this is literally the one thing we have going for us here

I live near Medicine Hat (southeastern Alberta) and a few years ago we had some concerns that rats had crossed the border. For about a month, that dominated the news cycle and we were constantly told to call in if we have any suspicions if we see a rat. Alberta takes its rat-free status very seriously.

This entire video is untrue. Justin Trudope visits our province at least once per year and yet no extermination team is dispatched to take him out

Thirty years in Alberta and I never saw a rat. Finally saw rats when I moved to Victoria. I appreciate Alberta’s full commitment to the rat-free status.

The rat population in my city actually slowed down during the pandemic lockdown. Their main found source leftovers from restaurant was suddenly gone. So the rats resorted into cannibalism. The rats were then easily hunted by stray cats for being skinny and weak.

Gonna refer to Antarctica as the "bonus continent" forever now.

I remember my dad ABRUPTLY stopped our truck in the middle of the road at like 3am because he saw what looked like a rat. He got out and ran to it and was so angry that there could be a rat. He called 211 (information for the city) and was on the phone with them for while ebcause it was a "serious matter". Its a big deal here. My dad still will sometimes bring up his close encounter with a rat story because its just THAT unheard of here lol

I remember growing up and thinking rats only lived in new york (since i lived in Alberta and had never seen a rat before)

In Calgary (a city of 1-1.5 million in Alberta), it was front page news a few years ago when 5 rats were found in an alley. Name any other city like that (except Edmonton, also in Alberta) where 6 rats in an alley is even news.

Came here looking for comments about how Alberta had rats and they were called politicians and was not disappointed

I live in Alberta and found a dead pet rat in a bag and I called the report-a-rat number and no lie a man drove 30 mins from another community to come confiscate it. He acted like it was just another day.

This is the first time that I'd ever heard Canada has superior streaming services to the US and I'm Canadian. Usually we get notices saying that the copyright holder didn't allow this to be streamed in your country...

As someone who works for a county agriculture department in central Alberta, let me say that in my 2 years of working there, we had 1 potential rat spotting… that turned out to be a frog… yep.

I live in Alberta and it’s true…. ….we do have Batman Begins on Netflix.

We truly don't have any 4 legged rats in Alberta, we do however still have the 2 legged politician kind.

I grew up in Alberta Canada, but we do have rats, BIG ONES, they're called bears

“This led to the deaths of countless farm animals and pets, so naturally the government discontinued the program for costing too much money” God I love this channel

this is hilarious as someone who lives in Alberta

It's rough in BC (next to Alberta). We have to all work very hard to keep them contained in our province. We are conscripted to manage the border. Its just a flat plain between Dawson Creek BC and Grande Prairie Alberta. No mountains. Just a thin line of devoted Canadians. We use Scottish Terrier teams though.

It’s so nice you guys. I haven’t seen a rat since moving here 12 years ago. When we moved to BC, the first couple days we caught a huge rat in our old farm house

As a born and raised Albertan, I have never seen a wild rat in my life.

Growing up in calgary, I've always thought that rats were an american thing. I had no idea that it was just alberta that didn't have rats.

Albertan here, Alberta is great, we have awesome fishing, better mountains than the states does, far less people ruining all of the good places for back country camping, the best large game hunting in North America... provided you can handle the occasional -40 weather, random snowfalls during any day of summer, snow not actually leaving until early May, only having swimming in lake weather during mid June to late August, and even then the majority of the lakes are still on 20°C ,and a 50/50 chance of snow that lasts 2-6 days mid September, snap warm weather in mid January for a week that melts all of the snow that you would otherwise go sledding on. And best of all 6-7 months of winter.

Mice are very much present in Alberta. Dealt with one only recently! At our law office digital storage is very important instead of physical paper copies, among other factors, for mice and flood damage.

Wow, this hai guy sounds a lot like that lame logistics person Wendover productions. The video was so family friendly, and friendly.

Eeeeey, finally the province I live in is getting recognized for something other than beef or oil.

The SKS stock footage was a nice touch. Our national rifle!

When I was a kid in Ontario, I would see rats from time to time, since moving to Alberta in 1976, not one...except when my wife and I drove to Seattle for a weekend, we saw lots. She was born in Alberta and had never seen one before, and was horrified by them.

Just finished a cookie

Canadian mob: “Eyyy boss, we just found out Tony’s a rat!” Mob boss: “I knew there was something fishy bout that guy. Call 310rats right now!”

The rat control zone makes me think of when we were younger, whenever we left the door open my grandmother with yell RATS! like as if in that moment thousands were about to come running in; needless to say I don't generally leave doors open anymore MaxLOL

As someone who lives in Alberta, I can say I never knew what a rat was until I watched ratatouille

I like how 90% of the footage of Alberta is just Canmore

If two rats can multiply into 15000 in a year, imagine how much only one can multiply into in a year...

There was an awful lot of Banff for a video about an entire province. Fun fact: the pesky varmint in Banff is the marten. Comin' in for them banquet muffins at the hotels.

thats another reason i love livin in alberta so much

I live in Montana. Genuinely have never seen a rat. Maybe our proximity to Alberta has benefits.

my mum tried to convince me not to leave Alberta mostly by saying "they have rats out east you know"

Alberta monitors rats more than the US monitors people with mental health issues buying guns

I saw one last year in Edmonton, massive one too, hanging out by a storm drain in Keswick which is a fairly upscale neighborhood. So definitely rare but not nonexistent :)

“Only a single pair of rats can lead to 15,000 in over a year.” SWEET HOME ALABAMA

“rats aren’t in alberta because its cold there” also Alberta in a heatwave

19 years of life and I never knew about this. One more thing to be proud of, I guess.

Can confirm as someone who lives in said frozen farmland , never seen a rat before so they must be doing a decent job 🤟🏻

Damn, Alberta looking THICC in that map projection.

Grew up in Alberta, was legitimately shocked the first time I ever saw a rat (when I was like 14) when I was in the US

I live in Alberta and I have never seen a rat in person. Alberta is so intense about rats.

Any true man of culture would already know about this from the Ratatouille DVD extras

"and a vox series that stole our idea" LOL

They also have large snakes, that has to help.

The roasting in this video is A+ 🤣

"This is a map of all the people in the world who don't live in Alberta, Canada. _INTERESTINGLY_ you can see the only place in the world that doesn't have people who don't live in Alberta, Canada is Alberta, Canada"

Saskatchewan is also actively battling rat and also sparsely populated. This makes Alberta even more rat free

Can confirm that my childhood was spent on the Alberta side of south central Alberta about 15 minutes from the Saskatchewan boarder, never once did we see a rat or even heard of a sighting. But we damn sure knew who to call, it was like Ghostbusters but for rats…no joke.

Live in Northern Alberta and am 34 years old. I have never seen one rat here ever!

For the record: Some of the footage of rats are actually mice and voles. Also, that species of squirrel is not found in Alberta and that isn't a muskrat: It is a nutria (which also isn't found in Alberta).

The fact that we have +40 and -50 in the span of 6 months probably also helps a little.

30 years in Alberta , I've NEVER seen a rat

I've seen a rat in Alberta when Boston comes to town.

I've lived in Alberta my whole life and it struck me while watching this video... I've never actually seen a real live rat in person before

I live in Alberta and while I was on a walking tour in London I was more intrigued by the rats than whatever the tour guide was talking about lol

Hello, I am from Saskatchewan! Glad to see my homeland get mentioned!

I left "Windfall, Alberta" in January in 1961. It was "only" minus kajillion below for three weeks. Tulsa looked like a banana plantation: "only" minus twenty below wind chill.

Plot twist : The Pied Piper is actually from Alberta

Alberta is a lot thiccer then i remember in school. Almost like we took over part of BC

21 year old Albertan, Ive literally never seen a rat in person. Its pretty neat living in the only rat free populated place

i literally only saw 3 rats in my lifetime in alberta and those only times i saw em was at school around one of the fields

Interesting, I didn’t know that the only people who don’t don’t live in Alberta Canada, are in Alberta Canada. 🤔

As an Albertan this is nice to have a video about us.

Living here i never seen a rat in my life

I thought you were gonna mention how our winters get down to lows of -40 but are typically in the -30s and our summers can get as hot as +40 but hover around the +30s. Y'know, harsh weather and living conditions. I didn't know there were essentially rat-walls on three sides of the province and a security force on the fourth.

Stopping the Poison program not because morals but because of money is a classic Alberta move

As someone who was born and raised in Alberta but to Libyan parents, lets just say the absolute shock of seeing a rat for the first time in my life at 22 was apparent to everyone in Libya while visiting

Alberta is free of Norway rats, but has two native rat species that are not targeted by its rat program, the bushy tailed wood rat and Ord's kangaroo rat.

Woke up hearing a mouse in the walls. Think I’m gonna pack it up for Alberta it seems

As an Albertan I can attest to this. We send all our rat's to Ottawa.

Calls the rat hotline: I - I - I think my neighbour is secretly a rat

We do not have rats, but we have mice, and they get everywhere.

About 10 years ago, I was working in the Sherwood Park, Alberta Industrial Park, near the dump and rendering plant. I had a good view of what looked like a rat, but could have been a muskrat. I reported it to our OHS officer, and he told me to forget about it. He didn't want to do the paperwork.

It’s funny how the harsh environment in Alberta keeps out lots of things I don’t want to be here: rats, ticks, poisonous reptiles, large insects, poisonous insects, and people. Edit: Thank you everyone for informing me that everything I just listed (except rats) exists in southern Alberta. Please keep in mind that this was a joke (maybe not a very good one but that’s beside the point) and stop taking it so seriously.

Next video on Wendover Productions: Why Lichtenstein is a Plane-Free Place (With Humans)

bro had it going with the first statement

The Netflix is always greener on the other side.

When Ken Linesman went to the Edmonton Oilers the Calgary Sun newspaper had front page headline. ALBERTA IS NO LONGER RAT FREE! His nickname was "The Rat"

Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

I was in new Brunswick for 5 years living there and the rat traps all around the house are terrifying. Happy to go back k to alberta

I have been living in Lethbridge for less than a year and have seen rats in an apartment building as well as a dead rat on the side of a road in downtown Lethbridge.

That's funny how the guy was shooting a Russian SKS. Canada's favorite cheap rifle!

What I've learned from this comment section is Albertans are consistently funnier than the rest of us

The rat renting a 4 wheeler 👌🏻🤙🏻💯

"Free Healthcare" 😂 Good one.

You'd think Ohio or Montana would have the "nobody wants to live there" advantage over rats

What I learned from this video: James Corden needs to be kept out of Alberta

As a bricklayer I've always wondered what the cheesy smell was

Here in Alberta we are so serious about rats that years ago when a mutant, hairless squirrel was found dead in a Calgary stairwell, it was thought to be a rat and the story dominated the news cycle above wars and politics for days. True story. Also, we don't have narwhals.

My grandpa served as one of the Alberta's rat control officers. He would literally drive up and down the border looking for evidence of rats.

"Bring rats to Alberta" is now No. 1 on my to-do list if I ever become an evil lord.

I live loaded a load of scrap rubber in Edmonton. I opened the trailer doors in Winnipeg and what ran out of the trailer? A Rat! 🤣

I worked as a pipe fitter at Calgary stampede renovations years ago and found a dead rat in a shaft , probably hitched a ride in a horse trailer

How wonderful to see my province featured on HAI!