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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baiting, poisoning, trapping, birth control etc do not do anything against rats if there is food out at night. You can kill 95% of rats in a couple block area, but if there is food for remaining, the 5% remaining will eat it and will reproduce in numbers and rates to come back to high population in a matter of a few weeks.

It is very important to combat the idea that cities automatically come with rats. DC is now third or fourth in rat population out of 200 US cities. The causal problem in DC is that all restaurants in DC know there is no inspection or ticketing of commercial garbage overflow at night. So the rats can freely feed all night from the half the DC restaurants that habitually leave garbage out in open containers, overflowing containers, or plastic bags right on the ground overnight.

Secondarily, [b]virtually all of the "streatery" planforms are wood or plastic with gaps chewed in them[/b]. The DPW and DOT works do not want to even lift them a bit since they are full of rats. They are a big part of the increase.[/quote]

From the broken, ugly condition of the Jersey barriers that "protect" the streatery platforms, the rats may be chewing gaps in the concrete also![/quote]

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