# Taipei rat problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Pets & Domestic Animals\ **Created:** [December 19, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885 "2021-12-19T03:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DogmaticStoic](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/dogmaticstoic/32/179644_2.png) [@DogmaticStoic](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/DogmaticStoic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/21 "2022-01-11T09:19:43Z")
Godamn there’s so many rats in this city ---
**Author:** ![Membrillo](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/membrillo/32/139669_2.png) [@Membrillo](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Membrillo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/22 "2022-01-11T09:36:26Z")
Take a walk at night in a traditional market and you will see them partying around on the tables they will use to cut the meat in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![the\_bear](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/the_bear/32/192391_2.png) [@the\_bear](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/the_bear)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/23 "2022-01-11T09:41:51Z")
Loads in my alley. Had one in my room last week so I went round locating the points of ingress. The big ones stay in the street. Only the little ones get up to my roof. ---
**Author:** ![Bree](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/bree/32/270345_2.png) [@Bree](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bree)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/24 "2022-01-11T10:37:11Z")
I often wonder why the rats want to be on my tin roof. They are very loud, but don’t sound different than squirrels on the roof. Why the roof of the fifth floor? No food up there. I put out poison, but it remains untouched. ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/25 "2022-01-11T12:13:24Z")
you need a cat. Only a cat will truly keep rats away. Not those cats you buy from the shop, you want those born to feral cats. Ones that loves to bite or something. They’re murder cats. ---
**Author:** ![Marco](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marco/32/179744_2.png) [@Marco](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Marco)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/26 "2022-01-11T12:21:22Z")
> [@bdog](#): > > wasn’t the most well thought through idea, as the tidal wave of rat shit rebounded off the back wall and washed up against my bare shins, :rofl: Ok… that’s enough forumosa for today. ---
**Author:** ![chilifries](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/chilifries/32/182980_2.png) [@chilifries](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/chilifries)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/27 "2022-01-12T00:07:52Z")
Not ALL rats are useless. > **[Magawa, the landmine-sniffing hero rat, dies aged eight](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59951255)** > > Magawa was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing landmines in Cambodia. ---
**Author:** ![Belgian\_Pie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@Belgian\_Pie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Belgian_Pie)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/28 "2022-01-12T05:16:21Z")
> [@Bree](#): > > I put out poison, but it remains untouched. They quietly laugh about you trying poisoning them. ---
**Author:** ![bdog](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@bdog](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/bdog)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/29 "2022-01-12T05:24:12Z")
I saw them spraying at the markets near me. They just go up one side spraying the ground, turn around and go back. They come through after everything is shut obviously. I say obviously, but there are a couple of places that just stay open all the time in this market, one of them a fruit and veg place. They just sprayed around the table legs while all the fruit and veg were out on the table. ---
**Author:** ![mad\_masala](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/mad_masala/32/182103_2.png) [@mad\_masala](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/mad_masala)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/30 "2022-01-12T05:59:00Z")
Somewhere in Neihu there’s an MRT station behind which there’s what seems to be a garbage collection centre (I have no idea what the actual name should be). It’s rank. You can see moving heaps of rats trembling in frenzy. Between revolting and terrifying. ---
**Author:** ![DonR](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@DonR](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/DonR)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/31 "2022-01-12T05:59:56Z")
Mix it with peanut butter and they’ll be me likely to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/32 "2022-01-12T06:00:09Z")
The shop I used to be in, people would regularly drop garbage in the dead of the night off the corner of the street. When I walk by I can see hordes of rats covering going in and out of the garbage bag. I can’t believe that nobody did anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![mad\_masala](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/mad_masala/32/182103_2.png) [@mad\_masala](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/mad_masala)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/33 "2022-01-12T06:01:54Z")
Funny that you guys are talking about this. I was talking about the very same thing last weekend to some folks that seemed to be unaware of how bad it can be this problem in some parts of the city. Now, there’s four legged rats and two legged rats… ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/34 "2022-01-12T06:41:44Z")
There’s also rats with wings… ---
**Author:** ![Belgian\_Pie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@Belgian\_Pie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Belgian_Pie)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885/35 "2022-01-12T09:21:14Z")
> [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](#): > > There’s also rats with wings… They are good to eat. [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taipei-rat-problem/214885.md?page=1)