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Dealing With Rats In The House

Rats in the house! All you can hear is shrieks and screams from across all quarters of your home. Seeing people jump on the sofas may not be the ideal way of dealing with a rat in your house. You will find your family members, broom in hand, walking to get hold of the rats and catch hold of them. The whole scenario seems funny in a way, but it is not really funny in reality. It is scary. Having a rat can drive you to your wits end. A rat in the house means you have them going inside out your food, your clothes and probably biting into them too.

REMEDIES TO GET RID OF ANTS

This is probably why the industry of pest control is gaining popularity in the present times. You would find a lot of people going in for pest control every once a year to avoid presence of rats. But what to do when the rats have decided to attack your home? You can’t really play it off. This is where you will need that rat killing poison and other tactics to be staged so that these antics go out of your home soon. Here are some tricks to deal with rats in your house.

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Look for Cracks
Look out for possible places from where the rats have been trading in on their entry into your house. There may be some external cracks that offer space for entry for the rats. Try to seal these entry spots at the earliest. Your best bet to control the rat population from spreading into your home. Outer walls, holes in the drainage, water pipes and open doors and windows are the possible places for rat entry. Seal these spots.

Rat Traps and Baits
You can’t really make the spaces at home completely rodent proof. But you can prevent their entry by spoofing up some spaces with traps and baits where they can get caught. You should always have a trap ready where you have just found a hole in your home. This is the place where your rat would come sniffing in. You can always use nut, meat, dried fruit or bacon as bait for your rats. They will get trapped eventually.

Toxic Traps
Now that rats have become clever, having cheese placed as bait may not really help you hold on to the rat. You will see that the rat knows how to get the cheese and save itself from the trap. In case you want to get rid of the rat using a trap, you will need to use a more toxic version of the trap. There are a lot of toxic baits available in the market. Use one of them to appease the rat’s appetite and make it die eventually. You can get the toxic traps in your favorite hardware store down the corner.

Device them to Riddance
You can install some electromagnetic interference or ultrasound devices in your homes. Rats are sure to be troubled through these devices. They are the perfect baits to get rid of the rats. Of course, you should not consider using them if you have bats residing in your homes as these devices might attract them too.

Animals to Riddance
You can even get some pets to live with you in case you want to get rid of the rats. You can consider having a cat or a dog in your house, and that can help you get rid of the rats infesting your home. This is the best deal you can get.

Story first published: Saturday, May 17, 2014, 9:58 [IST]
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