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| Author | Topic: Link to Encams video featuring rats |
| Doretta |
posted 8/28/05 10:11 AM
If anyone doubts that rat populations need to be severely checked - we will never eradicate them entirely - have a look at this: http://www.hungryrats.com/ |
| me |
posted 10/4/05 1:32 PM
This video was produced to be used as a "shock tactics" advert to be shown in cinemas alongside Men in Black 2 during an anti-food litter campaign that Encams was running. Drawing attention to a film of this nature cannot be cited to provide reasoned support to this cause. |
| Doretta |
posted 10/4/05 6:41 PM
This link was posted for public information only. I realise that it was produced as part of an anti-litter campaign by Encams. It is not being used to support our Campaign but rather to highlight the fact that waste food attracts rats and that any rat sightings should be reported promptly. Hopefully some local authorities still provide a free service (ours doesn't). Supporters of this Campaign insist that since fortnightly rubbish collections have been introduced in their areas sightings of rats has increased substantially. Overflowing bins and bags of side waste left uncollected are an open invitation to rodents that "dinner is served". |
| me |
posted 10/5/05 8:21 AM
Not a very balanced way of doing either though it seems to me |
| alf |
posted 5/24/06 8:42 PM
I was talking to a council waste manager who works along with environmental health and pest control workers and his take was that when all complaints had been answered and tenants wanted a final fling they produce the rat problem. He said out of twenty calls in the past month they had only found three properties with a rat problem, one lived adjacent to a river and had over thirty bags of rubbish,along with a fridge and three piece suite lying in the garden - the rats were in the couch!, next was house with quantities of food waste spilling from the bin (unbagged) and the other had no apparent reason but had an infestation in the attic space accessed through the cavity wall from a hole beneath their back steps. Rats are natural scavengers and roam widely to feed and will return to regular feeding areas, they were there prior to recycling and will still be there in the distant future as long as folk despoil the environment. |
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