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Big rats in Cobble Hill Park?
Josh Guttman | September 25, 2007
Last week, someone began posting signs around Cobble Hill Park telling of “large rats” living in the park. Over the weekend, I noticed the city had posted signs notifying the neighborhood that rat poison had been “placed in the area” as the sign (pictured here) shows. This raised a few questions for me. First, has anyone else seen these, so-called, large rats? I live nearby the park and I’ve never noticed anything aside from squirrels. The second relevant question here is about vitamin K. The signs say the antidote for rat poison is vitamin K. Is this serious? If anyone has more detail on these mysterious events, please comment and let us know.
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Yes, I’ve seen the rats! They come out after everyone has finished picnicking in the grassy area in the middle. Ick!
yes i have heard about the ratz. it is all the food being eaten in the park and left there. how can we institute a no garbage left in the park like national parks?
Vitamin K is necessary for proper clotting of the blood, and most rodenticides use some form of anticoagulants to kill rats by melting down their circulatory systems.
Rodents unfortunately love our nabe, as it’s sprinkled with bakeries and in some places positively lousy with restaurants. We also have our human rats, as episode 1 of “Ask Mario” here describes:
http://bergencarroll.com/2007/07/24/carroll-gardens-then-and-now-ask-mario/
My exterminator (the very dedicated Andy Scraggs) attends seminars of the latest anti-rat techniques and he said there are new poisions kill by blocking mice and rats’ sweat pores so they overhead in their hideouts, go out to seek water, and this way die outside rather than in walls.
Unfortunately, if it happens in middle of Cobble Hill Park, it’s quite and eyesore. There was a lot of rat poison laid out in the narrow strips between the playground and fences at Carroll Park a few years ago and it creeped me out to the point where I started pricing houses in Connecticut….
I believe Josh Guttman may be indirectly responsible for this by releasing a mouse near the park back in June…are you sure it wasn’t a baby rat?
http://bergencarroll.com/2007/06/19/why-glue-traps-are-evil-and-mice-love-mint/