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next up the street rats

• ars 3y ago
  I know yours is a joke comment, but without the dogs eating the food (the garbage), some other animal is going to eat it instead. I predict an explosion of rats in another decade.
  • throw932490 3y ago
    Not really. Dogs often topple over garbage bin, and spill content on streets. Some countries use garbage bags, dogs break those. Without dogs, there is a good chance garbage just stays in bins, and gets actually collected!
    • ars 3y ago
      Rats are quite good at climbing and chewing - they are very able to get into garbage cans, unless they are metal and latched.
• psunavy03 3y ago
  My brain spent about 2.5 seconds wondering how the hell you spay or neuter a rat before giving up.
  • clort 3y ago
    I'm sure I read a [news] story about this many years ago and have wondered what became of it, perhaps these guys? https://senestech.com/contrapest/ https://senestech.com/contrapest/
  • pgeorgi 3y ago
    It can be done to drosophila, as alluded to in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197105/
  • strken 3y ago
    It's expensive and risky, and it can be hard to find a specialist vet. I kept pet rats once, and it was easier to just separate the males and females from each other.
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