What will be the effect of AB-1788 if it becomes law in California??

Assembly Bill 1788 is  a bill that would eliminate the use of anticoagulants for control of rats and other rodents in California. It would stop it's use by even pest control professional except in very special situations. So, what kinda of impact will this have for the people of the state. 

Well a pair of breeding rats will produce a half billion new rats with three years. Since the offspring of rats have a very short time before they set breeding and producing anoth 1/2 billion you can see how quickly rats could over us all. 

So what does or elected officials suggest we do for control of rats? Well they are expecting pest control operators to figure it out. Well there are some other options but they are expensive alternatives. The costs for alternative rat control methods will only be available to people with money.

Here are a couple of new, really unproven methods:

1. A company called SENESTECH has produced a product call Contrapest. It's a birth control product for rats and has shown a potential candidate to supplement rat poisons and trapping. When this product came out we bought it plus the bait stations need to put it into use. We got one of our customers to let use try it out and this is what we found out about it's effectiveness. We checked the site weekly for 90 days, we used  monitoring bait in our bait stations. The bait in those stations did not have a poison, they just showed if rats had been eating that bait. after 30 days the monitoring stations, with the Contrapest product in play, showed feeding by rats had slowed, but didn't stop. After 90 days rats were still feeding at the monitoring stations but had slowed in comparison to when we stated. We had to supplement the Contra product with snap traps to maintain the Zero Tolerance of any rats in the warehouse. Not good.

2. A company from New Zealand called Goodnature has a cool rat trap that we have used and works like a champ.

At the beginning of it's use it had to work overtime to control the rats.( Both the example site  1 and this one at site 2 are in down town LA with a heavy population of homeless people camped out side. The rat population is off the charts there.) This trap kills the rat and they drop to the ground under the trap.( You need to watch the YouTube videos on the trap) Unless there are some type of predators around to remove  the dead rats you have to clear them from under the trap daily. Not good. The price of a trap , with a counter attached( it counts the number of time the trap goes off) is around $200.00 per trap