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Could Los Angeles become the ‘rattiest’ city in the United States?
KTLA ^ | February 21, 2025 | Nancy Loo

Posted on 02/21/2025 8:00:16 AM PST by artichokegrower

California is the only state to ban the most lethal type of rat poison, so more rodents are living large these days, especially in Los Angeles.

According to pest control experts, the rat population is booming, and service calls are way up.

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As a result, there has been a ballooning rodent population. Some say this could lead to a potential public health crisis.

Chicago has claimed the top spot as the United States’ rattiest city for 10 years straight, and Los Angeles is at No. 2.


We’re number 1!

1 posted on 02/21/2025 8:00:16 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Are we talking about the biped version...or the 4 legged one?


2 posted on 02/21/2025 8:05:48 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: artichokegrower

Plague is right around the corner.


3 posted on 02/21/2025 8:05:49 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: artichokegrower

Rats and smelts are the safest residents of California.


4 posted on 02/21/2025 8:06:51 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: artichokegrower

When we lived in the LA area we used to see thousands of rats and rodents running along the power lines. Rodent freeways in the air.


5 posted on 02/21/2025 8:08:28 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower

This state is so screwed up it may never recover Before its total collapse is complete it will become the LGBTQ and Trannie capital of the world.

Additionally, all migrant criminals and sex offenders will move in.

Already perverts can have sex with animals and even some types of ocean mammals. At present the horse is the animal of choice amongst mentally sick perverts.

Dr. Phil has stated that if one MUST have sex with an animal make certain it’s a horse. That way one will always have a ride home.


6 posted on 02/21/2025 8:08:34 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: artichokegrower

LOST Angeles.


7 posted on 02/21/2025 8:15:44 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)
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To: artichokegrower

Anyone here driven through some of the side streets and side cities?

I’m sure there’s worse but our church goes down to help the homeless and there’s just too many poor, too much despair.


8 posted on 02/21/2025 8:16:35 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Proponents had pushed for the ban on “anticoagulant rodenticides” to protect pets and wildlife that might feed off toxic dead rats.

I once bought a notorious rat house in an otherwise lovely neighborhood, and the exterminator tried to sell me some rather expensive rat poison. I expressed some concern that dead rats full of anticoagulant poison might be detrimental to the local free range cats, and the neighbors' dogs that are penned but often encountered rats in the dog runs. The exterminator swore to me that anticoagulants magically cease working after killing the rats that ingest them, so the local pets were safe.

So, I concluded, all the surviving rats on the premises would get free, protein-rich dinners, to help them get through winter, in good shape for breeding?

Instead I got some clever traps, shored up the entry points around the house, and the cameras haven't recorded a rat in over two years.

If you can possibly avoid it, avoid anticoagulant poisons. Rats are not as stupid as mice but they can always be outsmarted; and sealing up entrances is not rocket science either.

9 posted on 02/21/2025 8:24:33 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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The fires will kill the rats.


10 posted on 02/21/2025 8:24:50 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Buttons12

We live in a condo complex where lots of units are rented to Section 8 tenants. So there are rats. We’ve found that baiting traps with marshmallows is extremely effective.


11 posted on 02/21/2025 8:28:32 AM PST by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Buttons12

A mixture of oats and plaster of paris works.


12 posted on 02/21/2025 8:31:27 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

ahahaha! Sadly true.


13 posted on 02/21/2025 8:32:22 AM PST by Irenic
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To: ABStrauss

“Dr. Phil has stated that if one MUST have sex with an animal make certain it’s a horse.”

sorry but that is just gross.

one can only hope the horse kicks them in the nuts and they are then permanently castrated


14 posted on 02/21/2025 8:32:33 AM PST by algore
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Nothin in LA that a Good Earthquake couldn’t fix—like maybe a nine point six on the Ricter Scale, centered on City Hall. Maybe with a good fire to follow?


15 posted on 02/21/2025 8:36:15 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: algore

One sick-o who frequented a animal sex farm outside SF was killed when the horse ruptured his bowels, He should have stuck with rabbits.


16 posted on 02/21/2025 8:40:14 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: artichokegrower
Time for my favorite essay on American Thinker.

Pigeons, Rats, and Democrats.

17 posted on 02/21/2025 8:43:07 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: artichokegrower

We were in a Denny’s restaurant once in Orange County, near No-Bueno Park, we just sat down and I looked up at the ceiling light fixture and we saw the perfect silhouette of a large fat rat walking along the transparent plastic cover. I jumped up and pointed at it, and the old ladies sitting across from us went into hysteric trying to get out of their booth.

Gak~


18 posted on 02/21/2025 8:48:33 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Both.


19 posted on 02/21/2025 8:56:49 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DownInFlames

Not that the Commiefornia lefties don’t deserve it.


20 posted on 02/21/2025 8:57:15 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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