[deleted]

[removed]

[deleted]

We had a bunny rabbit that used to walk down the sidwalk snow canyon and leave little bunny rabbit paw prints on the breeze-blown fresh layer.

If you can read this, commuter bunny, I hope you didn't get eaten by a coyote.

Yeah I'm saying cats can't be unbalancing the food chain as "invasive species" too much because they're down there on the prey scale with the squirrels, rabbits, and other small rodents like mice.

Except cats aren't nearly as capable or inclined to find cover and move from cover to cover like you see rabbits and mice do. And really the near-ubiquity of (particularly) rabbits and such these days, with the noticable corresponding surge of large predator birds in the area, demonstrates the point.

2015 the snow pile was so high at my parents house I had to park elsewhere because I couldn’t see traffic

“hi, Saw rat on Boylston send help. Best, X” With a subject of “Rat” thats still below the 40 character limit that is the length of that email address.

What’s the ecological effect if we just eliminated them?

I once had a landlord that knocked $50 off the rent during the winter to reflect tennant's taking care of snow. I've also had many landlords put it in the lease that it's the tenants problem and just expect you to deal with it. I had one landlord once that was like "if I get fined for snow I'm charging you double the fine". Arse.

Correct, but keep in mind "as long as pedestrians can get by" means wide enough for a stroller/wheelchair, not just boots.

On a standard sized sidewalk that means like 60% of it's width should be clear, and you can push snow to the 20% along each edge.

Nothing worse than trying to get a stroller down the sidewalk when one tire is up on top of somebody's snowpiles.

Correct. During bigger storm, piling more snow on top of the banks the plows made is usually a safe bet.

Weird because I don’t see Brookline needing a “rat overlord” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/nyregion/nyc-rat-control-job.html

That’s one hell of an email address.

[deleted]

It’s illegal to put the snow anywhere

2014 was my breaking point. I moved to San Diego after opening day.

Live in the leather district, no rats!

Not on the street, not on the sidewalk (clear a path wide enough for a wheelchair), so probably in whatever space is left between the cleared part of the sidewalk and the road.

IT WAS YOU!

The most concerning thing about this flyer is that flipping email address.

I don't count hawks eagles and owls in the ranks of small animals haha. I was talking about squirrels, rabbits, and other small rodents like mice.

It’s a 6 hour window, salt it if there’s concerns.

Actually cats are as at risk from these hawks and eagles and owls everybody loves posting pictures of, as sure as any rabbit.

That's clearly not remotely true, Chestnut Hill doesn't have a rat problem, so it's not everywhere in Brookline.

But not if it’s yellow