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There is a secret third option, which is to have a cat in the apartment :3

Because it’s new york, sometimes the cats lose to the rats. https://youtube.com/shorts/g-PXxTkPQ3c?si=02VGLetMiroJz_FP

You have absolutely no idea what a cat actually fighting or trying to kill something looks like.

That cat isn't losing, it's playing. It's toying with the rat and the "loss" was it repositioning to stalk it (the pressed to the ground body pose.)

Cats will fuck up all manner of wildlife an order of magnitude or two their weight.

Our cats have discovered that dead mice aren't any fun to play with, so they'll go to great lengths not to kill them. They'll pounce and stun them for a bit, then the mouse recovers and tries to scurry off - and the cycle repeats. Eventually the mouse finds a safe haven where a cat can't get to it.

A friend's parents used to have a maine-coon-esque cat who once brought home a lamb it had discovered in a nearby field. Would have had to get this thing over at least two fences but somehow managed.

Rats ≠ mice. Rats are a public nuisance that hang around because there’s always trash outside. Mice are the ones that invade your apartment.

I’m sure rats do invade some apartments, but that’s gotta be crazy rare.

And when the cats get out of control introduce a bear? Or is it an alligator? ;)

You need to eventually make this ecology circular.

Just ate our apartment cat—-thanks for that advice.

Wait now I need a new one

I don't think NY has a native bear population (well, it does, but it's the wrong kind of bear), but you could get the alligator from the sewer.

I will have to ask the old lady who swallowed the fly.

Alligator. When winter comes they freeze to death.

You huff glue, eat cat food, and chug some beer.

Think Tank afficionado and Always Sunny fan? Quite the man of culture.

IASIP was a fairly popular show among my cohort of staffers.

Reassuring to know IASIP is upstream of US policy. We’re going to make it.

But comptrollers get paid shit.

No, just butcher all but one of the female cats to make *cat meat roasts*, and stick the spare in a cage. (Keep the males for vermin control.) See also [0].

0: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Catsplosion

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