Posted on 12/15/2016 12:43:56 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Paris is facing its worst rat crisis in decades. Nine parks and green spaces have been closed either partly or entirely. Some, like the Champs de Mars, home to the Eiffel Tower, are being “de-ratisized” in sections.
“I haven’t seen this sort of situation in 39 years,” said Gilles Demodice, a manager in Paris’s animal pest control department, who has spent much of his adult life working for the city.
Some rat-infested places cannot be completely closed, like the shrub-filled Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, which runs through a neighborhood with little green space and is beloved by mothers with strollers as well as joggers — but also, it seems, by packs of rats.
Rat invasion is an old problem in Paris — and a new one — and it is hard to get a grip on. In 2014, the city promised a 100 percent “de-ratization.”
In the 19th century, rats terrified and disgusted Parisians who knew that five centuries earlier, the creatures had brought the bubonic plague across the Mediterranean.
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But why are they proliferating? Could it be everybody’s favorite scapegoat — the European Union and its faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats?
Yes, it could.
New regulations from Brussels, the European Union’s headquarters, have forced countries to change how they use rat poison, said Dr. Jean-Michel Michaux, a veterinarian and head of the Urban Animals Scientific and Technical Institute in Paris.
The old way of poisoning rodents involved a sort of deadly snack service in which park employees put lethal pellets directly into the burrows where the rats lived or sprinkled a poison powder along the underground byways used by the rats.
The poison would cling to the rat’s fur “and then when the rat cleaned itself, licked itself, it absorbed the powder and was automatically poisoned,” Dr. Michaux said.
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Aaaaw,God——and I was just going to get to the kitchen and make a meat loaf.
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Manuel,have you ever heard of the bubonic plague? It was very popular here at one time...
I was wondering the same thing. Why is there half-eaten food on the ground?
Where’s Schmuckie, king O ‘Rats ...
From what I read the real problem is that Parisians are slobs and Paris’ garbage service is not up to the task of removing food sources that the rat prefer to the bait traps. So in a way Paris is deciding how they want to deal with the rat crisis.
The danger to children and domestic animals from open poison sources is real.
They should take them out when they concentrate in the mosques. Oh, wait.
...a 100 percent “de-ratization.”
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Ah, so they are kicking out the muzzards?
RIP Andrew Sachs.
You betcha! A comic genius!
The plague of invaders will soon be bringing in the black plague.
I hear they have a rat problem too.
A rat runs across the kitchen counter and little Pierre fixes an afterschool snack on said counter top...
Paris street after the muslim invasion.
Gag-I was going to grill boneless chicken thighs for dinner-but after seeing that photo I’ve changed my mind-I’m grilling catfish fillets instead...
Even the rodents blame the EU
Put the rat poison on little pork balls, just in case. It could be a dual-purpose cleansing agent.
Egads, that filth left by the Muzzlimes and their filthy “lifestyles” is a veritable rat paradise. You have food, shelter, water—everything a street rodent would love. No wonder Paris is overrun with rats. Clean up the Muzzlimes, the rat problem will resolve.
I just came here to see how long it would take for a Ratatouille reference. Post #4 is a winner!
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