MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Welcome to city living where the city is so strapped for cash they can't a afford a rodent control program and enforcement people to fine the lazy business and homeowners.

I live in the country where our rats are raccoons, opossums and coyotes that cruise at night looking for open dumpsters, pet food left at rear doorsteps and in open garages.

The rats aren't eating stray dogs and cats...........yet

Wonder if our Japanese friend knows about the rats? Any cockroach hunting videos to share?

Last week, I watched "enforcement people" walk into my back yard and this week I received a letter demanding a few changes. They've been hitting the area pretty hard lately.

I've never seen rats in RO and I've lived here for 3 years. I don't doubt they're around, but they keep quiet around Main St. and Gardenia.

I wasn't trying to be a smart ass about rodent control. I call on cities and its stuff like those programs that folks think they can cut or reduce when budgets get squeezed.

Now the damned rats have a head start and it will probably cost more than it would have with tighter enforcement in the first place. Early spring, light winter probably was like going to Florida for the rats.

I dont think bad weather bothers rats at all.
A rat stowed away on the Northwestern( must have gotten on at Dutch Harbor) and Edgar found it and to this point has just decided to keep it and make a pet out of it.
Alaskan rats must be a hardy bunch..lol

Me neither... no money, no money, no money.

From roads, to schools, to rat control, to prisons... everything has been tightening belts since the early 00's in Michigan.

AND taxes have gone down...

So we get what we pay for.

Nucky

Love this thread - just got into an argument with a friend who just bought a house on Altadena, who claims there are no rats. Lived on Farnum for two years and death with them daily - especially on garbage days. My neighbor had a dog and didn't clean up its dogshit and didn't mow the lawn often- I used to see them scurry under his deck. Even my own roommate, who also had a dog, wasn't very diligent in cleaning up the dogshit (not my fucking job, our dog).....I raked the leaves on fall and found two dead rats in my yard.

Used to see them scurry in and out of ur garage. One time, after a night at the bar before garbage day, I went to the garage and pulled our garbage can out... It was an old garbage can and the second I pulled it out, a fuckng rat jumped on me. Don't believe what anyone says- rats are pretty prominent in Royal Oak... Not NYC status, but the restaurants and relative older infrastructure make that the case.

Fuck that, I moved to Troy.

I haven't seen any either in that similar area, but I don't doubt they are close.

We have a whole slew of "neighborhood" cats (owned by someone but they spend most of their time outside) that might keep the long tail rodents down.

As mentioned by someone, the squirrels are crazy though. Little fuckers actually ate a hole in a pretty sturdy garbage can lid that they couldn't get off.

Hardly.

I never knew rats were drawn to chach's.

So I've lived near downtown RO for about 7 years, first at Gainsborough and 11, and now on the other side of downtown, and I had never seen a rat. Last month the fiance and I are on the front porch of a house on Knowles that we were considering making an offer on, and I'm like 'What's that?!' I thought it was a mouse, but the fiance and realtor both said it was a rat. So I'm cracking up that the first time I ever saw a rat was while I'm considering making an offer on a house. A minute later, looking out toward the other neighbor, I saw another one. The landlord thought it was a rabbit, but this thing was scurrying .

We didn't make an offer on the house.