Dear Editor,
Is there anyone else as fed up as I am with the growing rat problem in Richmond?
There has always been a rat problem here but recently it has increased dramatically!
I am a keen gardener as a growing number of people are in Richmond. We are interested in helping the environment and growing healthy food. It is disheartening to see all your work on a garden eaten up by rats.
It is doubly frustrating when you ask for help from the city to be told as a gardener you contribute to the problem.
I recently read that the city of Brussels in Belgium decided to fight their rat problem by using a natural enemy of rats — the ferret.
They even have a ferret master who runs the program! Surely something like this would be preferable to poisons and traps which don’t work anyway? Here is hoping.
Angela Collins
RICHMOND
