{"id":673296,"date":"2026-01-04T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673296\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:57:22","slug":"hundreds-of-bristol-homes-treated-for-rat-infestations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673296\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Bristol homes treated for rat infestations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pest control experts made nearly 4,000 visits<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_A-group-of-small-gray-rodents-with-fur-likely-mice-or-rats-gathered-closely-together-on-a-dark-su..webp\" alt=\"Rats can find ways into your car and cause major damage\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Rats can find ways into your car and cause major damage(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pest control experts treated almost 1,000 infestations of rats in homes across Bristol over the last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bristol-city-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Bristol City Council<\/a> team carried out work at 1,340 residential premises over a total of 3,800 visits and got rid of 300 instances of mice, 60 wasps, 30 other insects, and 950 rats, according to the authority\u2019s environment health annual report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The report said: \u201cThe pest control service provides a highly specialist service to BCC housing residents, through service level agreements with BCC housing and landlord services and parks. \u201cThey treat infestations of insects, rats, mice, wasps and other pests to the most vulnerable residents of Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThey provide services in some of the most complex areas that many commercial pest control agencies will not undertake. The service also has a small number of external clients such <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-fire-and-rescue\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Avon Fire and Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt provides a service to the most vulnerable non-BCC tenants and works closely with Adults and Social Care to help with high-risk cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The report said pest control also submitted referrals to safeguarding or housing officers where there were concerns about vulnerable residents, such as issues with hoarding, which can attract pests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The department forms part of the council\u2019s public protection environmental health service which also has specialists in pollution control, food safety, health and safety, infectious disease control, and port health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pest control experts made nearly 4,000 visitsRats can find ways into your car and cause major damage(Image: Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,3893,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-673296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115836947226033298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}