Residents of New York City, USA, complain of rats living in their cars and damaging the cables. About informs New York Times.
He pointed out that rats sleeping under the hoods of cars are not new to New Yorkers, but there have been numerous calls over the past two years from bodybuilders in many cities about rodent damage to cars.
“I see both new and old cars, now everyone comes up with these mouse problems. It brings me a lot of money, but the problem itself is disgusting,” Ozzy Dayan, a mechanic at Manhattan Auto Repair, shared with the post.
Of the 28 mechanics interviewed by the publication, 20 said there were more customers whose rats had gnawed at the wires in the car in recent years. At the same time, the number of such requests has doubled during the pandemic, according to the masters.
As Fordham University researcher Michael H. Parsons, who conducted a 2020 study on urban rat growth, said, rodents that lose access to traditional food sources adapt and begin to look for new types of food.
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