As rats swarm California cities, Gov. Newsom
bans popular poison to protect wildlife
Sacramento Bee [CA],
by
Ryan Sabalow
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/30/2020 9:27:35 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday that seeks to protect mountain lions and other wildlife from being poisoned by a popular form of pesticide. The move raises questions about how the state will manage its growing urban rat population, which some experts say is surging due to the spread of homeless camps across California. (Snip) Pest control companies, the California Chamber of Commerce, apartment management associations and other business groups opposed the bill. They say the poisons are critical to controlling a rat and mouse population that has exploded in some major California cities, often in
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 9/30/2020 9:36:07 AM (No. 557276)
Greenie Weenies, dismantling civilization one brick at a time. Take away electrical power, then take away normal cars, then let the homeless and their rats swarm the cities.
Destruction is their plan, clearly.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
paral04 9/30/2020 9:37:49 AM (No. 557277)
Wildlife in San Francisco? The only things wild there are the Democrats.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JL80863 9/30/2020 9:47:28 AM (No. 557292)
Next thing you know CA will be building rat shelters in response to all the homeless rats in the state's cities.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/30/2020 10:04:54 AM (No. 557315)
The only problem, or good thing depending on your viewpoint is killing rats sometimes gets DemocRATS by mistake.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 9/30/2020 10:05:33 AM (No. 557317)
I live in the suburbs of San Jose Ca and can tell you the rodent population has exploded in the past few years. Everyone I know is battling them. It didn’t use to be like this. Coincidently, at about the same time my city’s mayor moved a lot of the homeless out of downtown San Jose out into the general area I live in. Ya think there’s a connection?
Ah and in other news, we just had our second murder in a month at a local, used-to-be-nice hotel. Turns out early-released prisoners with Covid are being housed In the hotel until they no longer test positive and can find housing. Everything they need is brought to them, at our cost. We weren’t told this was happening - our neighborhood just found this out. Great when your government takes care of you. No, I never voted these people into office but common sense is in short supply in the Bay Area.
I have an exit strategy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/30/2020 10:10:28 AM (No. 557319)
It takes a 'Rat to protect rats at people's expense. Had enough of Governor Winsome?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 9/30/2020 10:15:35 AM (No. 557324)
This is a product that has been in the pipeline for quite a few years. Simply put it isn't lethal to the rats, but if they eat it, they become sterile. https://senestech.com/ It originated because so much of the grain production annually is destroyed by rodents worldwide. Of course with everything it has people on both sides saying it is good or bad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/30/2020 10:19:52 AM (No. 557326)
Agree with OP. The problem is what is encouraging the rats - the homeless camps. Get rid of them,you'll get rid of the rats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/30/2020 10:32:26 AM (No. 557337)
Feed the rats to the homeless Mountain Lion Lives Matter.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/30/2020 10:55:42 AM (No. 557364)
Another typical environmental policy that does more damage than it does good. How many mountain lions die each year from rat poison? How many die from legal hunting? How many die from being hit by cars? How many die from illegal poaching? Rat Lives Matter.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PageTurner 9/30/2020 11:02:55 AM (No. 557371)
Rats Have Rights. Leftists actually think this, there's a whole movement out there called just that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 9/30/2020 12:14:46 PM (No. 557446)
I seem to recall that the Bubonic Plague hit Europe a few times by its transmission in the fleas living on...wait for it...rats and mice.
I guess Newsome is more concerned with the welfare of mountain lions than with his voters' welfare...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 9/30/2020 12:23:28 PM (No. 557461)
#4, when I was in college, I'd help a chicken farmer friend by coming to his chicken houses to shoot rats with .22 rifles. We had to be sure to not hit the chickens and stop all bullets on a large wooden beam to avoid punching holes in the roof. We could fill a bucket in a few hours, probably 150 rats. So......rats beware.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/30/2020 1:31:03 PM (No. 557509)
One of my most fondest desires is for Gavin Newscum to be perp walked out of the governor's mansion and prosecuted for all the harm he is doing to that once glorious state. Does he not care he is now inviting the plague into his state? For that is something those rats and their fleas carry. Not just plague, but legionnaires as well from their feces.
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Gov. Gavin either doesn't know or doesn't care that -- by prohibiting these rodenticides -- this new law gives "sensitive species like mountain lions a fighting chance," at the price of denying a fighting chance to ‘homo sapiens urbanae.’
Fortunately, the latter have the right to vote.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 9/30/2020 3:51:07 PM (No. 557621)
Exactly, OP...problem solved....win/win!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 9/30/2020 4:21:19 PM (No. 557638)
One really doesn't have to have homeless folks to have rats in your yard. My husband and I Iive in the country and my neighbors have horses on one side, another has sheep and another has chickens, and I love feeding the wild birds. With that situation, the rats showed up, My neighbor's cats got the mice and my .22 took care of the rats (23 in one week). Poison didn't work. That was last year, so far, none this year.
With poison you don't know where the rat will end up, but with a bullet you know.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/30/2020 5:42:10 PM (No. 557700)
The only way CA will get cleaned up is when The Big One sends it into the Pacific.
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Gov. Brylcreem makes another brilliant move. Had enough, California residents?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
XCenturion 10/1/2020 3:10:46 AM (No. 558049)
California can control it's rat infestation problem by voting Democrats out of office.
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