Tree House Humane Society s Sarah Liss told WGN 9 last weekend that the operation seems to be working. We’ve had a lot of our clients tell us that before they had cats, they would step outside their house and rats would actually run across their feet, she said. They are actually deterring them with their pheromones. That’s enough to keep the rats away, Liss said.
Tree House Humane Society s Cats at Work program was initiated in 2012 in an effort to both combat the issue using an environmentally friendly control method and help what they call community cats.
The feral cats – which have been rescued, neutered and vaccinated – are placed two or three at a time into residential or commercial settings under the care of a registered caretaker.
First Published: 12:31 PM PDT, May 12, 2021
The Tree House Humane Society s Cats at Work program offers an environmentally friendly solution to sending the city s rats running from the streets.
In Chicago, a variation on the Pied Piper method is driving rats from the Windy City.
Feral cats, some 1,000 of them, have been dispatched to deal with a very large rodent problem.
Tree House Humane Society releases the cats into Chicago streets under its Cats at Work program. The rescue captures the felines and neuters them, then releases them in rat-infested neighborhoods to battle the vermin population.
It is an environmentally friendly solution that results in rats running for the hills, put off by cat pheromones, the rescue says on its website.