Posted on 08/23/2018 4:03:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rat complaints are soaring, and D.C. is doubling down on its efforts to kill them
Rats are overrunning D.C., and the city has tried everything from dry ice to solar trash cans to control the population.
By Rachel Chason, John D. Harden and Chris Alcantara Aug. 23, 2018
They scurry across alleyways. They chew through trash cans. They make a sound that’s something between a hiss and a chatter.
And despite the District’s efforts, the number of rats in Washington seems to be growing.
Complaints to 311 about rodents in the nation’s capital reached an all-time high in 2017 — totaling 5,310, a 50 percent increase from 2016 — and are on track to increase in 2018.
[‘Never seen it like this’: Meet D.C.’s rat rat, the person who has filed the most rodent complaints with the city]
“It’s an eternal war,” said Mark Eckenwiler, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission member who lives on Capitol Hill. “You can kill them in one location and they pop up in another.”
The Washington Post examined more than 15,000 rat complaints reported to the District government over more than five years. In some of the city’s most densely populated areas, where trendy bars and restaurants have proliferated, complaints have increased at staggering rates: Shaw saw a 436 percent increase in complaints from 2014 to 2017, Columbia Heights a 449 percent increase and Capitol Hill a 430 percent increase.
D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), whose ward includes Capitol Hill, said he began hearing more complaints about a year and a half ago, when “people started seeing this explosion of the rat population.”
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D.C. was built in swampland that no one wanted. Surprise! Rats!
I thought that they were a protected class in DC.
Oh, they’re talking the four legged kind.
Start in congress, work your way out.
She kinda reminds me of a person in Planet Of The Apes.
You think that the Washington Post would cover their valued customers in a bad light?
Bring out the rat terriers! and the Jack Russells, too!
Contraceptive bait. It works, haven’t they heard?
No...they are all in a sewer on the other side of town. TG we have The Donald...the Exterminator!
Rat complaints are soaring, and D.C. is doubling down on its efforts to kill them
Isn’t that illegal? Hope they get more Dems than Republican..
I, for one, find that DC IS overrun with ‘Rats.
No real news there.
A YUGE problem that needs to be fixed though.
By now, it’s well known liberal wing nuts leave tons of litter behind at their protests.
Why should it be any different where they proliferate?
Meanwhile the Humane(?) Society and PETA are busy killing thousands of cats.
Jen Psaki
Did they mention global warming? I’m sure that’s the root of the problem.
Oh, and Pres. Trump, of course.
And don’t forget those pesky Rooskies.
Napalm is the only answer. Napalm the city.
Looks like DC could use more kitty cats.
The media is blaming the Ratskis...
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