Rat problem: Animal shelter releases 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets

In pairs of two or three, the feral animals are placed into residential or commercial settings to provide “environmentally friendly rodent control.”

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In exchange, property and business owners provide the furry pest controllers with food, water, and shelter.

“In most cases, our Cats at Work become beloved members of the family or team and some even have their own Instagram pages,” the shelter’s website says.

Chicago’s problem with rats stretches to 1977 when the city offered a $1 bounty for each rat killed by residents, in a so-called “war on rats.”

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