Authorities say that people should be very careful with rats after the rain

According to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, people should be very careful with rats after the rain because they are flushed up by the water.

They advice people to close up the holes and not to leave food exposed anywhere they could reach it. The statistics say that calls to companies that kill rats have increased by a quarter these days.

Rats are nocturnal rodents and they have the chance to adapt to the situation they face each time. They can reproduce easily and they carry bacteria on them which can be devastating for people’s lives.

NPTA vice-chairman Adam Hawley told the BBC: “We’re having an incredible summer of rain, and the sewers and drains are not coping with the amount of flood water that inevitably flushes the rats to higher ground. With that, rats are trying to find some sort of dwelling to live in – whether they then try to move into people’s garages or sheds, or into people’s lofts to get away from the flood water. The knock-on effect is, potentially, that people’s dwellings are getting rat infestations.”

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