How are we the only place in the entire civilized world to make a rat free territory?
Like they don't even leyt wolves or bears in europe but somehow rats are ok?
>>70064599
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex3441
>Alberta is the only province in Canada—as well as one of the few places in the world—that is free of Norwegian rats.[29] Since the early 1950s, the Government of Alberta has operated a rat-control program, which has been so successful that only isolated instances of wild rat sightings are reported, usually of rats arriving in the province aboard trucks or by rail. In 2006, Alberta Agriculture reported zero findings of wild rats; the only rat interceptions have been domesticated rats that have been seized from their owners. It is illegal for individual Albertans to own or keep Norwegian rats of any description; the animals can only be kept in the province by zoos, universities and colleges, and recognized research institutions. In 2009, several rats were found and captured, in small pockets in southern Alberta,[30] putting Alberta's rat-free status in jeopardy. A colony of rats were subsequently found in a landfill near Medicine Hat in 2012, and again in 2014
You forgot Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
>only rat free territory in the habital area in the world
>El Rato is from there
meme magic
>>70064844
All rats are illegal in Alberta not just norwegian rats
but why not make rats illegal everywhere?
Fuck rats. all they do is eat grain and spread disease.
Why are rats legal in europe? Didn't europeans get plague because of rats.
>the state did this
Suck it lolbergs
>>70065078
>Alberta, Canada, is the largest rat-free populated area in the world. Rat invasions of Alberta were stopped and rats were eliminated by very aggressive government rat control measures, starting during the 1950s.[55][56][57]
>The only species of Rattus that is capable of surviving the climate of Alberta is the brown rat, which can only survive in the prairie region of the province, and even then must overwinter in buildings. Although it is a major agricultural area, Alberta is far from any seaport and only a portion of its eastern boundary with Saskatchewan provides a favorable entry route for rats. Brown rats cannot survive in the wild boreal forest to the north, the Rocky Mountains to the west, nor can they safely cross the semiarid High Plains of Montana to the south. The first brown rat did not reach Alberta until 1950, and in 1951, the province launched a rat-control program that included shooting, poisoning, and gassing rats, and bulldozing, burning down, and blowing up rat-infested buildings. The effort was backed by legislation that required every person and every municipality to destroy and prevent the establishment of designated pests. If they failed, the provincial government could carry out the necessary measures and charge the costs to the landowner or municipality.[58]
Apparently they didn't account for El Rato
>>70065795
I think he's out for vengeance. the rats of alberta will smite those who expelled them.
I saw a dead rat on Deerfoot in Calgary last Sunday. Probably fell off a truck from bc.
We do have mice here though
