How to Use Rat Poison
Rat poison is also a very popular material that people around the world use to get rid of rats and mice. However, there are many aspects you must consider before deciding to use rat poisons as primary or supplementary rat exterminating methods. Some rat poisons do you kill the rodent faster than others. It typically takes 30mins to few hours in average to be effective. So, there is a major possibility that they can die in a space like between your walls or inside the ceiling casing an extreme challenge and a cost to takes the smelling remains out. So, if you are living in a house or an apartment, we don’t recommend using rat poisons as the primary product. If you ever decided to use it, according to our experts Dhanush and Nalaka Daundaratne, make sure not to follow the initial step of containment stage. Leaving openings from outside to home will give few of them the chance to move out before the poison is activated, in this situation them leaving the home and dying outweighs the benefit of preventing new ones coming in. So, make sure to follow this sequence of rat hunting if you are using chemicals to kill them. However, for any open infested areas like barns and outside storerooms, rat poison will be an ideal option.
If you have young children or anyone who is at risk of ingesting freely lying rat poison, it will be a great health risk. Because even though we place the poisonous materials far from reach of children, rats and mice may carry the pellets around and spread in many places before they will feel the effects of chemicals.
Using Other Traps and Methods to catch Rats
Since there are variety of traditional and new trapping devices, you have the option of interpreting several kinds with glue traps to get rid of your rat or mice problem
Preventing Rats' Infestation
Now that you are confirmed that all possible rats and mice are captured, time to close all possible openings that they can come into your living area. Remember, their bodies are very flexible and pass-through tiny spaces. So, don’t miss any small opening like the gaps around water faucets, plumbing and heating systems, any damaged areas of walls, etc. use strong materials as stuff wood, metal, polypropylene plastic, cement, concrete, etc.
NOTE: When you have rats make you clean areas that are visible or possibly being contaminated with rat droppings and urine with bleach or any other effective disinfectant to as number of diseased can be spread through their excretions. (Dhanush Madhavan and Nalaka Daundaratne - DMN Exterminators)