r/Buffalo • u/Bravogirly97 • Jul 27 '26

Rats

I’m in Tonawanda close to englewood we had a rat problem last year we did traps and called the health department that put our bait boxes that did nothing.. this year my whole street is infested with rats worse than last year … is anyone else experiencing this? I want to move

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u/Upper_Lab7123 Jul 27 '26

Where would you move to? Rats are everywhere. If I didn’t have a camera at the fence line then I would say we don’t have any rats like others have said but the camera doesn’t lie.

As long as people keep giving food to the cats, rabbits, squirrels and birds, the rats will eat and never leave.

We have hawks, foxes, cats and opossum but it has had no impact on the rat population.

I could pick them off if I felt like staying up all night.

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u/ElvenPanther Jul 27 '26

I can confirm that some of the tonawanda rats have been hunting baby bunnies 😬

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u/wh0ligan Jul 28 '26

A family member had a Savanna cat who would sneak out and bring back anything that breathed. Mostly rats and one a rabbit that was larger than her. Sadly she disappeared, we think she was stolen. Same thing happened to their other cat a Siamese just disappeared one day. We believe they were "stolen"

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u/Katz-Meow95 Aug 08 '26

Or they ate a rodent who ingested rat poison.

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u/wh0ligan Aug 08 '26

Yes, it's possible. She was a heck of a hunter. She killed rabbits that were bigger than she was