HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2015-07-29, Page 88 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, July 29, 2015
N THE snakes and rats
on the agenda
at council
Retirement and
Welcome Reception
The Community of Central Huron
Clinton Family Health Team
Clinton Family Physicians
Clinton Public Hospital
Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance
Clinton Public Hospital Foundation
Help us say thank you to Dr Keith Hay
And welcome to Dr Irram Sumar
At a
Meet and Greet Reception
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
5: OOpm — 7: OOpm
Central Huron Community Complex
New changes to specific
laws in Huron County
for the communities safety
Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
Rodents are generally known for
being food for reptiles, the two crea-
tures were the topics of discussions at a
council meeting in Seaforth.
Council passed a new update
involving an animal control by-law on
July 20, which was initially passed
back in 2001. The major areas that
changed extensively were that there is
now a list of prohibited animals and
potential rat farms will be regulated in
the future.
"This will give the animal control
officer a firmer authority like removing
snakes or dangerous spiders or that sort
of thing," said Brussels Ward councillor,
David Blainey,
He said this is more of a general
rule meant to prevent incidents from
happening that have in the past.
In Campbellton, N.B., two young
brothers were killed from a 15 -foot Afri-
can python, after it escaped from an
exotic pet store. The 45 -kilogram snake
fled from a glass tank and slithered
through a ventilation pipe.
In London's Animal Control By-
law, which was consolidated Nov,
11, 2014, the law states that all non
venomous snakes that are more than
24 inches are prohibited by any
person.
"Pythons and poisonous snakes in
my mind are not house hold pets," said
Blainey.
One of the two animal control
officers Robert Trick, who super-
vises the bulk of Huron County, said
the geographical coordinated of
where these exotic animals habitats
are, is what potentially poses a
threat.
"All these exotic animal come from
warmer climates countries and there-
fore they do maybe bring disease," said
Trick.
After the snake issue panned out the
second concern was raised, which was
rat farms. Trick explained that this too
could possibly be a danger to the com-
munity if the situation was not moni-
tored correctly.
If you live next door and a thousand
rats get out, you could be looking at a
problem," said Trick. "We did have
knowledge of a rat farm, so we
thought there should be some restric-
tions put on it to protect the
neighbours."
Blainey had never heard of a rat farm
before trick mentioned it. Blainey went
on to say that rats could potentially
affect livestock.
According to Orkin Canada, Rats
are accountable for the transmission
of numerous diseases. They also said
rats feeding habits are damaging and
their nesting behaviors can compro-
mise the structure of infested
buildings.
The next council meeting for Huron
County is Aug 4.
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