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

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

The trash trucks have a device on the truck that will cans if they have a bar, which Toter brands do. Though the recycling trucks have one that will grab it from the sidewalk if they line it up perfectly.

It would be nice if they can find a way to accept people can's if the cans comply. I'm one of the people that has Toter brand cans just like city issued recycling versions. Problem is most people who are not complying will not admit they are not due to pride or other reasons and won't respond well to ticketing, so city used cans might be the only way to go from a PR perspective. If that is the case I'll accept it in order to have my neighbors get in compliance.