Dario DiCarlo, A Grandfather @ 80, shared story of how rat’s has terrorize his home

    A grandfather has told of the horrific moment he was attacked by a rat while he was sleeping.
Dario DiCarlo, 80, was in bed at his home in Gates head, Tyne and Wear, when he felt something 'moving' across the covers.
Moments later, a sharp pain shot through his head and he reached his hand up - only to feel a rat against his skin.
A distressed Mr DiCarlo shouted out and threw the rodent from his bed, before it slunk off back into the shadows, the Chronicle reports.

           The former docker said that he has been having problems with rats for 'weeks and weeks' and even caught two in his own traps before contacting pest control.

He said he has now been forced to flee his home and sleep in his greenhouse.

Mr DiCarlo, who moved to the North East from Italy when he was 14, said: “I felt something moving when I was asleep in my bedroom and then I had a pain on the side of my head.
“When I put my hand up I felt a rat, I shouted out and it got off.
“It’s horrible to think a rat bit my head.

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He added: “Pest control visited and put poison down, but it made my eyes water and burn and I ended up having to sleep in my greenhouse. It’s just none stop, I can’t take much more. Angry daughter Anita Reynolds, 51, of Ryton added: “It makes me upset and angry to think of what my dad has to live through.
“Before the rats he had a problem with flies coming up through his shower, it’s nonstop and he has had enough.”

         A Gateshead Council spokesman said that pest control officers had visited Mr DiCarlo’s home in Garvey Villas nine times already and were continuing to do so.

He said: “Gateshead Council Pest Control officers have carried out extensive investigations at Mr DiCarlo’s property both internally and externally.

“We identified a large number of birds feeders in Mr DiCarlo’s garden at our first inspection and were told that rats had been seen feeding from them.

"Food is one of the main attractions to rats coming to properties as well as water and shelter, and on the advice of Pest Control Officers Mr DiCarlo has now removed the feeders from his property.

He added: “Rodenticide has been laid in specific areas where rats have been identified and this is being monitored and inspected on a weekly basis.