Towson, Maryland — A student living in the Altus apartment in Towson contacted WMAR-2 News about the ongoing rodent problem.

"This is disgusting," Ellie Dreschler said. "My roommate and I, we are not messed up. We didn't even leave food. We still found mice."

Since opening in August, Dreschler has been living in an off-campus apartment. She said that she started to notice the mice around September. The most recent discovery was in the hot water toilet in her apartment on February 18.

"We have seen signs of them," she said. "There are chewed bags and mouse shit on the kitchen counter. We just don't know where they came from."

Dreschler told WMAR that she used her own money to purchase an ultrasonic plug-in repellent.

"I put it in my bedroom and it seems to be working, but I can still hear them running around," she said.

Dreschler lives on the fourth floor of the building. She told WMAR that she heard complaints from people on the 7th floor.

Resident Eryn Frazier said: "I just hope that there is a way we can get rid of them completely instead of catching them."

Fraser said that she started noticing mice around October and that she was catching mice every week.

"There must be a better way than just catch them, we must throw them away," she said. "This is twice a week, sometimes three times."

Her friend Mallory said that she had to deal with the dead rodents herself.

"Sometimes we call, and maintenance takes a while to get here," she said. "I heard some of them screaming when trapped in a trap. Sometimes I would say,'I can't do this.'"

WMAR contacted the building’s general manager and front desk staff to request a statement on the rodent issue.

In an email, WMAR was informed that our request had been sent to a company representative.

Altus Apartments is a student dormitory building and is part of a $350 million comprehensive development project. It is managed by Gilbane Development Company and is located on Susquehanna Avenue and Towson Row.

"This is just a waiting game," Dreschler said. "I hope they take more precautions, not just'OK, there are pitfalls here. Let me know when someone gets caught.'"

"I don't think they realize how bad the situation is," Fraser said. "We paid a lot of money for these student apartments, but they just distributed traps."

Fraser pointed out more than 15 of them in her apartment. She said she refused to walk around barefoot.

"I just don't know if anyone will run past my feet," she said. "I found two in my own bedroom closet. There was absolutely no food there and no rodent attraction at all. We also saw two here, we just saw them running around in our bathroom. , In the whole apartment. This is not just the kitchen."