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Ah, Paris. It's a city of light, a city of love ... and a city of rats.
Trash left by picnickers in the Louvre Museum's gardens have attracted hundreds of the pesky rodents. Some have grown so bold that they run onto the grass during the day; although foliage throughout the Tuileries Gardens provides cover for the rats, they still dart around openly.
The Louvre has been working on controlling them, but its pest problem remains. Dutch tourist Evelyne Delemarre, 31, let out a piercing scream on Tuesday when a rat scampered by her
Jean-Claude Ndzana Ekani, a museum employee who works with technicians from a pest-control company, said animal lovers have also helped the rats by giving them water, and digging up the poison meant to kill them Read more...
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