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Rats are taking over one Philadelphia neighborhood: 'It's like a catastrophe'

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Rats taking over one Philadelphia neighborhood
"It jumped up on my couch and went on the floor, and it had claws," said Nydra Skinner of the rat problem in Philadelphia's Hunting Park neighborhood.
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