Help - our street is full of rats and mice
A Tuffley street has been infested with mice and rats.
That is according to Graham Roberts, of Ivory Close, who said the situation has got so bad at his next door neighbour’s home he is now unable to look after his own grandson.
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Graham Roberts
“Because of all the mess over there we have got rats and mice everywhere,” said the 62 year-old.
“My wife went into our food cupboard the other day and found mice in there. They’re running riot. Some neighbours have even found them running up the net curtains
“I can’t even bring my own grandson into my house anymore because of all the mice, and of course I have had to put poison down.”
Mr Roberts usually looks after his grandson Rio, who is 18 months old, every weekend.
His neighbour, David Cameron, was recently ordered to pay £900 in fines and costs at Gloucester Magistrates’ Court for failing to tidy up his garden and he repeatedly ignored orders to put the garden of his home in order.
Mr Roberts, who has lived at his Ivory Close home for the past 15 years with his wife Jillian, claims that the garden is still unbearably untidy.
“You wouldn’t believe the state of it, it’s got beyond the joke now it really has,” he added.
“There are brambles, tyres, rubbish you name it.
“Everyone is up in arms here, there is a block of six homes and it is effecting us all.
“This needs to be sorted out. I’m a council tenant and if it was me I would have been evicted by now. He is a private tenant and he is still there.”
Mr Roberts added that he has spoke to Mr Cameron in the past and has an amicable relationship with him.
Mr Cameron is not believed to live in the house.
A Gloucester City Council spokesman said: “We have to give the resident a reasonable amount of time to tidy his property.
“The court expect us to give him a reasonable amount of time to tidy up.
“With regards to rodents, when we initially went to the house there was no sign of any rodents, but if there is a problem now we would urge residents to get in touch.”
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by Mrs J Roberts, Gloucester
Thursday, February 18 2010, 12:32PM
“To the comment of " get a cat" im sure you would say the same if you lived in the house next door with this problem............ O.k smart ass what if your allergic to cats?”
by Saintly 1, Gloster
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 10:39PM
“Hey come on the Council and your Departments .. Sort this lot sorted out. This what we pay our well earned money in taxes for !!!!...
So where is our local Councillor in all this matter .. His he around to help sort it out..
Pull Ya Fingers out ..”
by JN, Gloucester
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 8:35PM
“Yes, there is a real rat problem entirely the making of the waste disposal organisation. My garden waste bin has not been cleared since before christmas despite endless phone calls and promises that someone will clear it immediately. We now have 147 rats collected humanly and kept alive which we have collected from our site and numerous other sites in the
same boat. We now intend to let these vermin free in the council building in the docks - it is costing us money to feed them - and we will see what effect this has on getting our bins cleared tidily and on time”
by an observer, severnside
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 2:53PM
“Why all this paranoia about rats? Rats are in the drains and you're never more than a few metres away from them as we all know. The important thing is to keep them out of your house and garden by denying them a food source.
We live in a village and occasional rat-incursions from the fields at the rear of our houses has always been a fact of life, although our dog and three cats keep them well at bay. However our rural idyll became rather less ideal with the arrival next door of a crazy woman from Bishops Cleeve who immediately started complaining about virtually everything in general and rats in particular.
Before you could say Tewkesbury B. Council, everyone in the neighbourhood got a snotty letter from them telling them to stop feeding the birds - something some of them had done, without incident, for years. The daftest thing about all this was the crazy woman saying she was worried the rats would attack her three miniature Yorkshire Terriers, a breed specifically bred to - you¿ve got it - kill bloody rats!”
by Ade, Glos
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 11:46AM
“Ironic really considering Racoons are considered vermin in america. lol”
by Jackie, Gloucester
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 11:46AM
“Chris- food and re-cyle boxes are collected weekly, the garden and land-fill bins are collected alternate weeks”
by Mal, Local
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 11:36AM
“I seem to recall this very same problem was reported to the City Council and published here on TiG sone monthhs ago.
If I'm correct,then the City Council should send a team in to clear up the place and send the bill to the offending householder.
Chris,I believe that kitchen (food) waste is collected weekly.
It's only the landfill bin (my term) that's gone onto fortnightly.”
by Chris, Gloucester
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 11:20AM
“If you think it's bad now just wait until the bin men only come half as often as they do now and we have bins of kitchen waste all over the place.
As someone else said better get yourself a big mean ginger tom.”
by Steve, Cheltenham
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 11:05AM
“It doesn't matter where you go its the same, too many people have no respect for any one else and think nothing of throwing their rubbish out of cars etc. The cleanliness of the streets is appauling and that is why their is a rat problem.”
by Severn Bore, Gloucester
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 11:04AM
“Yes, perhaps "Racoon" would like to pop round and help the residents of Ivory Close by doing an impression of Richard Gere!”