``There might have been an initial clean up by volunteers but the grass hasn't been cut and the insides of the houses - nothing's been done by the rental parties, they've moved on and the rats have moved in.'' He said there had been "a whole stack" of complaints. "The flood was in the middle of summer -- good breeding season for the rats and they've obviously taken over," he said. "It's not the rat city of the world but it's a real problem -- we're committed to ensuring it doesn't get any worse." Cr Tully said the council-deployed pest control forces would combat the problem. "Fox-terriers are excellent for detecting and chasing rats, they will move from house to house," he said. "They're bloody big rats -- imagine a ringtail or brushtail possum... these are Goodna rats born and bred. "Rats are pretty resilient I'm told they can survive a flood quite easily and can move back -- they don't have a lot of natural predators." Cr Tully said only 1 in 20 flooded homes had been reoccupied and even his own family would not be moving back to their home. "We were with a company that paid us out our insurance but we won't be going back to that very home.'' "We'll be using the money to re-buy. "My wife and children were away at the time of the flood and the emotional difficulty of going back to that very house and rebuilding it on the flood plain