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  CALGARY -- Alberta saw a spike of rat reports in 2020, double what is received in a typical year but it turns out it's not as bad as it sounds. Out of 481 reported rat sightings in 2020, only 26 year were confirmed to actually be rats. More often than not, the reported sightings have turned out to be other rodents – mostly  muskrats -  as opposed to Norway rats or roof rats. Karen Wickerson, specialist at Alberta’s Rat Control Program says that they usually receive a couple of reports daily with increases during the spring and fall,  as that’s when muskrats are most active.

Posted: Jan 19, 2021 4:00 AM MT | Last Updated: January 23 Rats like these aren't welcome in Alberta. The province launched a new email address last year, 310RATS@gov.ab.ca, to report sightings of the rodents — dead or alive.(Sanjay Kanojia/AFP via Getty Images)

Article content If you’ve ever watched a mafia movie, you’ve seen a character or 2 mention how nobody likes a “rat” – a crook who tells on other crooks. In Alberta, we take it a bit more literally – we mean the rodents and take every measure possible to make sure they know it and don’t make a home here. This year marks 70 years of Alberta’s Rat Control Program. Started in 1950, the program ensures Albertans are safe from the environmental and economic destruction rats cause (chewing through crops, food storage and property) and the diseases they carry with them (like hantaviru...