Cats in the Middle East
In our whole trip to the middle east (about 2.5 weeks), we saw 1 rat. This is not because the streets are clean and all garbage is carefully locked away and everything is hermetically sealed. Far from it. Streets run the gamut from dirt to cobblestone to paved, and garbage is typically left on the side of the street in open plastic bags. Buildings are (literally) ancient, with electric and plumbing exposed. I think the reason that the streets are not overrun with rats (as, for example, on Howard Street in NYC, or 5th Street in LA) is because there are cats *everywhere*. There were cats that looked like they were mostly indoor cats, and cats that were definitely feral. One could say that replacing one feral species with another is not much of an upgrade, but I would beg to differ. It was a pleasure seeing the cats, which I can never say about rats.
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