RSS FeedRat Rocks! (Not The Band)*
Walking around PQ recently we’ve noticed that many of the buildings in our area are using artificial rocks for rat control. We’ve always kept a watchful eye on the standard big rubber box used for rat control that you see more often around the city (bottom photo), but these artificial rocks we’d never noticed before (which means they’ve probably been in use for years).
The rock in the photos above is on the D ST side of 801 Penn Ave. There are also several around the GAO (including one just outside the daycare playground on that property). While they do blend in a bit more (especially in garden areas) do we want rat poison to look like a big plastic rock?
* The band Ratt also rocks.
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Yeah, those “rocks” make a little more sense in a suburban or garden environment. Who uses real rocks or boulders outside of downtown ersidential or commercial buildings, except for maybe the security barriers around the American Indian Museum. How about concealing the rat poison in the bases of those “smoker’s poles” that are springing up all over? Hee hee.
I haven’t seen as many rats around this fall/early winter as I saw last year. Is this just my own deluded sense of things? Do folks think the rat problem in PQ has changed any?
These have been around 801, 701, 8th and D for about a year. I have actually seen rats use these as nice comfy homes. Don’t think there are doing much to solve the rat problem
those rocks sure are ‘Round and Round’
See Nathaniel, you’re joking, but I almost picked one of these things up thinking it was a cover to water valves or something like that.
Surely you wouldn’t make rat poison look like a toy rock, right?
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I noticed one of these just this morning! Near Teaism, next to a group of planters on 8th street. Was trying to think of what it was…