As Japan fights coronavirus with shutdowns, rats emerge onto deserted streets

Great! While the rest of the world is enjoying views of dolphins and peacocks and puma a, here w we are with our rats, LOL

Am gunna go running now, listening to Ghost’s Rats on my earphones. Stay safe today everyone.

Now seems like the perfect time to exterminate them.

 "feeding from garbage bags"

Yeah, let's NOT put our food garbage in hard sealed containers like in other countries. TIJ.

"the rest of the world is enjoying views of dolphins and peacocks and puma a, here w we are with our rats, "

Are China, Swaziland, Andorra, Bolivia and Nepal included in that list of yours?

Yeah, lots of "dolphins and peacocks and puma" to be seen in the UK, France, Germany, i.e. all over Europe; no rats in London at all. Nope, not even one.

"LOL"

Indeed.

I agree with Jeff! Wouldn't this be a easy time to put out some rat poison and get rid of them? Do they serve any purpose? I don't think so.

One thing i know. This isn't Osaka. Streets here don't seem empty at all.

I few weeks ago I filmed the rats running wild one the sidewalks of St. Mark’s in NYC, which is lined with Asian restaurants and usually crammed with Asian students but is now largely deserted.

I've seen rats there before in the early morning. Filthy place. OK for drink but wouldn't eat anything there. It's just now you can see them in normal hours.

Release the snakes!!

Great! While the rest of the world is enjoying views of dolphins and peacocks and puma a, here w we are with our rats, LOL

LOL!

> Let the cats out

NO! That would be bad...cat's have been found to be carriers of this virus. They need to practice social distancing as well.

Don't blame the RATS, it's the humans that are the problem. keep clean and the rats will go away.

Rats in the streets of a major city, eh? Who would’ve thought it? I’ve got them in my roof from time to time as well as out the back. They’re vermin, of no ecological use except as an occasional food source for foxes or dogs or raptors, as well as being a health risk to humans. So you can put out bait or traps for them with a clear conscience, being careful of course not to accidentally poison your cat or your dog or your kids or any local native wildlife or yourselves. Or call in the exterminator to do it for you.

Domesticated cats and dogs, who also of course serve no ecological use..

you can put out bait or traps for them with a clear conscience

Just kill anything you don't like, even when it's doing you no harm?

Nah, you can't do that with a clear conscience - at least not if you have any kind of moral compass, you can't.

The rats haven't suddenly increased in number. They have always been there, they probably always will be there, long after we are gone. (Unless we take them and the rest of the nature world with us in a nuclear holocaust that kills every living creature bar the roaches).

Just them them be. They were doing you no harm when you didn't see them, they're doing you no harm now. If you don't want them in your living space, then simply make your living space unwelcoming to rats. Keep your food and kitchen waste securely covered, plug up any holes in your skirting boards and outside walls, invite a cat or two to share your living quarters (for the deterrent factor; you don't need Kitty depositing mangled rodent carcases on your living room carpet).

Live and let live.