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L.A. is ranked the 3rd rattiest city in the country

Wednesday, 18 October 2017, 12:30 BFH Uncategorized 29

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Los Angeles is the third rattiest city in the U.S., according to Orkin.

The pest control company released this year’s list of cities with Chicago taking the top spot for the third year in a row.

The rankings are based on the number of treatments performed by Orkin from Sept. 15, 2016 through Sept. 15, 2017 and includes both residential and commercial treatments.

Here are the top 10 rattiest cities

29 Comments on L.A. is ranked the 3rd rattiest city in the country

  8. Something in common with these cities.
    I can’t quite put my finger on it.
    Hmmm. Let me think about it for a while and get back.

    1. Chicago
    2. New York
    3. Los Angeles
    4. San Francisco – Oakland
    5. Washington, DC
    6. Philadelphia
    7. Detroit
    8. Baltimore
    9. Seattle – Tacoma

  9. Composting. I will never keep a bin of food waste on my kitchen counter or under my sink. That’s what garbage disposals are for. We have neighbors with multi-million dollar properties who get regular visits from the rat patrol because they think they are helping the earth in some way. People are too dumb to consider the disease they invite into their own homes! These are people with young children and pets!

    Reusable shopping bags. Rarely use them. I’ll pay 5 cents for a clean paper bag before exposing myself to the petri dish of a reusable bag. Have you seen some of them?!

    Dog feces: Next time you pat yourself on the back for picking up your dog’s poop, you better look up all the nasty things you’re leaving behind. Train your dog to poop and pee in one place in your OWN yard.

  13. Yes, what most big cities have in common is they have instituted food waste composting. People keep bins full of yummy rat food sitting on their counters, under their sinks, in their garages, on their porches and, once every week or so, on the curb. “Mmmmm, mmmmm, good”, sez the big, stinking, disease-ridden rats.

  14. “Composting”

    Well in my neck of the woods a compost pile attracts mice, mice attract snakes. Most snakes around here of rattles on their tails. Our flock of Bay Area transplants catch on slow.

  20. Chicago racks up another first.
    More rats, high property taxes, high sales tax, most corrupt, most debt, most democrat, most crime, most murders…. etc.

    Hey, Sinatra….Chicago is no longer your kind of town.
    And the legislators wonder why Illinoisans are leaving in droves.

  25. We call it job security.

    – the bugman

    It’s do-able. You just need the commitment. The main problem I witness is there are two kinds of people that make it worse than it has to be:

    A. People that don’t even try because they think it’s impossible or they just don’t have time to think about it.

    B. People that don’t want to kill them at all and, in fact, help them multiply.

    They breed faster than rabbits. With some edumucashun about their needs and habits coupled with a baiting/hunting plan and exclusion efforts – you will win.

    The only reason I have rat-only customers is because the neighborhood around them doesn’t make a concerted effort. All it takes is one laggard to give them a haven to breed from.

    Give me permission to work a whole neighborhood and I can rid them of rats. They will still need to be en-guard for new visitors from surrounding neighborhoods – people that aren’t trying at all.

    I offer free seminars for HOAs and other neighborhood associations. They just have to really work it. That’s where it always falls short.

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