WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A recent study ranked the nation’s capital as the top US city with a growing rat problem, raising new concerns about public health, sanitation, and how the city should respond.
While a newly introduced bill aims to curb the rodent population through data tracking and public transparency, one group of volunteers is already taking matters into their own hands — and into the paws of their dogs.
On Saturday evening in the Adams Morgan neighborhood, as crowds poured out of restaurants and into nearby bars, something else was stirring in the shadows.
In the alleyways just out of sight, rats scurried between dumpsters. Not far behind them were trained dogs, part of a grassroots effort to reduce the city’s rodent population — one hunt at a time.
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Kortney Gray, a Maryland barber by day and dog handler by night, likened the dogs’ efforts to “pretty much pest control.”…