A Leeds man who was engaged in a real-life cat and mouse game with 'clever rats' was forced to endure a strong stench of dead decaying rodents in his wall cavity - and battle flies the smell attracted.
Rory Baird, who lived on Manor Drive in Headingley says he tried every single trick in the book to rid his house of rats, before settling on his landlord's plan to trap the rats inside the walls and starve them. Mr Baird, who shared his home with four other friends, said his problems with rodents began from the very first day they moved in.
Mr Baird said: "We had a problem in my last house, on Manor Drive. You could see and hear them running across the kitchen floor and even making it upstairs to the living room. I told the landlord and we set some traps, although they were only mouse traps so didn't kill the animal.
