‘A very New York experience’

An excerpt from a New York Post profile piece of Suzanne Reisman, leader of the Garbage & Rats in NYC walking tour.

Clad in fuzzy, faux rat ears like a bizarro Mouseketeer, the varmint savant takes guests through some of the city’s most rat-infested sites while spilling retch-worthy facts on the critters’ habits, à la a sanitation history lesson meets an urban wildlife safari.

“Rats love to go up to the poop!” she enthused to entranced rodent tourists during a recent tour as she discussed the delicacy of canine excrement.

“They’ll kick through it, find the undigested kibble,” she explained to the curious crowd. “I mean, dog poop is disgusting, but anyway, I do not ever pass by dog poop anymore without thinking, ‘Oh, it’s a rat snack.’”

The piece also quoted a “rat tourist” from Boston who attended a tour:

We saw live rats. We saw a pancake [squashed flat] rat. We saw a guy throwing up in a gutter. It was a very New York experience overall that my kids don’t get to always see in the Massachusetts suburbs.