Most farms have cats to try and keep the rodent population down, the ones that don't, use poison. Periodic mouse and rat population booms invade at least the outer areas of most towns from time to time. Protecting of grain stores is mainly done by sheet metal these days, its the other damage they do we need to protect against - some examples I've seen recently include stocks of dry dogfood in a rural store with a hole in every bag, vehicle wiring chewed up, house wiring chewed up (in some cases starting fires), clothing in drawers destroyed by mice etc. Just because you live in a highly urbanised area doesn't mean everyone does. Your argument falls very close to the one that runs "since we have bitumen roads nobody should own four wheel drives".Quote:
Originally Posted by cartm58
Note that I have no argument with your second paragraph and particularly agree about desexing animals.
John
