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| New Delhi: No rat caught in one decade | ||
| 2005-09-13 | ||
There are 97 rat catchers on the municipal payroll, all working for the Rat Surveillance Department, a decades-old agency that last saw a lot of action back in 1994, when a plague outbreak killed 56 people in areas of northwest India near the capital, The Hindustan Times reported. Each rat catcher earns about Rs3,500 a month for catching, but there are no records of any rodents being caught in 10 years.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 Yes... feral housecats are the way to go. They are killing machines. |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2005-09-13 16:28 |
| #11 Pound for pound I'd go with unreformed farm cats - maine coon variety. They are self-sufficient and self motivating little sadistic killing machines that do their thing not for food or attention but simply because, when not sleeping, eating or defecating, they love to kill all things smaller then themselves as much as possible. They'll surrender their work product (usually decapitated) up to you on a daily basis especially if you give them some regular high end grub. They don't give a flying F&*# about much beyond the basics, which for them includes killing rats and mice. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-09-13 15:42 |
| #10 A Rat Terrier is what you want for the big job if you're in a hurry. For the long haul boas are efficient. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-13 15:36 |
| #9 On second thought, if the rats average a foot long (Not counting tail) you might be better off importing Bobcats. (Lynx) They can handle rats that size, and still be relatively "Human Friendly" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-13 12:49 |
| #8 UUmmm, Yeah, Ball Bearing Mousetraps. Dump a few hundred and no more rats, but you might have a plague of cats in a few years. Sounds like a better deal, Cats, not Rats. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-13 11:36 |
#7  Martin is open for hire. Give him a few minutes, and he'll find a rat! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-09-13 11:18 |
| #6 Wow. New Dehli has no rats! That's amazing... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-13 09:55 |
| #5 Parkinson is laughing his long-dead ass off... |
| Posted by: Fred 2005-09-13 09:48 |
| #4 I don't know what the hell these guys have been doing then. I was in New Delhi 3 years ago and saw rats a foot long (body, tail was longer) in the bushes of my hotel twice. They probably came from the giant, burning trash dump/squatter farm just behind it. That's a crock, implying there are no rats. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-09-13 09:23 |
| #3 They're the Surveillance Department, not the Capture Department. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2005-09-13 02:04 |
| #2 The division is working on its new novel, "Of Mice and Mukherjee". |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-09-13 00:32 |
| #1 You dirty rat! |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2005-09-13 00:20 |