Posted on 12/15/2016 12:43:56 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Paris is facing its worst rat crisis in decades. Nine parks and green spaces have been closed either partly or entirely. Some, like the Champs de Mars, home to the Eiffel Tower, are being “de-ratisized” in sections.
“I haven’t seen this sort of situation in 39 years,” said Gilles Demodice, a manager in Paris’s animal pest control department, who has spent much of his adult life working for the city.
Some rat-infested places cannot be completely closed, like the shrub-filled Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, which runs through a neighborhood with little green space and is beloved by mothers with strollers as well as joggers — but also, it seems, by packs of rats.
Rat invasion is an old problem in Paris — and a new one — and it is hard to get a grip on. In 2014, the city promised a 100 percent “de-ratization.”
In the 19th century, rats terrified and disgusted Parisians who knew that five centuries earlier, the creatures had brought the bubonic plague across the Mediterranean.
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But why are they proliferating? Could it be everybody’s favorite scapegoat — the European Union and its faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats?
Yes, it could.
New regulations from Brussels, the European Union’s headquarters, have forced countries to change how they use rat poison, said Dr. Jean-Michel Michaux, a veterinarian and head of the Urban Animals Scientific and Technical Institute in Paris.
The old way of poisoning rodents involved a sort of deadly snack service in which park employees put lethal pellets directly into the burrows where the rats lived or sprinkled a poison powder along the underground byways used by the rats.
The poison would cling to the rat’s fur “and then when the rat cleaned itself, licked itself, it absorbed the powder and was automatically poisoned,” Dr. Michaux said.
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I thought this was going to be another article about Muslim immigration.
So the Muslims have brought their allies. The bubonic plague infested rats.
Keep clam and watch Ratatouille.
Dang, everybody include the rodents are blaming the EU for everything.
Rodents. New speak for Muslim?
Interesting. Maybe the plague will make a comeback and help stop the muslim takeover of Europe....
Put each rat in a chef hat to direct their cooking by pulling on their hair!
The rat problem is far worse at the NYT.
We took care of our Rat problem on November 8th!
“The rat problem is far worse at the NYT.”........
Not to mention the rats a MUCH BIGGER.
"So the Muslims have brought their allies. The bubonic plague infested rats."
You got that right. Muzzies who no one knows have what disease sleeping in the streets, fleas running rampant, rats carrying fleas everywhere as they spread out, what could go wrong?
Well, other than Muzzies deliberately sending people who they know have a disease fleas will spread, but hey, what are the odds of peace loving Muzzies even thinking of any such thing?
I was in Paris last week and a rat ran across the path in front of us. I don’t know the name of the park but it is across the Seine from the Effiel Tower. Jardins du Trocadero.
As a gun-totting youngster, I used to go to a local dump and shoot rats. Perhaps Parisians should do the same. There is a slim difference between rodents and Muslims.
Rodents run wild in Paris with the Muslim rapists
I wonder if the sudden influx of homeless refugees sleeping/eating/crapping in the streets has somehow provided the rat population with additional sources of food and shelter?
They have to use bait stations——that are almost useless.
We have the same problem here——DCOn had a nice granular mouse poison that has been discontinued-———for the children.
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