Steven Gray, who lives in a council property on Golfdrum Street, has told the Press that his home has become infested with the rodents.
He first noticed the issue several weeks ago but says that the rats have become an “ongoing problem.”
He commented: “I could hear something, I thought it was maybe mice.
“I could hear something running in the living room, I put my torch on, boom! Big dirty rat!
“I was pretty freaked out.”
Steven says he went to Fife Council about the issue and pest control was sent out. However, he believes rubbish from a neighbouring property may be attracting the vermin to his home.
He says that there is nobody in the property downstairs from him, and refuse is being chucked into the garden.
Steven says he was also warned by pest control that the rats may get more active after poison was put down.
“I could hear more than one, I could hear them up the stairs, I could hear them down the stairs.
“They had me hostage in my living room.
“It’s like something out of a horror story.”
Now Steven no-longer wants to stay in the property, but claims the council told him to stay with a relative in that case.
“All that rubbish lying in the garden downstairs, that’s just attracting them.
“In this day and age, you don’t expect to be told to go back there – a house with rats in it.
“It’s really freaked me right out, it’s gave me the heebie jeebies.
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“You can’t expect somebody to go back to a place with rats, I’ve got a five-year-old boy, I can’t take him there.” He said.
“I am going to ask them if they can rehouse me, they need to do something as I am not going back there.
“They should have told me it was an ongoing problem, even my neighbour said there’s rats here.”
Fife Council’s housing manager Lynne Johnston confirmed that pest control colleagues are already working to deal with this.
She said: “Traps have been set and officers are due to return in the coming days to check these.
“We’ll continue to keep in touch and provide advice to the householder on how to avoid this problem arising again in the future.”