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Ocean is not a win. It means large sea ports and hence an influx of new rats.
by morbicer 2y ago
Ocean is not a win. It means large sea ports and hence an influx of new rats.
- StayTrue 2y agoFor sure. In my experience there are two places I can go in Victoria and be guaranteed to find rats—one is the harbour.
- stackghost 2y agoThey say in Vancouver you're never more than 20 feet from a rat, anywhere you go. Probably true throughout most PNW cities.
- dehugger 2y agoI've lived in Bellingham (40 minutes south of Vancouver) for over ten years and have literally never seen a rat. Am I A) blind, B) something about the city here prevents rats from settling, or secret option C) something else entirely?
- bryanlarsen 2y agoIt's not the 18th century where rats traveled along guy ropes on to shore. Rats will travel in containers, but that's a problem for where the containers are opened as much as it is for the ports.
- dghlsakjg 2y agoRats still very much travel along mooring lines to and from ships. If you go look at any modern port you will see that the ships have large discs on any line going to shore. That disc is an anti rat measure. At least one ship I worked on got rats, and we had to deal with them before we left port. Other ships certainly wouldn’t go through the effort.