Dear Editor:
In your May 16 issue there is an article about the city wanting to exterminate rats. Poisoning rats is not only unspeakably cruel but it doesn’t have the desired effect. The rats who survive the poison become “super” rats who create generations of other “super” rats who are fertile and resistant to poison.
In all the years I’ve lived in Pattaya I have never heard anyone complain about the rats on Beach Road. Those tiny rats never bothered anyone. And if humans weren’t such slobs who leave their discarded food behind there wouldn’t be so many rats in the first place.
Eric Bahrt
