The Vigilante Group Of New Yorkers Who Hunt Rats At Night (HBO)
The Vigilante Group Of New Yorkers Who Hunt Rats At Night (HBO)
Rats aren’t only a part of New York City’s underground — they’re an inseparable part of its pop culture. There’s Master Splinter from the Ninja Turtles, Pizza Rat, and even Cannibal Rat. But for every celebrity rat, there’s another 250,000 to 2 million anonymous rodents living in the city — and the city health department is fighting to bring down.
The battle can be deadly. Last year, three people in a Bronx city block contracted leptospirosis through rat urine. Only two survived.
To combat the problem, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a $32 million initiative to rid New York of its signature rodents, concentrating on hyper-infested areas that the city describes as “rat reservoirs.”
Multiple city agencies are currently focusing their efforts around public housing buildings, where they plan to replace dirt basement floors, block passageways and amp up trapping, baiting and poisoning efforts.They also apply dry ice to the rats’ burrow systems, effectively suffocating them as the carbon dioxide gets released while the ice melts.
But if all else fails, a small group of dedicated rat hunters are ready to step in.
When dusk settles, Richard Reynolds and his vigilante rat hunters known as “The Ryders Alley Trencher-Fed Society” — or R.A.T.S for short — roam lower Manhattan’s streets and dumpsters, keeping their dogs’ instincts sharp and the hunting tradition alive.
In the three decades Richard has been hunting rats with his dogs, he says he must have killed thousands of rats. But he doesn’t really keep track.
A hunter through and through, he only counts the ones that get away.
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didn’t knew those cute little lap dogs could be such killing machines
People: "Stop with animal abuse"
Also people: "Lets kill some rats and have fun"
When the dogs caught the rats i immediately said good boy 😭.
🤟🤟😋😋💚💚👍👍✌️✌️☺️☺️🥰🥰
How come i never seen rats in most citys but when i go to new york, chicago or new jersey i see them. Big juicy ones. I mainly see mouse the smaller ones. Anything special in NY where they are so big lol
Bring Mink man aka Joseph Carter, most badass guy, seriously search him up on YouTube
Do you need a hunting license to hunt rats?
What a cesspool it’s a shame people just can’t have a pellet rifle there. Thousands of rats could be killed. But in NYC they would put you in prison for that. SMH
New york is full of rats.
Wanna get rid of rats? – Go to the White House
My dog dont even listion to me
poor babies :(((
😂😂😂😂
0:20 Me and the homies in Iran when we see a big booty Iranian Soldier laying dead
PETA, close your eyes 🙈
He was totally being ignored 😂
Becareful for rabies
Meanwhile ground hogs and other "rats" are getting blasted
How do their dogs not get diseases?
PETA JOINT THE CHAT…
When I lived in Chinatown you could literally kick any garbage can at night and average 1.4 rats would pop out
They chasin suckas down
Straight handling em, laying on the ground and shit.
Hard pass
Wow….. those rats are huge
Totally ignored on not wanting the duct tape lol
Come to Mumbai… Rat is everywhere
This is stupid.. its 2020 can we just genetically breed a rat that wud be sterile and when they inter breed the others become sterile as well
Rat sightings have reportedly exploded in New York City, according to the New York Times. http://bit.ly/2W1K3iU
Dang those things are big big rats get them get them🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾👈
no gloves?
This is much more environmentally friendly than using poisons and it keeps pets and pet owners active. I see this as an absolute win. Hopefully more people get into rat hunting.
It’s smart for them to have there dogs attack these rodents but do they even clean there dogs mouths afterwards ??
😅😐
Can’t the dogs get sick from biting the rats
Teikashi 69 be like 😭 my babieeeeees 😭😭😭
"Release the hounds" – Mr burns.
White ppl are out of there minds😨
I love the rat dogs keep up the good work people and doggies
Ferrets and minks are the best rat killers
Good crunch good crunch doggy👍🐾🐾
Dogs get health benefits
Di Blasio is the biggest rat in NYC.
My dog skip,Jack Russell wants a job he caught a squirrel.
Who was that man screaming at 0.13?
This is what you do…When you have nothing to do😂
Gawd this guy is such a beta
Imagine if one of the dogs come back with cardi b
Dry ice? Damn
Hungry Chinese people should do the trick
I love NYC, even the rats have attitudes there.
69 is their leader