Vacationers traveling to the picturesque Lake Tahoe area to enjoy a last few moments of alpine warmth before the region’s famous ski season kicks in have found their vacation rentals infested with rodents.
What’s happening?
According to SF Gate, mice and rats have been running amok, taking over vacant homes and spreading across neighborhoods. The problem has become so bad that the wait for pest control has grown to several months and hardware stores have seemed to run out of mouse traps as soon as new shipments arrive.
“We’re upping our orders on mouse traps, really anything to do with mice or rats,” said Maurice Jacques, an assistant manager at North Shore Ace Hardware in Kings Beach. “We get trucks two times a week. By Saturday, we’re all out. Some people come in and buy 15 traps at a time.”
Though rodent populations have not been tracked in California, making data-driven comparisons difficult, locals have described the explosion in the rodent population as one of the worst they have ever seen…