Alert in the United Kingdom for rats ‘the size of cats’ that come out of toilets

The covid-19 pandemic produced major changes at the workplace level. Remote work has increased in many cities around the world and, although some cities in Europe have returned to face-to-face work with the drop in infections, other companies have preferred to keep working from home.

But, this lack of work on site has meant that there is not as much food abandoned in the city centers, so, in the United Kingdom there has been a plague of rats ‘the size of cats’ that invade the toilets of the population.

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With their highly flexible bones, which allow them to enter pipes, and their ability to breathe underwater for more than three minutes, these animals have the ideal conditions to be housed in home toilets.

“There is plenty of rat food right now, with ripe fruit and harvest crops, so the rat population is peaking right now”, declared Paul Bates, representative of Cleankill Pest Control, for the British newspaper ‘The Sun’.

Norwich City Council, in the east of England, has some recommendations to citizens to avoid this problem.

These include keeping the toilet lid closed and always lowering the chain before using it. In addition, they warn that the doors of the garages and the entrances must remain well closed so that these rodents cannot get through.

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As the UK braces for one of the coldest seasons in 30 years, rats are looking for food and warmth in homes. They feed on human feces and dead rats first, then enter the home in search of fresh food.

Rats of more than 30 centimeters can cause damage to the wiring, because with their sharp teeth they break the electricity cables, a situation that could cause a fire, and destroy the interior system of cars.

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This plague not only scares the inhabitants of the house, but it can also cause illness and become a public health problem.

According to information from ‘The Sun’, Peter Higgs, director of PGH Pest Control, assured that most rats have Weil’s disease in their systeman infection that humans can contract through the urine of the infected species and that, without treatment, causes fever, bleeding and even death.

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