Mick Cant wrote:
Hi all,

My problem is Rats!

I live in a sheltered housing complex ran by a Housing Association.

We are not far from a river, and I can see some of the rat holes in the
banks.


Most likely water voles actually. Nice little things.

Rats tend to hang around humans, where free meals abound.

I live in a very nice ground floor flat, that had new plastic double glazed
windows fitted around a year ago, what concerns me is that they pivot from
the top and swing outwards at the bottom, and there are shrubs in borders
that are at window cill height below every window.

I and other residents are worried that hungry rats could come indoors via
the open windows; I have known them do this at a nearby kitchen not in our
complex.



If the windows were the type that tilted so they could be opened at the top
instead of the bottom we would feel safer, but they do not so is there a
guard that could be used at the openings or would it be reasonable to ask
them to reduce the height of the shrubs?



I realise rats are a big problem; they are often by the doors if I go out at
and seem braver in that they do not scatter when I appear.


If they really are rats, call rodent control.

A few pipes full of warfarin or equivalent laden food will see em vanish.



Can anyone give any advice please?

Mick.