If prevention has insufficient effect, the municipality will proceed to kill rats. This happens with falling or clamping. “When we have to switch to control, we choose methods in which the animals suffer as little as possible.” If this does not yet work and there is a high public health risk, then chemical control can in theory be chosen. “Because the problem must be so big that public health is at stake, this rarely happens,” said the municipality.
Annoyance about rat control at Utrecht’s ‘eating square’: ‘Focus on prevention, but sometimes killing is the only solution’
