It seems that it’s something if an epidemic. I did wonder why Kiya seemed to be bringing in so many of the buggers.
Poison-resistant ‘super rats’ are driving an increase in Britain’s rodent population and increasingly finding their way into homes and gardens, a pest control expert warned today.
Mark Moseley, who pitched his expertise to Lord Sugar on this year’s Apprentice, said the decreasing effectiveness of rodenticides and a rise in food waste caused by Britain’s rising population is driving a boom in rat numbers.
The entrepreneur said lockdown forced more rats to hunt for food in residential areas where they were being encouraged to stay by plentiful food waste and people feeding birds in their gardens. Rodents also made nests in vacant buildings.
Something else we can blame the government and their insane lockdown for.
“Something else we can blame the government and their insane lockdown for.”
The list is getting longer by the day…
Is rubbish collection still weekly ?
Also rubbish is now a big inefficient “processing” industry so it spends a lot of time in trucks / sheds / yards being pissed about with. I am sure the vermin benefit from this.
Another also, what’s the bet that the poisons have been “enviro-ed” and aren’t as good as they used to be.
Short answer – no. They collect the recycling weekly, but the proper rubbish that attracts vermin is every other week. Bring back the middle ages, I say.
My Council, Conservative in a very Conservative area, collects weekly. Their main pitch before the recent election was that they were the only party promising to keep that service. Lots of green waffle from the other parties.
Get a shotgun or a good air rifle.
It’s the Tories’ fault. It’s Brexit. It’s the Climate Emergency. It’s [insert your favourite bogeyman here].
I wonder whose fault it was 14 years ago? https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/15/super-rats-infestations
How long have you known me? How long has it taken to recognise my arid sense of humour?
Sorry. Did that come over as a dig at you? It wasn’t meant that way. It was mostly an observation that the PTB/MSM seem to have run out of new hobgoblins so they’re recycling old ones.
They’ve already tried to revive bird flu. Are we ready for acid rain, mad cow disease or the new ice age yet?
Oh, and how long have I known you? Since Bikenet. 🙂