"I was surprised that large Canadian cities like Toronto are experiencing a substantial rat problem. Yet seem unable to bring it under control as well. To say I dislike rats is an understatement. They closed the farm next door years ago. The next year we had more rats around than you could shake a stick at. I set out a lot of traps and was quite busy resetting them for quite some time. Than they seemed to disappear."

There is a DVD about Rats in I believe it was Baltimore Maryland. One of the Cities Exterminators narrates and speaks to People on the street and spreads poison around. His conclusion was that the Rats reproduce too fast for the poisoning to keep up with them. When one Rat is killed it still leaves what ever resources the dear Rat was living on for the next Rat that comes along.

When I was in German the Garbage/Trash Containers were small and made of heavy steel with a steel lid that reminded me of a pressure cooker. The lid is locked down until stuff goes in or out.

The smaller Cities usually had a small dump area several miles outside of town (it is a wet place except in Winter stuff eventually rots away) I have seen Rats in the Dumps but not in the Cities. Also the Streets are kept clean and free of trash.

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