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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts) Mon Dec 19, 2022, 05:21 AM Dec 2022

How COVID caused a plague of rats in France - Focus on Europe - DW News

Strasbourg, in the French region of Alsace, is trying out new methods to combat rats, after the rodents proliferated during the pandemic.

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How COVID caused a plague of rats in France - Focus on Europe - DW News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2022 OP

I can see NJCher Dec 2022 #1

Chicago is actually the rat capital of our nation :( mucifer Dec 2022 #2

Clean NJCher Dec 2022 #4

We have allys the rats and the garbage are more hidden there mucifer Dec 2022 #5

Kick burrowowl Dec 2022 #3

NJCher

(43,522 posts)

1. I can see

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 06:59 AM

Dec 2022

Why this is upsetting to people. The images, especially the car one, are very graphic.

The drought in the Northeast brought them out and nyc has a major program going to compost, keeping kitchen scraps out of the trash.

mucifer

(25,729 posts)

2. Chicago is actually the rat capital of our nation :(

Reply to NJCher (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 07:59 AM

Dec 2022

NJCher

(43,522 posts)

4. Clean

Reply to mucifer (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:07 AM

Dec 2022

And we Northeasterners think of Chicago as so clean!

I did not know that.

mucifer

(25,729 posts)

5. We have allys the rats and the garbage are more hidden there

Reply to NJCher (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 04:22 PM

Dec 2022

burrowowl

(18,494 posts)

3. Kick

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:12 AM

Dec 2022

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