Sacramento trying to kill packs of enormous rats that infested city lot near downtown

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234931682.html
Sacramento trying to kill packs of enormous rats that infested city lot near downtown
BY THERESA CLIFT
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 03:30 PM, UPDATED SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 12:00 AM

The city of Sacramento has started exterminating more than 100 rats that have infested a vacant lot in Sacramento’s River District where the city plans to build a new fire station.

Many homeless encampments typically line the lot, located on Ahern Street between North A and North B streets, causing city officials to worry the rats could also cause a health crisis.

City Councilman Jeff Harris, who represents the River District, alerted city officials to the problem in late August, after hearing about it from a man who lives at Quinn Cottages across the street, he said.

“I was pretty shocked when I went out there,” Harris said. “It’s well known that rats can bear a lot of diseases, so they are a potential health hazard. The fact that there are people living on the street means there are food items on the street and those are definitely attractive to rats.”

The article kind of treads lightly around and through the root cause, but see if you can spot and recognize it in this Satellite View from Google Maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5892296,-121.4827969,436m/data=!3m1!1e3

[corbe]

             I hope they get her, this time.

[skeeter]

             I hope they get her, this time.

Looks like they did - there's one sitting on her head.

[roamer_1]

Mink to root em out and terriers to catch em coming.

Fun as heck hunting rats.

Best hunting in the spring, while they are still burrowed up in the manure piles for warmth.
If you catch it right you'll get em all in about 4 hours...
If you wait too long and it gets warm enough, they all move into the barns and it's a whole lot tougher to get em out.

[skeeter]

Mink to root em out and terriers to catch em coming.

Fun as heck hunting rats.

Best hunting in the spring, while they are still burrowed up in the manure piles for warmth.
If you catch it right you'll get em all in about 4 hours...
If you wait too long and it gets warm enough, they all move into the barns and it's a whole lot tougher to get em out.

Sacramento's giant rats are still burrowed in manure - their own - because they like the smell so nows the time.

Don't want them making a break for the capitol building, we'll never get em out.

[roamer_1]

Sacramento's giant rats are still burrowed in manure - their own - because they like the smell so nows the time.

Don't want them making a break for the capitol building, we'll never get em out.

 
Yeah.. probably a lost cause. 

[PeteS in CA]

Mad Maxine's home and district (in which she lives near but not in) are some 400 miles from Sacramento.

[corbe]

   I looked at her District Map and knew that @PeteS in CA
   I wasn't trying to $hit on your Thread.*

   *Guilty of that in the past

[PeteS in CA]

   I looked at her District Map and knew that @PeteS in CA
   I wasn't trying to $hit on your Thread.*

   *Guilty of that in the past

Got it.

Since no one seems inclined to go there, I wish something could be done about the rat infestation near 10th & L and 10th & N.