What the hell-doesn’t animal friendly Peta-worshiping Cali have any cats in their animal shelters that could be fed by city workers so they would stay around and kill rats? Or what about a rodent specific poison so the cats and other predators would not be harmed-the exterminators in the nearest big town advertise one.
The kitties in this rural area keep the rat/mouse population well in check-everyone has a cat or 3 that are either strictly indoor or indoor/outdoor pets, and there are a few feral cats around that get fed for their work as well. My spoiled indoor cats don’t let a living rodent get past the door to the outdoor storeroom-or a lizard or bug for that matter...
I don’t comprehend why Cali makes every problem they have into a major disaster in no time at all-you would think living with earthquakes would have taught them to deal with small stuff...
There was a Plague outbreak in 1900-1904 in San Fransisco’s Chinatown.
It was detected early on, but the city fathers simply refused to acknowledge that there could be plague in Their Fair City.
As a result they fiddle-farted around for years before doing anything effectual. Plague spread from the street and sewer rats to the local ground squirrel population and thence now uncontainable, to the entire western US.
Any parallels one may wish to draw to a more recent gayer plague are purely coincidence.
Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Today, the third lesson is massive quantities of un-screened un-quarantined, untreated, diseased invaders in every city and burg nation wide.
Passing grade is stopping an emerging disease early and well.
Failing grade is death.
Disneyland used to feed dozens of neutered cats who lived there and kept the mouse population in check. We used to go to their secret lair and say hi to the cats. I don’t have season passes any more so I have no idea if they still have the cats.