City to go rat hunting 3 times per month

PATTAYA:--Pattaya’s Center of Disease Control and Prevention plans to hunt down rats on Pattaya Beach three times a month after last year’s flooding led to an explosion in the vermin population.

Anya Janthrakas, head of the Public Health and Environment Department office, said the city has actively been exterminating rats for more than five years, but last year’s flooding created a shortage of rat poison. Fed by food left behind by beach vendors and tourists, and fueled by a birthrate that can see every female rat producing up to 85 offspring a year, the problem has become an epidemic.

Rats can be seen frequently along Pattaya Beach, nesting in or under coconut trees and in flower beds.

Full story:http://www.pattayama...per-month-11026

-- Pattaya Mail 2012-03-16

they've always been there haven't they? normally triyng to get you to rent a jet ski so they can have your eyes out

What Pattaya really needs is rat catchers for the 2 legged variant.

10 baht a tail and I'm sure all the rats are gone within a week!

10 baht a tail and I'm sure all the rats are gone within a week!

LOL - you obviously don't read terry pratchett.

At 10 baht a tail the rat farms would extend out to chiang mai........