In response the NCC has made the brilliant decision to lay out poison to rid of the pests.
The NCC, which is responsible for Confederation Park, initially tasked its groundskeepers with clearing out the rats. When the rodent population continued to rise, it hired a company in September to install eight poison bait stations in fenced-off areas. The hope is that once a rat eats the bait, it falls ill and crawls back into its nest to die. The carcass then poisons neighbouring rats.
Already there are reports of dead birds, chipmunks, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, ground hogs, cats. What were they thinking???
Surely even buracrats with our bottmless wallets and their limitless superior knowledge could have come up with something better then this?
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They need to call up Billy the Exterminator! Ick I am still waiting for rat sightings in my city as we are so close to the Sask border and they are apparently still having a problem in Swift Current (though the council has been saying there is no longer a problem, I know farmers and townspeople there who were still seeing them this summer). "Nothing to see here folks, that's just a rather large field mouse" haha.
Anyway I thought in today's day of enviro-friendly products and more awareness of our deeds, the town would have been up to speed on better ways to deal with the rats. This has been in the news for over a year, has it not? Time to get prepared???
It reminds me of a local story here that happened in the last week. A man was bit by a rattlesnake at work and brought to our regional hospital - to be told first that they did not have any anti-venom. HELLO?! Our college team is actually CALLED 'the Rattlers' because we have snakies around these here parts. There was a junior on the road about 100 yards from my house last week in fact... but we had no anti-venom? Then he was told they do, but it's expired. Nice one! So he went to a tiny little hospital about 45 mins away and got some there instead. But on the news the other night, some doc that is head of Emergency something-or-other said that the system WORKED. He said they did have anti-venom. I'm not quite sure what he was talking about, since the man had to be taken by his boss to a totally diff hospital. If we had it, and the system worked, why did he have to go elsewhere? The other nurses said if it was a child instead of an adult, there could have been serious consequences... but hey, the system worked according to the head dude. "Nothing to see here folks, move along".
Kez re the system works, we recently had a situation where a woman that was raped, late Saturday night, was told she had to wait until in a hospital bed, unwashed and unchanged until Monday morning because a qualified person wouldn't be available to do the rape kit until then. This hospital actually was the go to place with a special unit to handle these sorts of cases. WTF????
She ended up going to a small town an hour and a half away to get it done, sure the police drove her there and help her hand but that is supposed to be providing service? Apparently, according to some of my fellow comrades it is, the system works because the rape kit was taken, so what if it wasn't convenient for the victim, so what if it will discourage other women from reporting, it isn't about that it's about "ultimately the service was provided and thats all it has to do."
Sheesh some folks standards are too low.
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