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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by joecool1029 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:34AM (#18066621)
>"Eradication" is a bit of a misnomer because it is not possible to actually eliminate rats from a city.

It’s been done before: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rat-contro...

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Re:Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelon... by lostlogin on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:43AM (#18066689)
And it’s not a long way off being tried in New Zealand, which has (distant) goals of being predator free. Presumably this excludes humans.
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