Eliminating Rats From Your House
Written by Alex Cha on February 4, 2010 – 9:46 am -
Rats are a big household nuisance around the world. Here are some ways through which you can get rid of the problem of rats in your residence.
You can use electronic pest control methods to rid your residence of rats. There are effective sonic rat repellents in the market that give out noises of high frequency to repel rats. These sounds are audible only to rats and thus the machines are safe for people and household pets.
Organic rat repellents can also be used for driving rats away from the house. This method uses small pellets or tablets of chemicals that emit smell of predatory creatures that eat rodents, thereby scaring them away. These can be sprinkled throughout the house, backyard, garage or at other places visited by rats.
You can also use moth balls as their strong odour can serve as a repellent for the rats and ward them off. They are highly efficacious if kept in moist and dark corners of the residence, which are likely to be inhabited by the rats.
Using mechanical traps, often called wooden snap traps, is a way of rat extermination that is still very popular. They are not only inexpensive and easy to use, but are also extremely effective if laid with the right bait. But, they have to be placed away from kids and household as they can injure them. The problem with such rat traps is that they can capture not more than one rat at one go. Yet a good thing about them is that unlike other rat repellents, they are completely non-toxic.
A glue board can also be used to trap and kill rats. They can be wooden or made of cardboard with their surface smeared with glue. You can also put baits on the board by scattering some food pieces to attract the rats. When a rat scampers across the board for the food, it gets stuck and later dies from either choking or starvation.
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