Moorpark Passes Anti-Rodenticide Resolution
Following in the footsteps of the city of Calibasas and Malibu, Moorpark City Council passed a resolution last week, urging businesses in the City of Moorpark to no longer use or sell anticoagulant rodenticides. The resolution also urges all property owners to cease purchasing or using anticoagulant rodenticides on their properties, and solidifies the City’s commitment to not using anticoagulant rodenticides as part of its maintenance program for City-owned parks, open space and facilities.
Additionally, several businesses in Agoura Hills have stopped stocking and selling the poisons which has been the primary reason for the decline in natural rodent predators including bobcat, owls, hawks, herons, and coyote.
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In response to a request to stop selling the anticoagulant rat bait, Do-It Center states:
Dear Nona,
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I wanted to let you know that we have removed the D-Con anticoagulant rat poisons from our shelves in Agoura.
In an effort to give our customers a safe alternative, we will be bringing in a non-toxic product (corn meal based) from Ratx. I have attached a product information page for your viewing. I think this will allow our customers to continue to control these pests effectively while allowing a safe alternative for the other animals.
Let me know your thoughts.
With sincerity,
Tony Capitelli, Buyer, California Do-It Centers/DIY Centers
Ralph's Agoura Hills, Roadside Lumber, and West Valley Horse Center have also said they have ceased selling the aforementioned poisons.
Agoura Hay and Feed, declined to participate in the efforts to save wildlife. The owner, Denese Petrillo, said that she runs a small family owned business, and that she could not afford to stop selling the poisons. Even when offered her cost to clear her shelves of the product in-stock, she was not interested in helping out. Members of the Las Virgenes Homeowner's Federation are urging a boycott stores who refuse to take the rodentcides off their shelves.