"buck-a-rat"
No, say you find a nest with 15 baby's and Mom, that should be worth $25 bucks or more, if alive $50. for the lot.
You see Rugnuts, the prebreaders are the ones we need to catch first. Every baby caught is really worth more then a full grown male rat. It is the baby's and the mothers we need to catch first-----highest price for them, Male rats half of that.
Huge problem for NYC, 4 times the human population, they are everywhere. They have little fear of humans as they coexist with them. Rats have no toilets or wash their paws, they spread horrid disease where ever they go.
The small Rats that we call Mice are just little fellers that unless you have a cat go unnoticed, until then they are climbing and peeing on the dishes and flat ware in the kitchen, all over the bathroom, spreading their pee in the cosmetic or on a bar of soap. Froliking in the baby's crib, running across the furniture and peeing on everything---mice pee allot.
This is a big problem, if the health laws were relaxed a bit and restaurants and food vender's could go to the SPCA and get a couple of Rat Killers, but no, no cats allowed in any area of food for sale, sorry they say but cats have owners and Rats are free lance.---------------------BTW Deadely rat poison is allowed near food in a restaurant but a Cat to catch them is considered a health hazard.
I would feel safe eating in a restaurant that had 2 or 3 well behaved cats, those that just sat and watched out the the window or behind the counter while customers were dining. I would come back for a meal knowing that there would be no rodent pee or poop in my dinner, or no new hire mistook the rat poison for salt.
