NEW YORK—Bobby Corrigan, a world-renowned rat expert, grew up in Brooklyn reading mystery novels. He dreamed of being a detective, but instead used his sleuthing instincts and science credentials to become the Sherlock Holmes of rodent control.
One morning this spring, Corrigan, 73, stood in a small auditorium inside New York City’s health department. The room was church-like, with high ceilings, wood-panelled walls and frosted glass windows. Looming behind him, projected on a large screen above a wooden stage, was a whiskered rodent with a long naked tail.
Rodentologist Bobby Corrigan is the lead instructor at New York City’s Rat Academy.
The new push to create a rat management strategy will be our third kick at the can since 2006. We write the rat strategy Toronto never finished.
Two Toronto councillors are asking city staff for a report on rat reduction strategies.
Mountains of trash line the street in New York.
A rodenticide caution sign on a subway station in New York City.
It’s a wonderful time to be a rat in Toronto. But while Chicago and New York are moving aggressively to control the problem, it’s treated here as