- Mayoral candidate Antonio Razzi proposes to deploy 500,000 cats in different areas in Rome to solve cases of pestering rats
- The feline troops will have their own safe place to live – and probably have somebody to take good care of them
- The cats will be imported from Asia
- Estimated ratio of rats to the 2.6 million residents of Rome is 2:1
When the cats are away, the mice will play. And that doesn’t literally mean just playing around, but rather pestering residences.
In the city’s quest to stop the burgeoning problem of rat infestation, aspiring Rome politician Antonio Razzi announced in a note on Tuesday the plan to release hundreds of thousands of cats to help eradicate the pests.
“One of the key points of my plan is to free the city from its rat invasion, but time is running out. Everyday there are more and more,” wrote Razzi, “I have already made plans to bring over the cats, which will be deployed at strategic points throughout the city”.
A good 500,000 hungry cats, according to Fox News published on April 14, will be imported from Asia. The Mayoral candidate said that he is not recommending to discharge ferocious cats on the streets; adding that the animals will have a safe place to live with the proposition that the feline combatants could “live with Rome’s lovely old cat ladies” and “even offer subsidiary for taking them in”.
Fair deal, right? The cats get to do the job, while the residents get away with the rats and even get paid for taking the furry army in.
Back in the old times, cats are a popular sight to Rome. It was not until the neutering policy for cats and dogs was implemented that they started to diminish in number, which later on resulted to the rat infestation. The estimated ratio of rats to the 2.6 million residents of the city is 2:1. Or probably more, as there are about 6 million pesky rats in Rome.
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