I live in the country. I have huge wild native gardens. I also have dozens of snakes, foxes, and raptors that patrol those gardens.
When you mix the fecundity of urban life with these types of areas, eventually you either have massive rat problems or massive "raptors that ate rat poison" problems. We are lobbying our town to ban the use of these poisons by the town, but without them the growing number of community gardens would simply become havens for rats, especially as having free ranging cats becomes more frowned upon.
When you mix the fecundity of urban life with these types of areas, eventually you either have massive rat problems or massive "raptors that ate rat poison" problems. We are lobbying our town to ban the use of these poisons by the town, but without them the growing number of community gardens would simply become havens for rats, especially as having free ranging cats becomes more frowned upon.