Posted on 08/09/2019 2:43:30 PM PDT by Libloather
The rats were winning.
There were so many earlier this summer outside the CalEPA building in downtown Sacramento officials had to close its outdoor playground out of fear state employees’ kids would catch rodent-borne diseases.
To fight back, building officials set out a controversial type of rat poison whose use may soon be banned statewide by the California Legislature. The poison didn’t stay out very long once word got out the state’s top environmental regulators were using a poison widely condemned by California’s powerful environmental groups.
“Effective immediately, I’m putting a moratorium on the use of rodenticides around the 1001 I Street Building, “ CalEPA agency undersecretary Serena McIlwain said on June 19 in an email to staffers. “We will continue to monitor the situation daily and will work aggressively to find effective, less toxic alternatives.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...
The “new” D-Con that is currently sold in stores is watered down & near useless.
Farm & tractor stores have an exemption for full strength rat & mice poison...you can mail-order it, or visit your local store if you need the real thing.
Unless heaps of rotting food and garbage across the city are eliminated, the rodent infestation will be a never ending problem. Removing the food source is rule number one in the pest abatement biz.
I no longer live in CA, but I will WARN PEOPLE there (and for that matter, elsewhere) that if the banning of a useful chemical is on the radar, then STOCK UP or you may miss your chance to EVER get that chemical again.
In my depository, I have many items that can no longer be purchased by the public, and they still work great! I advise others to NOT WAIT and to move out. At worst, you’ll have a dozen or two bottles of concentrated Round-Up, which is enough to last out our life times and maybe our kids too.
I agree but I wish they would eat those feathered varmints away from the house.
With a few exceptions, not soon enough...just let it start at the top.
Bromadiolone
so far in the article there has been one coyote and one mountain lion death “attributed” to that rat poison or a similar one.
Same kind of geniuses who banned DDT. If they come out with a cure for cancer some idiot will want it banned in California.
That's the problem, not enough kitties to get the rats. They control urban birds, too.
I think Lefty has a reason to NOT exterminate the rats. Lefty is registering them to vote.
ditto
If they kill too many, then they will become an endangered species, and will have to be protected from being harmed.
I got to know an exterminator who worked in my building in Boston where I once lived.
He told me the exact same thing was happening there - bans put on effective poisons and methods of extermination. He was so frustrated and said ‘ Soon we’ll be using methods from the 19th century ‘.
This was 7 years ago.
Boston is overrun with rats and mice at this point from what zI have heard.
Rats just like bacteria become resistant to poisons eventually. The only solution long term is to cut off the food supply by properly disposing of garbage.IE stop living like slobs
Sacramento is full of rats.
The City of Trees (literally) and two rivers through town.
No way to eradicate them. There are millions. Big ones.
“Are the rats so big that a good feral kitty can’t take them out?”
Rats here are BIG.
Cats avoid them and focus on birds.
The ‘RAT’ poison was killing too many politicians.
Ding, Ding,Ding. But that will not happen.
Ask Hawaii how their answer to this problem worked out. Now they have a problem with rats and mongoose.
We know about the problem with rats and disease. But mongooses also have a long history of agricultural impacts since their introduction to Hawaii in the 1880s. they have a history of attacks of mongooses on farmed eggs, chickens and ducks in Kaimuki. On Maui, damages led to a bounty of 10 cents for every mongoose head turned in.
To understand how mongooses had become such a problem, consider the math. Mongooses can produce an average of 36 young in a lifetime (approximately 4 years). The original introduction to Maui was 72 mongooses in 1883. If just half were female, and half of them survived, this would mean that there were 648 offspring produced in the next 4 years. If half of those were female, and if only half of those females survived to produce offspring, the second generation would result in 5,832 offspring. At this same rate, by 1916 there could have been millions of mongooses on Maui. We’re long past that.
And how about their pig problem or chicken problem. They introduced all these to the islands and now they are up to their armpits in them. Sometimes, man has no idea what he does. I think Christ said that.
rwood
“”will work aggressively to find effective, less toxic alternatives.””
To ensure this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN! One thing bureaucrats are good for - speak in platitudes.
Why are playgrounds provided for state government employees children?
Just tell the muzzies that rats are an aphrodisiac. They’ll be gone in a week.
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