Man killing rats ‘every day’ that even live inside his cereal cupboard

A begetter has said helium is being forced to unrecorded successful ‘inhumane’ conditions aft his location successful Scotland became overran by rats.

Craig Lawrie, from Glasgow, said helium has been catching astatine slightest 2 rats a time for the past month, contempt continuous complaints to his lodging provider.

The 42-year-old said the vermin person been getting into his location done gaps successful his state pipes and down the cupboards successful the kitchen.

He said helium has raised the contented to Tollcross Housing Association, his lodging supplier and employed biology wellness interventions, but the concern remains ‘dire’.

‘I can’t support surviving similar this, it’s horrendous, I can’t adjacent spot my lad astatine my spot due to the fact that of the problem,’ the dada said.

‘They’re coming done the state pipes and the backmost of the room cabinets – I’m catching 2 each day, and I lone person 2 traps to enactment with.’

Craig archetypal noticed the rats earlier this year, and the occupation has persisted, contempt visits from workmen.

Craig, who is disabled and lives disconnected of Universal Credit, said the lodging relation had sent a plumber and a joiner to assistance him, but arsenic soon arsenic they saw a rat they ‘ran retired the house’.

A caller joiner past assessed the flat, and concluded that to hole the infestation, they would person to region the full kitchen.

Despite these changeless requests for help, each that has been done is ‘some foam’ dispersed astir the cabinets, helium claims – and the rats person continued to find their mode in.

Craig said biology wellness officers besides placed further traps successful the kitchen, but helium was inactive uncovering caller rats daily.

‘I support uncovering them successful the cereal cupboard. My lad came to get immoderate cereal once, and a rat jumped out,’ helium continued.

‘He was truthful shaken that helium stayed distant for 3 weeks.’

He besides has pets successful the flat, and is connected changeless alert fearing for their safety.

Craig shared that his disablement makes it precise hard for him to cleanable and reset the traps each day.

‘It’s terrible-there’s a consciousness that something’s ever lurking successful the house, and you can’t flight it,’ helium explained

‘Every day, I’m clearing retired the traps and sidesplitting these rats myself. I consciousness similar the lodging relation conscionable doesn’t attraction astir the conditions I’m surviving in.’

In a statement, the Tollcross Housing Association said: ‘Our argumentation connected pest power is to enactment with Glasgow City Council and the tenant affected.’

In London, Claire Johnson has been experiencing akin woes.

The 31-year-old from Bermondsey, southeast London, said she has heard rats moving done her walls since January 2024. 

She initially thought the occupation was mice, but they person gotten louder implicit the past fewer months, starring her to judge they are present rats.

Rats are nocturnal, meaning they are astir progressive astatine nighttime and during dawn and dusk.

Claire said they are astir progressive betwixt the hours of 2 and 5 successful the morning, which has kept her up astatine night.

‘It’s been truly hard to woody with,’ the nutritionist said.

‘I tin perceive them moving crossed the beams of the ceiling astatine nighttime and sometimes they volition bump into each different successful the walls and commencement fighting.

‘I thought they were mice initially but proceeding however dense and large they sound, I deliberation it mightiness really beryllium rats.

‘I volition regularly slumber connected my pull-out sofa furniture successful the surviving country for a spot of bid arsenic the sound is astatine its worst successful the bedroom.’

She said the infestation has been causing her a batch of stress, and she worries that idiosyncratic is ‘picking the lock’ connected her beforehand door.

Her landlord has been precise accommodating, calling pest power and has reduced her rent portion they woody with the issue.

Claire said the infestation has led to her not wanting to beryllium astatine home, spending much clip staying with her boyfriend, and travelling backmost to Huddersfield to her household home.

She added: ‘I truly similar surviving successful London and I moved present to further my vocation arsenic a nutritionist.

‘But I don’t cognize if I tin woody with surviving successful this level overmuch longer if this continues.’

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