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By Clio Chang

After Flaco was found dead earlier this year with rat poison in his system (and an apparent case of pigeon herpes), Councilmember Shaun Abreu introduced a bill named for the Eurasian owl that would pilot the use of contraceptives instead of rodenticides to help control the city’s rat problem. (Rat poison also played a role in the death of Barry, another celebrity owl.) In the proposed pilot, pellets would be spread in a series of ten-block zones around the city and have their efficacy tracked over the course of a year. The rats will apparently eat these pellets because, according to Dr. Loretta Mayer, the co-founder of SenesTech and the scientist behind the product Abreu focused on in his proposal, they taste “better than pizza.”