{"id":325988,"date":"2025-10-23T08:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325988\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:13:32","slug":"coney-island-residents-say-rats-are-keeping-cats-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325988\/","title":{"rendered":"Coney Island residents say rats are keeping cats away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Coney Island residents say they\u2019re fed up with rats running around their neighborhood and even keeping\u00a0cats away from West 32nd Street between Surf Avenue and the Coney Island boardwalk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rats [are] chasing you,\u201d said Tammy, of Coney Island. \u201cThey\u2019re not even scared of you. My dog [is] running from them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come this way, back and forth, back and forth,\u201d said Elaine, of Coney Island. \u201cAnd late at night, you\u2019re scared to take the garbage out.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come right out to our feet,\u201d said Suzanne Hernandez, of Coney Island. \u201cThey\u2019re all over us.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez said it\u2019s a turf war between rats and cats &#8211; and the cats don&#8217;t stand a rat&#8217;s chance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez told News 12 that she runs a trap, neuter and release program for the neighborhood cats that are feral or dumped in the area.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of [the cats]\u00a0are in very bad condition,\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to trap them now and get them medical help.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Hernandez said that as soon as she puts out food and traps for the cats, the rats are already taking over. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s impossible,\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cThe cats don\u2019t want to go into the trap because the rats are going into the traps.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said they\u2019ve filed multiple 311 complaints.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/catrat2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Coney Island residents say they\u2019re fed up with rats running around their neighborhood and even keeping\u00a0cats away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[162452,5229,4653,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7835,27029,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-325988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-abandoned-cats","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cats","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-rats","18":"tag-trash","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115422482436151681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}