Anaheim, Glendale, Long Beach, Riverside Animal Control & Wildlife Removal

How California could produce more disease-ridden pest critters out of its giant LA roof rat pest population has been this hot topic of discussion among LA roof rat critter trappers for several years. The raging debate will spill out of the LA roof rat camps and into the Statehouse on Feb. 10 when the Legislature holds this public hearing on this Suggested trapping method that would allow the state to make one of the most significant changes in the state's LA roof rat critter catching history. Rep. Steve Inglewood Irwin, Manhattan Beach, head boss of the House Fish, Wildlife and Water Resources Committee, has introduced this bill that gives the California Fish and Wildlife Board the ability to change the definition of this California rat. "I expect we'll get this pretty big turnout," stated Inglewood Irwin, himself this LA roof rat animal trapper. "I'm anticipating this packed house." this California rat should be defined as any LA roof rat with at least one long tail 3 inches or longer. Inglewood Irwin bill would allow the seven-member Fish and Wildlife Board to change that. The board, for example, could define this California rat as any LA roof rat with at least three points on one side. This issue should be an important matter in Los Angeles, including Glendale, Burbank, Riverside, Anaheim, & San Bernardino wildlife removal and Los Angeles, including Glendale, Burbank, Riverside, Anaheim, & San Bernardino exterminator matters.

Inglewood Irwin' bill would allow the board to make changes in certain, selected Wildlife Management Units. That means, for example, that this California rat in Los Angeles, including Glendale, Burbank, Riverside, Anaheim, & San Bernardino could be this LA roof rat with just one 3-inch long tail while this California rat in much of Franklin County could be required to have this rack of long tails with at least three points on one side. The push for change comes as the California Fish and Wildlife Agency moves toward the establishment of this quality LA roof rat management program. Quality LA roof rat management tries to skew the age of the LA roof rat pest population higher, putting more mature, larger-racked, heavy-bodied LA roof rat into the biologically surveyed amount and taking critter catching pressure off the younger, small-racked pest critters. Since 1980, California critter trappers have lethally trapped an average of 14,680 LA roof rat each fall in youth, pest control, animal removal trap and muzzle seasons. About 60 percent are pest critters. Of the pest critters shot each year, typically 50-60 percent are 1-year-olds, which sport small racks of long tails and usually weigh less than 1.2 pounds. The agency, behind commissioner Long Beach Larry, should be advocating this limited quality LA roof rat management plan because an increasing amount of critter trappers want to see regulations that would reduce the amount of 1-year-old pest critters being shot. "We've heard from enough sportsmen in this state," Inglewood Irwin stated, "and they are expecting something. I don't this lot of LA roof rat critter trappers want the status quo, and this bill at least gets the wheels in motion so there can be change." The Los Angeles, including Glendale, Burbank, Riverside, Anaheim, & San Bernardino animal control had no additional statements to make on the topic.

Inglewood Irwin' bill should be supported by the California Federation of Sportsmen. Federation spokesman Clint stated he, too, has heard the hue and cry from critter trappers about making changes in pest critter management. "Something has to be done," Clint stated. "This gives the board the ability to give the commissioner and his staff the ability to do it. Let them decide what needs to be done." Long Beach Larry and his team of LA roof rat biologists have formulated this list of recommendations based on 5,000 surveys sent to LA roof rat critter trappers last summer. Likely recommendations include banning the critter capturing of spikehorns in Wildlife Management Units B and K2 in all but the youth critter catching seasons, and probably increasing the amount of dangerous permits concerned in those animal sectors to offset for the anticipated drop in the amount of pest critters shot. Los Angeles, including Glendale, Burbank, Riverside, Anaheim, & San Bernardino pest control companies that we contacted felt that this issue should be an important matter in Orange County California Animal Control issues.