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ST forum 30 April 2008: Rat Problem - Town Council shld be more responsible
Posted by catwelfaresg on April 30, 2008
Sarah:
There’s a letter to the ST forum today. Basically, the writer is complaining about a rat in her house, and the reactions of the town council. Apparently, they informed her at first that the rat was in her house, and therefore her concern, not theirs. The writer, of course, commented that the rat came from outside her house, which made it town council’s concern. Thankfully, the town council realised that as well, and send pest busters down to deal with it.
What I liked was that a forum commenter pointed out that the situation could be avoided if there were a couple more community cats hanging around the area! Cats don’t actually have to catch rats to keep them away. Rats and lizards can sense when a cat is around, and generally move elsewhere. So when you kill the stray cats in one neighbourhood, you’re actually opening the door to another lot of pests. 
May 3, 2008 at 4:19 am
The “pests” are the human who selfishly refuse to accept personal responsibility in the care of our environment. Despite being one of the highest users of plastic bags and one often witnesses customers shamelessly asking for more plastic bags at supermarket counters and stealing the plastic bags from the plastic rolls in the grocery section, the amount of “free range” garbage in the bins of HDB chutes is just amazing, putting our foreign cleaners at health risk, and contributing the cockroaches and rats!
Just look at our dirty Singapore is! and yet we always blame the cats, the birds, the rats, etc!
And yet TC will respond to complaints of cat feed leftovers when the bigger problem of human littering is not addressed!