the Egyptians
@@jzip I am ready.
Amen to that. 🙏
I had a cat who was the world's most affectionate cat with people, but he was a hunter known all around our block for killing mice. Sadly he was killed by a car at age 14. I only have indoor cats now.
The best mouse trap money can buy. It even cleans itself when it's done! 😸 These cats are truly doing The Lords Work!
I'm glad people of Chicago rediscovered one of the oldest human experiences.
the fact youre dense enough to think this will help shows why chicago is in the state its in.
@@bailechuind6194 Why are you so angry?
@@bailechuind6194 true it will not help Chicago's situation as a whole but it can be helpful locally at least
every problem contains it's own solution, that neighborhood found their around the clock solution.cats are very territorial and will stay within its perceived boundaries and make sure any unwanted creatures from rodents to snakes dont take up residence.i have 2 gorgeous main coon cats, they can grow up to 3 ft tall at the shoulder and weigh up to 35 lbs.just love and take care of them and they will give you back so much more.
And this is why cats were regarded as divine gifts from the Egyptian gods, protecting the grain supply 🔒
Yeah
@@noobbro3469 uP
Put down that crack pipe!
@@smug8567 projection.
Egyptian gods ...lol.....giving us cats....??????lmfao