When restaurants closed down and the rats realized their main source was going away, the little guys got resourceful.
News desk at kezi dot com.
Rats in eugene are not a new problem -- but they are a growing one and coronavirus is partially to blame today kezi 9 news reporter emma jerome spoke with local pest control specialists and neighbors about what they're noticing around their homes lee "it has just been getting bigger and bigger and bigger" lee womack owns infinity pest solutions in springfield and he says he'll catch up to a dozen rats a day.
He says coronavirus is partially to blame.
"when you have all these restaurants that normally have full dumpsters of leftover food scraps - it is a buffet for rodents"" and so when they realized their main source was going away -- the little guys got resourceful "well then you have people with chicken coops and compost piles well they start coming out to take advantage of those and it just grows from there because well they've found a food source" check out this video sent in by a viewer from the --santa clara neighborhood -- he says he has caught 42 rats since mid juky emma jerome: " rats have become such a problem after covid touched down here in america that the cdc is even giving guidance on how to deal with them for example they advise you take preventative measures like sealing points of entry into your home, taking pet and bird food out of your yard... and if you do find... evidence a rat has been around... clean it up ... it'll stop others from popping in" chris "it's been no rats at all and now we're just inundated with rats -- i killed 2 just last night.
Chris peterman owns a private carpet cleaning company and lives in marcola -- he says the problem has become volatile.
"i've bought like 10 rat traps because of it" chris says it's not something he's bothered reaching out to the town of marcola about lee says his customers tell him that when they've tried to reach out to springfield and eugene -- they get no help in eugene emma jerom
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