The new renters behind me aren't hauling their trash or paying for a service to remove it. They just put all the bags of garbage behind their shed which is about 3 feet from my fence. Now there are rats. One of my cats has jumped the fence and carried 2 into my yard. We saw him do it, Lord only knows how many others he has captured. The owner was at the property about 10 days ago and was mad about the trash and hauled it off. We just noticed the rodents Monday so I haven't had a chance to talk to him about this. I do not want to chance anything from coming in my house. I keep my yard clean of debris and trash but my shed is about 5 feet from theirs so there is a chance they could slip in and nest. I need opinions of how to keep the rats out! I know someone else had a similar issue a while back, FWM I think.
The new renters behind me aren't hauling their trash or paying for a service to remove it. They just put all the bags of garbage behind their shed which is about 3 feet from my fence. Now there are rats. One of my cats has jumped the fence and carried 2 into my yard. We saw him do it, Lord only knows how many others he has captured. The owner was at the property about 10 days ago and was mad about the trash and hauled it off. We just noticed the rodents Monday so I haven't had a chance to talk to him about this. I do not want to chance anything from coming in my house. I keep my yard clean of debris and trash but my shed is about 5 feet from theirs so there is a chance they could slip in and nest. I need opinions of how to keep the rats out! I know someone else had a similar issue a while back, FWM I think.
Call code enforcement.
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The new renters behind me aren't hauling their trash or paying for a service to remove it. They just put all the bags of garbage behind their shed which is about 3 feet from my fence. Now there are rats. One of my cats has jumped the fence and carried 2 into my yard. We saw him do it, Lord only knows how many others he has captured. The owner was at the property about 10 days ago and was mad about the trash and hauled it off. We just noticed the rodents Monday so I haven't had a chance to talk to him about this. I do not want to chance anything from coming in my house. I keep my yard clean of debris and trash but my shed is about 5 feet from theirs so there is a chance they could slip in and nest. I need opinions of how to keep the rats out! I know someone else had a similar issue a while back, FWM I think.
Call code enforcement.
Code enforcement is a joke here. We (the whole neighborhood) have been trying for about 3 years to get a derelict home demolished and removed. It has trees growing in it. It has mold going up the walls. There are no doors, front and back included. The wiring has been ripped out of the walls for the copper. We started complaining when the neighborhood children started playing inside. It is dangerous. City won't do squat about it.
The new renters behind me aren't hauling their trash or paying for a service to remove it. They just put all the bags of garbage behind their shed which is about 3 feet from my fence. Now there are rats. One of my cats has jumped the fence and carried 2 into my yard. We saw him do it, Lord only knows how many others he has captured. The owner was at the property about 10 days ago and was mad about the trash and hauled it off. We just noticed the rodents Monday so I haven't had a chance to talk to him about this. I do not want to chance anything from coming in my house. I keep my yard clean of debris and trash but my shed is about 5 feet from theirs so there is a chance they could slip in and nest. I need opinions of how to keep the rats out! I know someone else had a similar issue a while back, FWM I think.
Call code enforcement.
Code enforcement is a joke here. We (the whole neighborhood) have been trying for about 3 years to get a derelict home demolished and removed. It has trees growing in it. It has mold going up the walls. There are no doors, front and back included. The wiring has been ripped out of the walls for the copper. We started complaining when the neighborhood children started playing inside. It is dangerous. City won't do squat about it.
That's a vacant house - no one for code enforcement to be harping on. Here - they have the offenders living right in the house.
It doesn't hurt to call and lodge the complaint.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
The neighbors behind us have urban chickens. I suspect, the chicken feed was attracting the rats last year.
So far, so good, this year.
I haven't seen any dead rats in my yard in a while.
I'm with LL on calling code enforcement.
If the rats come back, that's what I'll probably have to do.
(Our backyards are to small to have chickens legally. I'm a live and let live kind of a person. But, if the rats come back, I'll have to do something.)
Go around your house and fill any cracks with steel wool.
I don't know what to tell you about the cats. They are doing what they were made to do.
While code may be a joke, the health department will probably take a rat infestation seriously.
If that doesn't work, talk to the local paper and news team.
That house you want torn down? Include that.
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I do have an app on my phone for the code enforcement department. If I take a photo and send it they get the GPS location without me saying a thing. The owner is a very nice man. I just don't want him to get in trouble. He was trying to be nice and rent the home to another neighbor's daughter and her "baby daddy". Now they have another couple living there too. Four adults and a baby make a lot of trash.
The first house on our road is a rental, cute little house, but the current renters are not very tidy.
Thet have been cleaning it up. I think something was said to them.
But for a while, it was horrible.
It's a couple with 6 girls and a boy.
Cutest kids you've ever seen.
And a chihuahua barely bigger than a coffee mug.
He likes to lay just in the road at the end of their driveway when he is out.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I do have an app on my phone for the code enforcement department. If I take a photo and send it they get the GPS location without me saying a thing. The owner is a very nice man. I just don't want him to get in trouble. He was trying to be nice and rent the home to another neighbor's daughter and her "baby daddy". Now they have another couple living there too. Four adults and a baby make a lot of trash.
You will be doing him a favor to take pictures and such so he can evict them. They will ruin his house. If their are any kids living there, perhaps a call placed to CPS is warranted.
"him" being the owner.
-- Edited by I know what to do_sometimes on Wednesday 20th of April 2016 07:15:08 PM
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I do have an app on my phone for the code enforcement department. If I take a photo and send it they get the GPS location without me saying a thing. The owner is a very nice man. I just don't want him to get in trouble. He was trying to be nice and rent the home to another neighbor's daughter and her "baby daddy". Now they have another couple living there too. Four adults and a baby make a lot of trash.
You will be doing him a favor to take pictures and such so he can evict them. They will ruin his house. If their are any kids living there, perhaps a call placed to CPS is warranted.
"him" being the owner.
-- Edited by I know what to do_sometimes on Wednesday 20th of April 2016 07:15:08 PM
They have a baby, less than a year old. It's sad. The girl used to live across from the rental with her mother. House and yard was and still is always immaculate. I'm really surprised that her mother hasn't gotten onto her.
Oh my! Rats are hard to get rid off once they set up housekeeping.
We had to let the town board know about the rats in our neighborhood when they set up a home in a newly caved in basement across the street. Everyone was seeing rats, including a member of the town board. They had the owner refill the basement and they set out poison.
It took a few months, but they finally got rid of the rats.
Good luck, SB, but please report the problem.
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I would call code enforcement and the owner as often as necessary. Yes, they will get annoyed with you, but if you don't you will have a much bigger problem.
I'm sorry about your code enforcement. The ones around here would be on top of that.
The only way to eliminate the rats is to eliminate their food source.
Call whoever you need to, leaving trash laying around is really unsanitary and gross.
