[Animals] Alert in the United Kingdom for rats "the size of cats" that come out of toilets

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The Covid-19 pandemic produced great changes at the labor level. Remote work increased in many cities around the world and, although in some places in Europe they returned to face-to-face work with the drop in infections, other companies preferred to keep working from home.

But, this lack of work on site caused that there is not so much food abandoned in the city centers, so in the United Kingdom there was a plague of rats "the size of cats" that invade the toilets of the po[CENSORED]tion.
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With their highly flexible bones that allow them to fit into pipes and their ability to breathe underwater for more than three minutes, these rodents are ideally suited to take up residence in home toilets.

“Right now there is a lot of food for rats, with ripe fruit and harvest crops, so the rat po[CENSORED]tion is currently peaking,” Paul Bates, representative of Cleankill Pest Control, told the British newspaper The Sun. .

The Norwich City Council, in the east of England, made some recommendations to citizens to avoid this problem. These include keeping the toilet lid closed and always lowering the chain before using it. In addition, they warn that the doors of the garages and the entrances must remain well closed so that these rodents cannot get through.

 

 

As the UK braces for one of the coldest seasons in 30 years, rats are looking for food and warmth in homes. They feed on human feces and dead rodents first, then enter the home in search of fresh food.

Rats of more than 30 centimeters can cause damage to the wiring, because with their sharp teeth they break the electricity cables, a situation that could cause a fire, and destroy the interior system of cars.
This plague not only scares the inhabitants of homes, but it can also cause illness and become a public health problem. According to information from The Sun, Peter Higgs, director of PGH Pest Control, assured that most rats have Weil's disease in their system, an infection that humans can contract through the urine of the infected species and which, without treatment, causes fever, bleeding and even death.

 

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