Rats in DC - will we have typhus soon like LA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda poster,

Where exactly have you seen them? I am not all that surprised but I am there at night and have personally never seen one.

NP- I saw one last week on Auburn at 7:30 PM. Crawled right out of a street trash can and down the street.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe DC outranks San Francisco in rattiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Require nighty pickup of garbage at every single food establishment.

This is the best way to get a grip.
Eliminate the source of unlimited food.

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of ways. There was a huge Post expose on this this summer. What shocked me was the Mayor "upped" the budget/personnel and it's still shockingly small for a city of our size and density. When you think of the random stuff our very sufficient taxes get spent on.... why doesn't she have her crony developers put some "skin in the game"? A rat tax?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of ways. There was a huge Post expose on this this summer. What shocked me was the Mayor "upped" the budget/personnel and it's still shockingly small for a city of our size and density. When you think of the random stuff our very sufficient taxes get spent on.... why doesn't she have her crony developers put some "skin in the game"? A rat tax?

Good question. She doesn't much care about the exploding rat population, does she?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of ways. There was a huge Post expose on this this summer. What shocked me was the Mayor "upped" the budget/personnel and it's still shockingly small for a city of our size and density. When you think of the random stuff our very sufficient taxes get spent on.... why doesn't she have her crony developers put some "skin in the game"? A rat tax?

Good question. She doesn't much care about the exploding rat population, does she?

I dont know if its exploding though certainly every new restaurant means many more rats....but rats in DC generally have been an issue forever. You should see the night camera footage of them frolicking in Lafayette park across from White House. Horrifying! What's annoying is the lack of urgency in addressing this continued problem. Presumably in the last two decades there have been improvements in rat eradication?

[Anonymous]

I have seem them in Bethesda...In the parking lot where Piassno's was and at the corner of St. Elmo and Norfolk (large mice or small rats). They are by the sewers on Old Georgetown Road often enough. I also see them by North Bethesda middle school when I go for night runs.

[Anonymous]

This is absolutely filthy.

[Anonymous]

I've seen them frolicking in the lawn in the late afternoon in a property nearby to whole foods in tenleytown.

[Anonymous]

I had some mice in my house and I got kill traps. Snap traps and electrocution. Many many many people told me that I should get non-lethal traps and release them "in the woods" (whatever that means). I kill 'em and throw them in the garbage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a foreigner and I feel like Americans don't care about rats or mice. They try to control the number of cats (try to adopt one and you will see!), but not rats. Jerry is a hero, Tom is the villain. Mickey, Stuart Little, and Ratatouille are all American creations, great childhood heroes.

In my country, it is not okay to have rats running on your backyard overnight. Here, it's common and it doesn't even matter if it's in a wealthy or poor neighborhood.

That being said, maybe a typhus outbreak would solve this problem.

We might need to go there. Or bounties for skins? Does dcs animal humane laws of catch and release apply.to rats? I'm shocked that in 2019 no one has developed a way to sterilize them??? So gross. They totally play where kids play in DC - watch out for those sandboxes.

Bounties for rat skins is a great idea. You also get experience points early in the game that way, and can level up before fighting with a human opponent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had some mice in my house and I got kill traps. Snap traps and electrocution. Many many many people told me that I should get non-lethal traps and release them "in the woods" (whatever that means). I kill 'em and throw them in the garbage.

The woods in DC would basically be rock creek park...which is DC....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had some mice in my house and I got kill traps. Snap traps and electrocution. Many many many people told me that I should get non-lethal traps and release them "in the woods" (whatever that means). I kill 'em and throw them in the garbage.

The woods in DC would basically be rock creek park...which is DC....

Right, they’re basically suggesting I release them to infest someone else’s home just so I feel good about not killing them.

[Anonymous]

I’m actually hoping we get a disease problem with rats in DC.

Because I know that THEN, DC will finally get serious about controlling rats.

[Anonymous]

This is why I live in Potomac. I need clean and private .