Why Are Rat Populations In Big Cities Really Exploding? Leash Laws!
The one thing Europe got right, for thousands of years, is they let their un-neutered and un-spayed pets have the run of the streets, to keep the rodent population in check.
When our pets are respected as members of the community, they behave very well, when allowed free run in towns and cities but America’s obnoxious car culture took over the streets, with car marketeers giving not one thought to exactly what they were changing. When Ford, GM, Chrysler and Firestone, along with oil companies decided to destroy public transportation first, in Los Angeles and then the rest of America, they cause millions of dogs and cats to die in the streets and towns of America, being run over by the American car culture but even worse, dogs and cats were removed from their traditional job in cities, towns and farms, keeping the rodent population in check.
Go back and watch the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. That film is actually about the destruction of the Green Line trolly system that was heralded as the best public transportation system in the world, in it’s day. In the film Bob Hoskins can be seen hoping onto the back of a Green Line trolley preserved by the Hollywood studio system. The entire film is premised on the destruction of “Toon Town” by a super highway, a metaphor for L.A. County’s “Freeway system” and Toon Town being a metaphor for the Black community of South Central, Los Angeles that the whites, in that time, in L.A., before WWII called “Coon Town.” The name still lingered for decades while Blacks and Latinos had to, for decades, take four and five buses just to get to work an hour late but Who Framed Roger Rabbit, actually changed L.A. for the good. Not long after, L.A. County built a brand new subway system who’s construction was featured in Lethal Weapon 4.
People freakout about rats but in actuality rats are cleaner than humans and dogs and rats did not spread the plague, just because a king said so. By the plague, I mean the one that came after the religious wars between the Catholics and the Protestants. That war caused wide spread starvation and famine while the dead were just left out in the open. The claim was, that rats spread the plague when it was the religious war that destroyed food production as soldiers burned crops and stole food stores to keep fighting. In reality, opportunistic virus’ attacked the starving, whose immune systems were severely weakened by starvation. Like we just saw in Gaza. The rats, were in fact doing their job in cleaning up another human mess but the European Royals that caused the vanity war between the Catholics and the Protestants, chose to blame the fleas that came off the rats that were seen eating the dead from the war, as the cause of the plague. The Royals did this in order to get the public to kill the rats because the rats were eating into the Royal food stores and because all the dogs and cats had already been eaten, the Royals decided to mobilize their citizens still standing, to keep the rats in check.
Neutering and spaying, your dogs and cats was only applied as a behaviour modifying practice in dogs to get them to behave on the leash as the car culture took complete control of our lives and our streets. Dogs and cats are smart and know how to avoid cars but cars kept misbehaving, speeding and running over millions of pets and some deliberately, too spite a neighbour. Eugenicists celebrated as they had taught eugenics to an entire society by getting you to practice eugenics on your pets, you know, to keep them docile. Who the fuck are we to destroy so many beautiful blood lines of dogs and cats? We are monsters.
Stop driving so much and start training your dogs and cats off the leash and let them do their job. I include cats because I just love watching someone try and train a cat. I didn’t even have to ask my Jack Russel to kill the rats that were destroying my commercial Greenhouse. Larry, my jack, was always asking me to let him out so he could kill more rats. He must have killed three hundred rats in a month, wiping out the whole clutch. If we took the most SPCA abandoned dogs, the Jack Russels, which there are hundreds thousands of, at any given time and let them lose in the New York Subway, the Rats, the frustrated mayor will be voted out of office for would be gone in a week. I am sure Peta would be upset with dogs and cats doing their job and call it animal cruelty but at some point we have to decide exactly how sterile do we want our car invaded communities to be. How much are we willing to surrender to car culture in our cities. Well, we’ve completely bent the knee to car culture, to the point that, over million people in the US and Canada, live in their cars as their primary residence and we practice eugenics on our dogs and cats. Long may the rats reign supreme, you backwards citified sheep!