Silver Lake Neighborhood Council is working with the City to implement a ban on rat poisons. This would protect the animals who feed on them, including our local mountain lions. Yes, it’s important to keep them away from your business, and there are other safer methods.
In other municipal locations, businesses that block entries and keep trash clean are able to control the rodent population. (Read more about Malibu) and terriers and cats on patrol keep rats at bay (Read more about Washington DC and New York).
No matter how clean you keep your place, neighbors—homeless and not—can determine the growth or abatement of rodents in our ‘hood.
Here is more information on how to protect your property and let nature’s predators prevent population explosion: http://www.scvas.org/pdf/FrontPage(Rodenticides)_15_0102.pdf