Stairway to Rodent Heaven

One of our faithful readers sent this picture in today.

By the way, I love getting pictures from the people.  It's just further proof that our pest friends are everywhere we go.  Plus it saves me from having to go to the Fotomat (r) to get my film developed.

This was on the stairs to the train.  The stairs give you an idea of size.  Its death could be natural causes, or maybe some rodenticide that floats around in the subway system, or perhaps even some blunt force trauma from an encounter with a larger being, or maybe even that bad smack that's been going around the east village lately.

In any case, dead rats remind us of live rats, of pests in general, of the reality of death, and of the fact that it's 2015 and these things are still thriving in the most advanced city in the world.

They also remind us not to walk around barefoot.

Ew york city will be back tomorrow, and maybe Friday.

Be Afraid

Yes, you have a problem if you see this many rat droppings in one area of your restaurant's basement.

As I have said before and will say again, mice leave behind a lot more droppings than rats do, so if you see this amount of fresh rat droppings you have a lot of rats coming into your area.

The black void on the right side of the photo is a trap that leads down to a pipe.  The restaurant people had laid a big board over the trap and put a heavy piece of equipment on top.  The rats were still able to find their way in.

Exclusion is an important part of rat control.  We actually went down into the trap and sealed up the pipes with wire mesh that had been treated with repellants.  You have to fight fire with fire, and you have to fight big rat doodoo with something that is equally heavy duty.

Each one of these rat droppings can be full of deadly disease and harmful pathogens.  And, every single one of them can be a violation point against your restaurant when the DOH comes in to inspect.  And what's even worse is that each and every dropping clashes with those new curtains I just hung up.

When dealing with rats, you have to out think, out smart, and out run them.

I know you can do it.

Ew york city will probably be back a few more times this week.

Happy Monday from the Monday Morning Muck Mouse

This is some muck that was in a restaurant somewhere.

Doesn't it look like a mouse?

Happy Monday from Ew York City

B I N G O

Sometimes you get a gift.

"Yes sir, we found where the rats are coming into your restaurant."

Lots of bait and some cement was what it took.

Everybody stay dry today.

Ew York City will be back tomorrow.

Fluffy

This is actually one of the first rat pictures I ever took.  Just some random dead rat on the street.

It's bloated from being out for a while.  The license plate gives it some scale.

There's a lot in the news today about diseases that rats carry.  The tabloids love a good fear mongering story, but obviously rats do carry disease, we've known that since we were three and dad told us to take that dead rat out of our mouth.

So be diligent, wash your hands, and kill as many as you can. Who knows, we might be the first generation to live in a rat free society.

Ew York City will return tomorrow.

Yankee Ingenuity

What you are looking at here are a couple silver box mouse traps that have glue boards inside.

But what are those dark green squares or blobs on top of the glue boards?

Seaweed.

Yes, the proprietors of the restaurant, who happen to be Japanese, have baited the trap with seaweed.

You have to admire their efforts to attract the mice into the traps.

I am not sure that mice are generally eaters of seaweed, but I did overhear some rats ordering the miso soup the last time I had sushi.

Ew York City will come around the corner again tomorrow.

This is Why We Fight

The enemy is on your plate.

Then the food is on your plate.

Then the food is in your mouth.

Need we say more?

Get involved!

See you tomorrow in Ew York City.