Rat Control in Crescent Hill and Clifton

Frankfort Avenue runs through both of these neighborhoods. It started as the turnpike to Lexington in the 1850s, with the railroad laid alongside it. Clifton, closer to downtown, sits on a hill on the edge of the Ohio River valley and is mostly Victorian houses from the 1860s to the 1910s. Crescent Hill runs east toward St. Matthews and is home to the Crescent Hill Reservoir.

Restaurants and shops line the avenue, the rail line runs behind it, and old houses sit on the streets on either side.

Along the avenue and the tracks

Rat calls here cluster near the avenue's restaurants and along the rail corridor, where the weeds and the ballast give rats cover. Houses on the blocks just off Frankfort with alleys and detached garages see the most. Watch the garage, the fence line and under the porch. Shops and restaurants usually go with a commercial plan.

Old Victorian houses on hills

Clifton's houses sit on sloped lots, so a lot of them have a basement that's partly above ground on one side. That side has windows and doors at grade, which rats can work on. Old brick and stone foundations, open wall cavities and big trees over the roof all play into it. A rodent in the basement can climb to the attic inside an old wall. See attic rat removal and rat proofing.

• Check basement doors and windows on the low side of the lot
• Trim limbs back from the roof
• Look for burrows along retaining walls

Around Crescent Hill and Clifton: Frankfort Avenue · Crescent Hill Reservoir · Kentucky School for the Blind · American Printing House for the Blind · Brownsboro Road · Mellwood Avenue

Also serving Old Louisville, The Highlands, Germantown, St. Matthews, Jeffersontown, Middletown, Prospect, Shively, Okolona, Pleasure Ridge Park and Valley Station.