'If you see a rat, you've got a problem': RMs want more money for rat extermination

Richard Tessier had a rat problem.
It was about 10 years ago, and the rodents — which have a reputation for destroying everything they can sink their teeth into — had infiltrated his farm in the Rural Municipality of Coalfields, southeast of Bienfait.
Tessier caught the infestation early. He shot a couple and killed at least five more with poison-laced bait provided through a rat control program funded by the provincial and federal governments.
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