Seaside town residents left 'living in terror' after being invaded by 'monster rats as big as cats<br /><br />A female rat usually has six litters per year, each consisting of up to 12 rat pups<br /><br /><br />Locals in Tenby, southwest Wales, are concerned the rodents are damaging the cliffs along the picturesque coastline with their burrowing<br /><br />Roger Miles, a boatman in the area, claimed the issue has got more severe in recent months, saying: 'Early evenings, dusk, early morning, rats all over the place really.<br /><br />'There's a certain area where you see parts of the cliffs at Castle Hill have been eroded.' <br /><br />A female rat usually has six litters per year, each consisting of up to 12 rat pups. <br /><br />Residents of seaside town Tenby, in southwest Wales, have been left 'living in terror' after being invaded by 'monster' rats 'as big as cats'<br /><br /> rats reach sexual maturity four or five weeks after birth, a population of two can lead to a whopping 1,250 in the space of a year, with the potential to grow even more. <br /><br />Another local, Derek Brown, told the BBC: 'It's the structural damage they might be doing to the cliff face that is the big worry.' <br /><br />The town's mayor, Sam Skyrme-Blackhall, said that the council is 'taking action' by helping to set up dozens of bait boxes to remove the rodents, according to the Metro. <br /><br />However, one local told The Sun: ‘You just can’t kill them quicker than they can breed. Once they’re here, they’re here to stay.' <br /><br />A spokesperson for Pembrokeshire Council told the BBC it is 'aware of issues with rodents' and is working to address the problem.
