[Noisebridge-discuss] The rats are getting ballsy

[krux at thcnet.net]

> This is extreme.  The rats are a serious health threat -- vermin.  If
> we had a roach infestation would you advocate catch-and-release of
> them?  Do you swat mosquitoes? What about all those microbes you
> slaughter when you wash yourself?  Where would we release them?  By
> encouraging them to leave, we make them someone else's problem, and
> others will kill them.  Do you really have the moral high-ground?

I agree with you here.  From friends in New York, where rats/mice are a pretty
big problem, electric traps are a fairly effective, clean, and humane method
of killing them.  You need to more powerful electric traps for use with rats,
since their hearts will restart when using the weaker mouse models.  However
you still need to find where they are coming into the space, and do what you
can to prevent entry, as well as eliminate food waste and such that is going
to prove a great attractor of them.  Remember that rats are pretty smart
rodents, so if there is a way to get in, they'll find it.

> I've had rats as pets.  Tame ones are great pets and I wouldn't dream
> of harming them, but we need to be pragmatic here.

I have as well.  If they didn't start making me break out in hives, I'd
probably still have them as pets.

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