Animal loving tenants at an apartment in Brooklyn are fur-ious the building’s super is forcing his cats to hunt for mice to fix the building’s raging rodent problem, residents said.
The super sticks his poor shelter cats — named Jangles and Tiger — in the basement of the Clinton Hill building and lets them roam the halls killing mice, which neighbors say is cruel and not effective, residents told The Post.
“It’s inhumane for the cats but it’s also inhumane for us. People who’ve been here for years are living in squalor,” said Lisa Mitchell, 52, a hairstylist, who lives in the building on Washington and Gates avenues.
She added, “Management runs the building in a slum lord kind of way.”
Tenants at the apartment complex have complained to the city about rodent infestation five times in less than a year, sources said.
Construction on the building has made the rat problem unbearable, residents said.
But the Super, who identified himself only as Unk, said the mouse munching felines are taking care of the problem.
“The cats are doing their job,” the super, Unk, told DNAinfo.
“I guarantee you there aren’t as many rats as there used to be…They don’t just work all day. They also hang out with me around the building.”
Residents, who also complain about roach problems, aren’t buying it.
“The cats have been here for a few months. It’s ridiculous that they think it will solve the problem,” another resident said.
Tenants now want management to use rat and mouse traps and hire more exterminators to solve the problem, residents said.