When the lights go out,
the rats come out on Pattaya Beach.
Jetsada Homklin
The onset of rainy season has the rats running again on Beach Road, made
fat on garbage left behind by tourists.
Vermin clambered around the sand from Soi 7 to Walking Street June 7,
snapping up scraps tossed by tourists and left behind by local pubs and
restaurants.
The Public Health and Environment Department previously said it has been
exterminating rats for more than seven years. But fueled by a birthrate
that can see every female rat producing up to 85 offspring a year, the
problem has started to worsen.
Rats can be seen frequently nesting in or under coconut trees and in
flower beds.
There are so many, workers are not able to eradicate them totally.
However, traps and extermination efforts three times per month try to
cull their numbers.
