The Mayor's War on Rats!

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

Apparently my house wasn't the only one to be hit by rats last year....and now the mayor has responded with a rather cool initiative.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2013/11/somerville_mayor_declares_war_on_rats.html

"The city is preparing a new program to offer free rodent control for homeowners and aims to launch a uniform residential trash barrel program to help keep rats from eating out of trash cans."

Also apparently looking into rat birth control...

Comments

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

unless the city tackles restaurant waste, giving homeowners new bins isn't going to help much. a couple of the restaurants in magoun square are deeply weak about securing their waste.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I live there and haven't noticed much of a problem, unless you're talking about how they have to leave stuff on the curb in the early morning. Then, yeah, that's a problem.