Lockdown has made London a boomtown for rats

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'I fear London may get a big surprise when it reopens.' Pest controllers say that, as many buildings in London's city center remain empty, rats are forced to migrate to more residential areas.

London It's just before daybreak in Richmond on the southern bank of the River Thames, and pest controller Michael Coates is patrolling the rubbish bins for what is normally an elusive enemy -- rats.

"There'll be something in there for sure," he says, kicking an overflowing waste container."Rats are like little survival machines; wherever you get reliable access to food waste, they'll keep coming back." Coates' prey has become more conspicuous in London the longer England's lockdown lasts. What's more, the animals are on the move.

 

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That's a little rat, the rats in Uptown Chicago would have him for breakfast

Don't worry I have put lots of mouse/rat poison down safely in locked bait boxes. They soon disappear after a few feeds.

Yeah, most of them are in Westminster/Parliament.

What is the secret of the large number of mice in London and the huge sizes do they revere?

. Covid was made to stop migration - and now this !! Migration by Jan Theuninck, 2015

We have a rat problem in the White House. Can you help?

It's not just London I see rats scurrying in the streets in Chicago all the time

And nobody’s gonna go to school today. . .

RATATTACK

These rodents are smarter than people think too..

And the history books will go like this, 'how the world reeling from covid moved into plague'. Pestilence on his white horsie.

The rat race ... It's hell.

Wow but its normal to see rat here

You mean rat? The London govt should employ me , I have different tactics on how to kill rats in Nigeria, I kill a thousand rat almost every 6hrs.

Thats a great name for a band.. Oh wait..

Yeeks I hate rats.

May Easley spread disease.

well, i guess they wouldn't like it if they have to migrate on a monday.

Then build them a rat sanctuary! 🐀

Dunno, in NOLA looks a lot like this pandemic starved a lot of the rats out.

I hope poison is not the answer, it’s absurdly damaging to other animals. Please cnn make sure your articles informs people as to ways to control pests without using poison

Oh no, that’s horrible.need to get some rat points on people and set traps. Can’t possibly be stopping pest control to stop totally you’ll be over run..get on it.

The upwardly-mobile rats will hopefully infest the multi million pound apartments that are purchased and never lived in by people who never visit London but use it merely to boost their portfolios.

Ring a Ring a Rosey !! 🇦🇺✌️🌷PAULA

Knew it. Effective vaccine rollout and reopening scheduled for June. It was too good to be true

You never see many of them on Mondays? Baffling!

cute

Eww a dirty rat 🤮

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