The proposed law bans exterminators killing rats, so it will fail.
They’ll come back with a hunting and fishing ban later, and that will probably succeed.
At which point, poaching game will skyrocket. I know hunters and fishermen. If they don’t have a legal regulated sport, they go off reservation and kill everything everywhere. And be protected by all their local buddies.
Portland may get more than it bargained for.
What they ultimately want is to ban all sale of meat.
I kill rats. 24/7. We have what is referred to here as tree rats. They are heavy in old growth areas like ours, especially next to a golf course. I have bait stations on the top rails of my fence that I refill all the time. No need for an exterminator. lol
“If they don’t have a legal regulated sport, they go off reservation and kill everything everywhere.”
Obviously your friends are conservationists. /S