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Otterfan t1_j4nj6fb wrote

Reply to comment by Ihavecometochewbbgum in A “rat crisis” in Brookline is probably a regular Tuesday in Allston by 3720-To-One

Rats are way worse over the last couple of years. Pre-COVID there were nowhere near as many rats in the Boston area.

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higherhopez t1_j4o75cw wrote

Oh, there were. I lived in the Fenway area back in 2005 and we had RATS. They would come out from the radiator and climb the Venetian blinds to get to our hanging plants. Once they were done feasting on the roots, they’d dive-bomb back down to the floor and scurry back into the radiator.

We had rats.

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Exciting-Ant4077 t1_j4o92uu wrote

When the Big Dig began in the early 1990's, hundreds of subterranean rats were displaced and made their way into the city.

There's been a rat problem in Boston ever since.

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CamNewtonJr t1_j4pfrdp wrote

It just feels worse because the rats migrated when we had the lockdown and all the restaurants closed. Pre-covid, the rat pop lives in areas that had high concentrations of businesses, mainly restaurants, so they could eat the trash dumped behind the business. So you couldn't walk through back bay, the downtown area, fenway, allston, or parts of Cambridge without seeing huge rats. During the lockdown, we stayed home and as a result our trash stayed home with us. So the rats moved to our neighborhoods because that's where the food was

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