New Government Regulation Requires Rats Not Be Killed, Captured In Families And Relocated…
Occupy DC’s roommates overjoyed.
(CNSNews.com) — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he is worried that a new District of Columbia law that governs how pest control operators must handle rats may result in entire rodent “families” being relocated across the Potomac River into Virginia by D.C. pest control personnel.
Lately, there have been reports of growing rat infestations around the Occupy DC protests at Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square.
Cuccinelli said D.C.’s new rat law — the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010 (Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.pdf) — is “crazier than fiction” because it requires that rats and other vermin not be killed but captured, preferably in families; no glue or snap traps can be utilized; the rodents must be relocated from where they are captured; and some of these animals may need to be transferred to a “wildlife rehabilitator” as part of their relocation process.
The law does not allow pest control professionals “to kill the dang rats,” Cuccinelli told CNSNews.com. “They have to capture them–then capture them in families. [Not sure] how you’re going to figure that out with rats. And then you have to relocate them. That brings us to Virginia. Now, if you don’t relocate them about 25 miles away, according to experts, rodents will find their way back. Well, an easy way to solve that problem is to cross a river, and what’s on the other side of the river? Virginia.”
Posted by ZIP on Saturday, January 14, 2012, at 3:30 pm | 
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These rats are not indigenous.
They are European invaders.
This will make those idiots at PETA happy over this nonsense
“We’re not done yet, boys, we still have to locate little Clem!”
Global Invasive Species Database – Rattus norvegicus (Norway Rat)
http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=159&fr=1&sts=
Taxonomic name: Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769)
Synonyms: Epimys norvegicus Miller, 1912, Mus decumanus Pallas, 1778, Mus hibernicus Thompson, 1837, Mus norvegicus Berkenhout, 1769
Common names: brown rat (English), common rat (English), isorotta (Finnish), Norway rat (English), pouhawaiki (Maori), rat surmolot (French), Rata de noruega (Dominican Republic), rata noruega (Spanish), ratto di fogna (Italian), ratto grigio (Italian), rotta (Finnish), sewer rat (English), surmolotto (Italian), tikus riul (Indonesia), topo delle fogne (Italian), Wanderratte (German), water rat (English)
Organism type: mammal
The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) is globally widespread and costs primary industry hundreds of millions of dollars per year. It has caused or contributed to the extinction or range reduction of native mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates through predation and competition. It restricts the regeneration of many plant species by eating seeds and seedlings, eats food crops and spoils human food stores by urinating and defecating in them. Additional economic damage is caused by chewing through power cables and spreading diseases.
Description
The Norway rat has brown fur on the back with pale grey fur on its belly. The adults normally weigh 150 – 300g, and may reach up to 500g, and are up to 390mm long. They have relatively small ears – which usually do not cover the eyes when pulled forward. The tail is shorter than the head-body length – the opposite is true for the ship rat R. rattus (Wittenberg, R. (ed.) 2005). Females have 12 nipples.
Similar Species
Rattus exulans, Rattus rattus
I know the librals identify closely with vermin but wow. No way would this go over well in my ‘hood. We have one neighbor up the road who nails coyote pets to his garage. He would not take kindly to some nanny busybody lecturing him on being kinder to varmints.
Are cockroaches included in the mandatory family relocation law for vermin?
There has to be a new word for the liberal morons, because “moron” is way way too intelligent for people that come up with this assinine lunacy.
The most common rodent-borne diseases you should be concerned about are: Hantavirus, Salmonella, Lyme Disease, Rat-Bite Fever, Jaundice, Plague, Tularemia, Ricketts, and Typhus fever. The effect that these diseases can have on your health can range from a minor infection to death.
So now we know why mandating he11care was so urgent.
I wonder what an over population of rodents can do??? hmmmm
LOL!
liberals view all rats as potential voters; 4 legged rats, demonicrats, democrats , commie rat bastards, muzzierats, well you get the idea.
Fine postmark the little bastards to King Rat in the White House.
Relocate the adorable rat families to Cuccinelli’s home and law school.
So we can relocate Congress across the water to GTMO?
Silly question I know, guess this nixes the idea of feeding ows hungry any of the surplus?
Rat stew, rat brisket, rat soufle’, rat and chips, rat gumbo, rat tapas, rat and noodles, rat pie, deep fried rat, the possibilities are endless.
Lord deliver us from these ignorant, earth worshiping, idiots that are passing themselves off as our government, and scientists.
There is no one in their right mind that would make a law like this. For years we have known that rats carry numerous diseases. Now they aare treating rats like an endangered species.
This kind of slop has got to be stopped!!
Wonder if there are gay rats, don’t be a hater now, there have been experiments to prove animal species are naturally queer. So if there are gay rodents do you suppose this law would permit them to adopt displaced baby rats? I mean it could save a lot of effort trying to locate all those scooped up parent rodents.Maybe jhp or rupaul could enlighten us. They both seem to know everything about the topic.
But yet in Texas and Missouri you can wipe out whole populations and entire families of Feral Hogs, because of the damage they do to land and crops. Not to mention that a large hog can maim of even kill a person and then eat you.
Is INS going to get involved in this process and start DNA testing each rat to repatriate them with their families. Yea a new bureaucracy is born.
Now you are going to relocate an entire rat population to a safe area free of predators, so their numbers can increase and create problems for an area that was previously free of rats.
You are introducing an invasive species. What about all the bird nesting sites and the little bird eggs?
Just read it. Not to worry, it only applies to rodents. But one has to wonder where homes can be found for so many Congressional staffs.
Madness
So it is quite okay to kill unborn BABIES but dammit don’t dare ruffle one hair on a Rat’s ass!
This effing gubmint of ours has gone plain effing brain dead mad!
@vagabond: Your comments got me into the “giggles” mode. Drats.
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is “crazier than fiction” because it requires that rats and other vermin not be killed but captured, preferably
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This is a NIGHTMARE! So next best thing it will be farmers being handed a 12 page dictum on rat removal from grain bins, corn bins, calf pens. They’ll have to register them on some damn page about how many, where located, etc.
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QUESTION: IS this INDIA we are living in?
The Wildlife Protection act states that
“Wildlife” shall include any free-roaming wild animal, but shall not include:
(A) Domestic animals;
(B) Commensal rodents;
(C) Invertebrates; and
(D) Fish.
Commensal rodents include the Norway rat and the house mouse according to the definition I read online. This means that the law doesn’t apply to rats or mice.
demo-rats clain there is a sound reason behind this law
the democ__rats want to save there party
Bubonic Plague here we come!
Question: Will Jack Russell Terriers now be banned from Washington DC? Those dogs are lean, mean rat killing machines!
…..good grief, furthermore, look @ some countries that they are dealing w/overpopulation of kangaroos. They are not a rodent, but when overcrowding gets going ya have to move ‘em out or something. What about the common whitetail deer? Too many of them, and they need to go. Etc.
Anyhow. Y’all know what I’m saying.
@sb: Lol.
Let them loose a whole army of those terriers!
btw: has any of them given a moments thought of how fast these critters replicate? Along with the exponential rapidity of possible disease spreading simply because of their replication abilities?
Phenomenal. Dunces.
@Hickster:
Insane…. incredible… you gotta be kidding!
A plague on their house!… bubonic, hopefully.
@vagabond:
a small dab of info. Pretty sure most of us can tell a rat story. One of my “rat stories” comes from working in a corn silage silo. Was forking silage to the wheelbarrow below that’s taken to the cows. Was minding my own business when a lousy rat decided to get too close to my work area. It would jump up the silo wall and screech. It met it’s ending with a well placed wack from the pitch fork.
p.s. just for clarification in case you wondered, by any chance, if it was “double-speak” about knowing a little bit of archery. No double-speak there. Was during some outdoor classes in school. Each year there was a portion devoted to that sport. Anyhow, I wasn’t too shabby on it. I just wanted to clarify that.
Wow! I thought we had lunatic’s running the asylum here! With people like these guy’s running the show, you guy’s are f_cked! America the great? Not anymore. Time for common sense and a total top down house cleaning to happen. Please, for christ’s sake, get a Republican canidate in place who is willing to stand up to these idiots ! Did you ever think you’d here that from a Canadian? My how times have changed.
Deadeye Hickster!
Believe it on not, one year I had rats move into the insulation in my oven! What a smell! I hauled that oven out in the front yard and while I was getting ready to go purchase a new oven, my very liberal neighbor came strolling by. I told him he could have the oven for free, but it had to be gone by the time I got back from Sears. Being a liberal (and therefore an idiot!), he took that entire rat condo down to his place and the vermin moved in with him and his family!
….to anyone on here. as a kid reciting the “Pledge of Allegience”, there was never a day I could have imagined the horrible crap that is going on nowdays.
Did any of us?
Was this law created as one of Marion Barry’s last cocaine fueled rampages… or was it one of many to be found in Eleanor Holmes’ vast array of stupidities?
These people are idiots. I’m an animal lover, but even I would take steps to ‘eliminate’ rats.
Isn’t it amazing how the Left can turn even the word ‘compassion’ into something destructive.
I wonder if seeing this would change their minds:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7184021.stm
And if not, maybe this would do it:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/rat-attack.html
This beats Bloomy and his trans fat crusade by a mile. It’ll be years before someone else comes up with the law this utterly stupid – or maybe not.
@sb:
Democ–Rat Property Laws
1. If I like it, it’s mine.
2. If I’ve peed on it, it’s mine.
3. If I can take it from you, it’s mine.
4. If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine.
5. If you’ve got something larger, it’s mine.
6. If I’m chewing something up, all the pieces are mine.
7. If it’s in my reach, it’s mine.
8. If I saw it first, it’s mine.
9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.
10. If it’s broken or it tastes bad, it’s yours.
President Rat; who would have guessed??
Democ–Rat Rules
1. A little pee won’t hurt me
2. It is OK to steal food off someone else’s plate
3. If I’m big and fat I can get away with just about anything
4. If I can fit it in my mouth, it’s food
5. Lazing around in hammocks all day and partying all night is the only way to live
6. The world is my toilet
7. All facial orifices require regular inspection
8. If I have a dispute with my neighbour it is socially appropriate for me to beat the crap out of him
9. Sex, food and sleep are my only priorities in life
See, they are worried people will mistave the government rats with the actual animal rats … first to go the democRATS.
Then the one-horned RINOrats.
Now I’ve heard everything.
In Canada, there is a population of endangered red wolves living in Algonquin Park, where they are protected. Being migratory animals, they sometimes wander beyond the confines of the park, which covers 2,946 square miles.
If these noble and beautiful wild creatures are discovered out of the park, they are considered fair game. There is no licence required to kill them, and no limit on the number which can be killed. It’s disgusting and inhumane.
And these people are protecting pestilence carrying vermin? The mind reels.
Well, well, well. The Progressives are getting so much rope that they have gone into complete power-mad idiot mode, and soon will be replaced with more intelligent Americans.
Capture a family of rats? Are they out of their fucking minds? Rats carry parasites which harbor deadly diseases like bubonic plague and other pleasant stuff.
OMFG. DC has completely gone nuts.
Starting November 2012 and into 2013 the relocations for the D.C. rats begins. However, “most” of these type of rats have two liberal legs attached to the main frame of complete stupidity.
@TexasPharmacist: Maybe you have a stash of meds you can rush to them?
@friday -
Your “Democ–Rat Property Laws” apply to muslims too.
I don’t see the problem. Homeowners are exempt so just collect all pests and drop them at D.C. Council Member Mary M. Cheh’s house. She will take care of everything. That’s what she does.
I’m sure she’s in the book.
Hickster:
I don’t dispense anything that powerful. I am not even sure they need pharmaceuticals. They need surgery – the kind to remove their heads from their asses. Is there a surgeon on this board?
Much BS about nothing. The law doesn’t apply to brown rats and house mice: See section 5 of the law:
(5) “Wildlife” shall include any free-roaming wild animal, but shall not include:
(A) Domestic animals;
(B) Commensal rodents;
(C) Invertebrates; and
(D) Fish.
Brown rats and house mice are (B) Commensal rodents, those whice have evolved to survive only by sponging off of humans. Much different than a deer mouse, or woodrat, which are truely wild species.
Anyone have a guess as to when liberals propose the right for rats to vote will be?
Hey!! where’s the troll to put the spin on this one?
Oh Dear Lord, these democRATS really are insane.
They want to register them to vote too!
@veldy says:
January 14, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Hey!! where’s the troll to put the spin on this one?
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hes saving his mother and father rat,he sending them to the white house
to be with the rest of the rats so they can rat-party
From Wiki (yeah … I know, but…):
Reproduction and life cycle
The brown rat can breed throughout the year if conditions are suitable, a female producing up to five litters a year. The gestation period is only 21 days and litters can number up to fourteen, although seven is common. They reach sexual maturity in about 5 weeks. The maximum life span is up to three years, although most barely manage one. A yearly mortality rate of 95% is estimated, with predators and interspecies conflict as major causes.
[...]
Brown rats live in large hierarchical groups, either in burrows or subsurface places such as sewers and cellars. When food is in short supply, the rats lower in social order are the first to die. If a large fraction of a rat population is exterminated, the remaining rats will increase their reproductive rate, and quickly restore the old population level.
A rat’s litter can number anywhere between 7-20 unaborted late term rat fetuses…
Dang, that beats all.
Just last night I was talking w/a friend having rat problems in the Stan. I guess that will be the next war crime, killing rodents eating your care packages.
Collect them all up and dispose of them on the democrats front yards.
Call the “Turtle Man”……..
No doubt CONgress had a near collective sigh of relief when this was passed…
BTW, when did Debbie WS get a hair cut? It’s cute!
DC has been exporting rats of one sort or another to VA for decades.
Wildlife Protection Act of 2010, sponsored by DC Councilwomen Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) — for those unfamiliar with Ward 3 – it sits in the NW corner of DC that includes some of the District’s super high end leafy neighborhoods – Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Forest Hills, Foxhall, Friendship Heights –
Essentially – the way this works – mice/rats are excluded in the law but you can’t put traps down because those traps can’t differentiate from other, protected animals. Heaven forbid a juvenile skunk or opposum wanders into a rat trap.
“Lest Cuccinelli’s rat rant seem a bit out of the blue, it is a topic that representatives of pest control businesses, including those in Northern Virginia, are still fuming over to this day. Industry leaders say the Wildlife Protection Act makes it prohibitively expensive for homeowners to pay for a letter-of-the-law pest control service. Such a service, they say, would involve trapping an entire family of animals in and around a home and then driving around the District looking for an uninhabited wooded spot to let the critters out.
In practice, according to Gene Harrington of the Fairfax-based National Pest Management Association, many pest control companies will simply try to skirt the law in one way or another. Rather than trying to find a safe spot to let the animals go in D.C., for instance, a company may simply decide to break federal law and transport the animal over state lines.
“If the District isn’t even going to let you use a snap trap to control a chipmunk or a squirrel, it’s just a lot easier for Commonwealth-based businesses to bring every animal captured in the District back to the Commonwealth,” he said. “They’ll simply just put them in the back of their truck, I’m sure, and take them across the river.”
While lethal traps are technically permitted for several common rat and mouse species, Jason Reger, the Virginia representative of the National Wildlife Control Operators Association, says that other rodent species are prevalent in the District and that it’s impossible for a trap to differentiate between the various species. Reger also contends that the Wildlife Control Act’s provision that allows animals to be trapped and then euthanized would be difficult to apply in practice.
Harrington, for his part, says he hopes changes will eventually be made to what he described as a “stupid, stupid, ill-advised, ill-conceived law.”
http://www.arlnow.com/2012/01/12/cuccinelli-smells-a-rat-in-d-c/#more-29050
Democ-rats and rats….what’s the diffenence? Both are vermin.
DC has been exporting rats of one sort or another to VA for decades.
Wildlife Protection Act of 2010, sponsored by DC Councilwomen Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) — for those unfamiliar with Ward 3 – it sits in the NW corner of DC that includes some of the District’s super high end leafy neighborhoods – Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Forest Hills, Foxhall, Friendship Heights –
Essentially – the way this works – mice/rats are excluded in the law but you can’t put traps down because those traps can’t differentiate from other, protected rodent species. Heaven forbid a juvenile skunk or opposum wanders into a rat trap.
“Lest Cuccinelli’s rat rant seem a bit out of the blue, it is a topic that representatives of pest control businesses, including those in Northern Virginia, are still fuming over to this day. Industry leaders say the Wildlife Protection Act makes it prohibitively expensive for homeowners to pay for a letter-of-the-law pest control service. Such a service, they say, would involve trapping an entire family of animals in and around a home and then driving around the District looking for an uninhabited wooded spot to let the critters out.
In practice, according to Gene Harrington of the Fairfax-based National Pest Management Association, many pest control companies will simply try to skirt the law in one way or another. Rather than trying to find a safe spot to let the animals go in D.C., for instance, a company may simply decide to break federal law and transport the animal over state lines.
“If the District isn’t even going to let you use a snap trap to control a chipmunk or a squirrel, it’s just a lot easier for Commonwealth-based businesses to bring every animal captured in the District back to the Commonwealth,” he said. “They’ll simply just put them in the back of their truck, I’m sure, and take them across the river.”
While lethal traps are technically permitted for several common rat and mouse species, Jason Reger, the Virginia representative of the National Wildlife Control Operators Association, says that other rodent species are prevalent in the District and that it’s impossible for a trap to differentiate between the various species. Reger also contends that the Wildlife Control Act’s provision that allows animals to be trapped and then euthanized would be difficult to apply in practice.
Harrington, for his part, says he hopes changes will eventually be made to what he described as a “stupid, stupid, ill-advised, ill-conceived law.”
http://www.arlnow.com/2012/01/12/cuccinelli-smells-a-rat-in-d-c/#more-29050
This policy is actually destructive to the local ecosystem. The invasive species is being given preference.
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@gastorgrab: Maybe they want a ‘rat attack’ like they have to deal w/in the rice fields?
@sb: ANY wild chance that the guy that took the rat condo was the one that’s been seen on AE for hoarding rats? One of my sister’s was telling about having seen that program.
oops. meant to put the link about the rice rats
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/rat-attack.html
Maybe the DUMB@SS DC Dems think the rats are DemocRATS and if they collect them all up and ship them to Virginia, they would change Virginia to a Red State! They have spent 3 years learning from the Chicago crew about getting everyone to vote, including rats and dead people!
Sorry, I didn’t take the time to read all the preceding posts, but its a baby democ RAT!
My first thought though, was “hey! a baby picture of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”
@TexasPharmacist………..I’m not a surgeon but I did stay once at a Holiday Inn….
Are you finally convinced that liberalism is a mental disease. If you aren’t you must be a liberal.
What are doing to our country is a shame. What exactly I fighting for? Tell please. I am having a crisis of faith.
@Marinewhiskeyfoxtrot
It is a shame, and there are crimes involved, and we must band together spiritually and otherwise, to correct this terrible mistake the Obama’nation .. hang in there, we’re just beginning the next skirmish. This campaign and the election is what we have to focus on if we’re going to defeat the rats.
We need patriotic people in the military, especially right now .. imagine how much worse it could get if these evil morons could co-opt the military.
I sympathize with you, I spent 4 years in the Navy, have many Marine friends.
The latitude this socialist and his minions, the Senate Demos and, amazingly, the Main Stream Media complex have taken to lie and deceive the American people, and perpetrate a grevious attack upon our government, our allies, our states, our very sanity with all of their lies and deceptions, is staggering.
But wait! WE ARE NOT DONE!!!!!!
99% of those rats are OWS and future demacratic supporters
The Obamas are both attorneys. This is just a law supporting Professional Courtesy.
QUESTION: IS this INDIA we are living in?
@Hickster
I think it’s hell actually. or tribulation
Don’t worry too much about the plague,it’s been imported with illegals for ages.You been paying for their treatment for years,it’s the antibiotic resistant TB,Syphilis and bed bugs they have that is more dangerous and the new AIDS epidemic coming in with muslims.All ME countries are over 5% AIDS infected and Afghanistan is over 28%.
Why does this story not surprise me ? Guess i’ve become numb to libtards insanity,ignorance and destructive nature.They are determined the US will be a socialist ghetto with 3rd world standards.
I love rats. I’ve kept 13, one after another, over the years. These are gentle critters bred to be pets.
I think this is one of the dumbest, most shortsighted things I’ve ever heard. Rats are extraordinarily smart, and they obsess over food. They breed at an amazing rate. I’ve many times said to myself that I’d never want a wild one in my house after being around my pets and realizing what a “real” rat would be like. If you get one in your house, you need to kill it, not transplant it! Where do these morons who make these determinations come from?
Does this reg pertain to DemocRATS?
During WWII, the Japanese Unit 731 in China, under General Shiro Ishii, experimented with the release of diseased fleas – the kind carried by rats – to intentionally spread diseases like plague and cholera as a biological weapon. This was condemned worldwide as a crime against humanity. They also actively tested using diseased fleas in their balloon bomb program against the United States, knowing that these diseases would be spread by rats. Even today, 65 years later, the Japanese are too ashamed to officially admit it.
And now, incredibly, Washington DC is REQUIRING that rats be released in Virginia because it’s the “humane” thing to do. Without bothering to ask Virginia how they just might feel about it. They might as well require the same thing for people diagnosed with communicable diseases like plague, HIV, flu, cholera, and diphtheria.
It would make perfect sense to me to pass a law in Virginia requiring the arrest DC politicians responsible and any “animal control” employees caught crossing state lines to release rats in their state and indict them for war crimes. One can only wonder how DC politicians would react if Virginia required the capture and release of rats in DC.
The word outrage doesn’t even begin to describe this stupid policy. Not even close.
As I recall, Glen Beck mentioned this a couple years ago as being one of Cass Sunstein’s brilliant ideas. (?)
bobdog@ 9:14 am/15th
Interesting. I was unaware of the use of rats in WWII.
I have read that during an infestation of the bubonic plague one of the worst things to do is kill rats. If the rats are carrying infected fleas, the fleas abandon the dead host and find a living one.
Ken I think that I might have an answer for you. Get a hold of Gov. McDonnell and have him talk to Mayor Gray and let him know that for every rodent that comes down form D.C. that the State of Virginia will be shipping a few boxes of small arms and ammo back up North to D.C. we just to reciprocate the Love don’t you know. We were thinking
that the first shipment should be dropped off around the Trinidad area say about 2:00 a.m. what do you think Vin.
So does this mean if I capture Harry Reid, I must then round up his entire family and transfer them all to a moral rehabilitation sanctuary?
Baltimore boys, bacon and baseball bats….
“B.A.R.F., Baltimore Area Rat Fishing explores the strange world of a group of rat fishermen holding their annual rat fishing tournament hosted at the Yellow Rose bar in Baltimore. Just 45 miles away in a dirty alley in Adams Morgan, Washington D.C., Eric the host of this video attempts a little rat fishing with sometimes hilarious results. Nothing better than a Saturday night with a case of beer, your favorite girlfriend, some bacon, peanut butter and a hook.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yv9I33uob0
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/01/us/ratmen-of-baltimore-go-rat-fishing-again.html
Send all the little rodents to PETAs HQ and allow them too take care of the little buggers
Out west, we just elect our vermin and send them to D.C.
this is a hoax, right?
How long before libtards are dressing them up like babies and carrying them in little totes as status symbols? kewl.
The Pied Piper must have a plan.
Just over the border from DC, the city of Takoma Park, Maryland (renown for once having a mayor from the Communist party) also created such a law. They would capture and “relocate” the rats to some farm in Frederick County, Maryland.
When the recipients of this “goodness” became aware of the practice, they told the people of Takoma Park to deal with their own vermin and not foist it upon someone else.
I think Virginia owes DC such a letter. But that said, if they hand the packages of live mice to a firm that euthanizes each one with love and care (for a large fee, of course), then why not?
Let them relocate these vermin to someone who will deal with it for them –but they must pay first.
It’s the insanity of Albert Schweitzer revisited.
I can see the plague coming to D.C. , it seems to me like this is the logical consequences of this sort of mental illness.
I’ve never heard of anything so stupid in my entire life. Anyone here see the “Hoarders” ep a while back in which the guy lost his wife and had three rats that eventually bred themselves into 2000 of the little suckers? He would sit in the middle of the kitchen floor (what was left of it) and dump a 50 lb bag of dog food in his lap and the rats would literally flow out of the walls to feed. This took about two years to get from two to two thousand. Hello! Not a good idea!
Consider the parelles between this and the amnisty program for illeagals
1 Both programs are catch and release
2 What do the states that recive this genorous popluation think of the DC
program?
I believe it is time to reciprcate, all rats collected in the surrounding states must be relocated in DC.
Any exterminator found to be releasing rats will be jailed for 30 days, have their vehical impounded and pay a 100.00 fine for each rat released
At least the rats won’t be able to vote…. will they?
@david5300:
At least the rats won’t be able to vote…. will they?
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Time will tell. So far dead people vote for the Dems.
Update on the great rat relocation:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/capital-land/2012/01/md-delegate-moves-ban-rat-trafficking-defend-state-borders/2117506