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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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Ya, and its name is Marlaina.
It’s not that there are no rats in Alberta; they are just actively illegal there and hence uncommon. If rats are found on your property, the government can compel you to exterminate them. Rats cannot be kept as pets.
Dead rats and even small infestations of rats have been found before so I don't understand what makes this one special.
I wonder if rat breeders exist in other provinces?
Over the past decade, rats increased by 390% in Washington DC
These things just write themselves, don’t they?
The BC hippie approach would be “Sterilise him!”
Her name is Marlaina
And it's due to climate change. Fitting.
How so? Alberta's climate is getting less harsh but it was never the reason that rats weren't present. There are much more hostile environments in Canada that have rats.
I also think that Alberta was never truly rat free. I know people who have seen them in Calgary before. There is just no way that they magically disappear at the BC border for instance. Rats crawl into people's vehicles and then those vehicles go back to Alberta.
There are supposed to be no breeding rat population. People see lots of other things and think they are rats.
The rat hotline publishes stats: https://www.alberta.ca/rat-control-program-statistics
Effectively no rats but they do pop up.
Lots of people mistake muskrats as rats, that's true
Probably why the UCP is politically done.
Could be the Premier conspiring with foreign governments that's been identified?
Rat fell out of a window American style.