By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 10:34 EST, 12 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:45 EST, 12 February 2013 . A woman has been evicted from a trailer park after hundreds of pet rats were found inside her mobile home. Darlene Flatoff ‘s trailer in Plover, Wisconsin, was found to be infested with rat faeces and the rodents had chewed their way through walls and floorboards. Authorities were shocked of the state of the trailer and exterminator Matthew Schnider said it was the worst case he had seen in his entire career. Rat race: The exterminator shows where the rats have eaten their way through the floorboards inside the infested trailer . Gift that keeps on giving: Darlene Flatoff was given her first pet rat as a present, ending up with 300 as they reproduced, of which a few dozen remain after her eviction . Meanwhile Ms Flatoff said the rats were her friend sand didn’t cause any harm, WAOW.com reported. Ms Flatoff’s around 300 ‘friends’ began as a single pet rat gifted to her, and it is believed that the rats simply multiplied the natural way, taking over the trailer. 'They've chewed out the floor boards,’ Mr Schneider told adding that he has never seen anything like it in this 20 years as an exterminator . ‘When you get to this amount of infestation, they're going to do a ton of damage’ Kicked out: Ms Flatoff was evicted from this mobile home in Plover, Wisconsin after allowing her pets to take over the trailer . Filthy: The floor of the mobile home is covered in rat droppings and there are several holes in walls and carpets where the rodents have chewed their way through . Swiss cheese walls: One of the pet rats can be seen lurking in a hole underneath a cupboard . 'You could see them in the windows, . that's how many there were,' The manager of the trailer park Miguel . Lopeez said. ‘The smell is just unbearable.' Portage County Sheriff's officers say after warning Ms Flatoff several times to get rid of the rats, she was evicted and the Town of Plover condemned the property. Authorities say roughly 300 rats lived with Ms Flatoff at one time, with few dozen remaining after her eviction, WAOW reported. The property is to be cleared of the rats before authorities decide how to proceed. Caught: Exterminator Matthew Schneider carries an armful of cages to trap the remaining rats .
Darlene Flatoff kept hundreds of rats as pets in her Wisconsin trailer .
Rodents destroyed mobile home and chewed through floorboards .
By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 10:34 EST, 12 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:45 EST, 12 February 2013 . A woman has been evicted from a trailer park after hundreds of pet rats were found inside her mobile home. Darlene Flatoff ‘s trailer in Plover, Wisconsin, was found to be infested with rat faeces and the rodents had chewed their way through walls and floorboards. Authorities were shocked of the state of the trailer and exterminator Matthew Schnider said it was the worst case he had seen in his entire career. Rat race: The exterminator shows where the rats have eaten their way through the floorboards inside the infested trailer . Gift that keeps on giving: Darlene Flatoff was given her first pet rat as a present, ending up with 300 as they reproduced, of which a few dozen remain after her eviction . Meanwhile Ms Flatoff said the rats were her friend sand didn’t cause any harm, WAOW.com reported. Ms Flatoff’s around 300 ‘friends’ began as a single pet rat gifted to her, and it is believed that the rats simply multiplied the natural way, taking over the trailer. 'They've chewed out the floor boards,’ Mr Schneider told adding that he has never seen anything like it in this 20 years as an exterminator . ‘When you get to this amount of infestation, they're going to do a ton of damage’ Kicked out: Ms Flatoff was evicted from this mobile home in Plover, Wisconsin after allowing her pets to take over the trailer . Filthy: The floor of the mobile home is covered in rat droppings and there are several holes in walls and carpets where the rodents have chewed their way through . Swiss cheese walls: One of the pet rats can be seen lurking in a hole underneath a cupboard . 'You could see them in the windows, . that's how many there were,' The manager of the trailer park Miguel . Lopeez said. ‘The smell is just unbearable.' Portage County Sheriff's officers say after warning Ms Flatoff several times to get rid of the rats, she was evicted and the Town of Plover condemned the property. Authorities say roughly 300 rats lived with Ms Flatoff at one time, with few dozen remaining after her eviction, WAOW reported. The property is to be cleared of the rats before authorities decide how to proceed. Caught: Exterminator Matthew Schneider carries an armful of cages to trap the remaining rats .
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