Bed bugs and Pests
Pest exterminators Dhanush Madhavan and Nalaka Daundaratne
How to get rid of Rats and Mice
If you lived in a rented property or a house, check the lease agreement and municipality laws to see if the landlord is responsible for taking care of the rat problem or bearing the costs that you might have to face. For example, in North America, in almost all states and provinces it’s the responsibility of the owners or the companies that manage the properties. As with any other pest issue, if you have a severe rat infestation that has gone completely out of control, Nalaka Daundaratne suggests considering hiring professional rat exterminator will be the best choice. However, with the right tools, dedication, and some knowledge you can do it effectively.
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Little bit about Rat Problem
Rats or rodents been interfering human lives since almost beginning of the times. They invade any environment where they can find food or shelter. Major rat infestations are found in cities where they have many houses and places like restaurant kitchens where they can easily find food. They do a significant harm in places like farms destroying and contaminating grain storages and almost all kind of foods. Further, rodents can cause several diseases like rabies, hantavirus, and salmonella virus. Some may suffer from phobias for rats and mice that can lead to severe episodes serious psychological and psychological reactions. Also, they can bring pests like ticks into your homes very commonly.
Rats are also known to be one of the smartest animals among us. They live as a pack and have a complex and a highly effective inter-communication system where they will warn any risk factor like a predator or a trap that one might got out of or where they can find food. This advance critical thinking and defense mechanisms of rodents make trapping them challenging. Another important aspect is their extreme level of flexibility of the body. They can pass through openings that are few times smaller than their size. When needed they can voluntarily displace their joints to be able to accommodate small passages. Then, some tats would even chew off they limbs to get out of traps.
One of the major concerns about a rat infestation is their high growth rate. A one pregnant rodent who enters your home can make a pack of dozens to hundreds of rats or mice within few months. So, it’s important that we identify their presence at the earliest and take necessary actions to get rid of the rodents and take preventative measures.
Increasing rodent threats in the new world
Secondary effects Covid-19 global pandemic has changed the rodent behaviors, growth rates and spreading around the world. There are many reposted increased frequent infestations in cities. Then events such as mice plague reported in regions of Australia is another example of what kind of intensive damage that rodents can to agriculture and everyday life. One of the most challenging people faced while fighting this special rat problems was limited rat trapping and controlling products in the market and the increased demand of limited number of professional exterminators. Learning proper strategies to trap rats, eliminate and preventing future rat infestations is highly important aspect in these special circumstances.
Signs of rats and mice in your home
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Like all animals they like to have an easy access to food, mice and rats will be more likely to be found in spaces like kitchens, food storages, your kitchen pantries, and many areas in farms.
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Mice live and travel around all spaces behind your walls, attics, roofs, ceilings, etc. So, their squeaking noise or sounds generated by running and impacts of contacting metal and similar materials can be a first common sign. These sounds are more prominent in the night times where there more active in finding food.
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Mice don’t have table manners! They tear off almost any food container and eat and leave a mess. Sometimes when you open a file drawer all you will find is leftovers of rat’s meal.
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Then, you will find rat dropping in their path as well as where they did the damages and are your food or what’s in the garbage. Distinct smell of their urine and feces is another indicator that you have a rodent infestation.
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Then, in most cases you will get lucky enough to see a one or more rats running around for your own eyes. This is very common if the infestation is severe in your home, apartment any place.
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Next, our experts Dhanush and Nalaka Daundaratne will explain what specific rat traps are better than the other and how to lay rat traps strategically to get rid of them once and for all from your home.