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A couple years back Boston worked togeht with all gvt. agencies and everyone and undertook a massive public works project to make most of Boston pretty rat free compared to NYC.
Why is this so hard for the richest city in the US (and most of the world) to do ?
Can you explain what they did? Was it pesticides? Traps? Did the city spend money to block up holes in individual homes? Did they change methods of dealing with trash? Did they penalize lax landlords?
Trust me-Boston is not rat free. And it's not as though NYC is overrun with rats. I've seen them in the subway--hardly surprising--and Central Park. That's it.
But seriously, I've been reading articles about rats and super rats. Many were displaced during Sandy (no FEMA help for them) from the tunnels. During the clean up, they found many dead rats. Scientists have been doing some animal behavior studies to determine the characteristics of the rats who had the intelligence and survival skills to live through the flooding. It's believed that these smarter rats will breed, creating a more intelligent/hardier breed of rats that are going to be harder to get rid of. You know, survival of the fittest.
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