SocietyAlberta’s ‘rat patrol’ steps up as vermin make inroads into province

Alberta’s decades-long rat-free reputation was challenged after Bowden reported finding a dead rat and called in the province’s Rat Patrol. Residents were urged to report droppings or sightings. The program says most reports concern muskrats, voles or field mice, while acknowledging that rats can occasionally arrive without establishing a resident population.

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