Ratmageddon: Why rats are overrunning our cities
2 days ago
Justin RowlattClimate Editor
One morning last year, John Gladwin opened the cupboard under his kitchen sink and discovered a bag of soil he'd been storing there was torn to shreds.
Days later he noticed a pungent smell too. It was musty and slightly astringent, not unlike the communal bin area in his block of flats.
"I knew what it was straight away," he says. "Rats."
He'd often seen them scurrying around near bins. Now they were inside his home too.
"I heard them in the cupboards and behind the bath panel. One morning when I woke up they were fighting under the bath, screaming and squealing."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gvk397j80o
