How to get rid of rats?

The appearance of rats in an apartment, a house, in the country, in the garage does not bode well, because a rat is a symbol of danger, dirt and harm. Damaged things, contaminated foods, the risk of the emergence of intractable diseases, the carrier of which is an ordinary rat - that's just a small list of threats to an unsafe neighborhood. Sharp flair, animal savagery in combination with the "unsinkable" instinct of an omnivore, puts any person in front of the most difficult question: how to get rid of rats in your own home?

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Fighting rats

Despite the invention of all new and technologically advanced methods for controlling rodents, they do not act as quickly as pests are restored and multiplied. In addition, to erase growing teeth, rats can gnaw through their path even steel, from which it becomes clear that not every device will be reliable in solving the problem of how to get rid of rats in a private house.

Important! Rodents are able to tolerate up to 30 species of dangerous for human and domestic animals of various diseases. It is possible to infect them, even without contacting vectors, it is sufficient to contact damaged products and objects.

The question of the advisability of destroying rats is usually not worth it, because humane treatment of rodents is not even second to none when finding a gnawed cable, spoiling food stocks, and riot of rats under the car's hood in the garage. If suspicion of unintended and harmful rodents is present, all measures should be taken immediately to combat them. But it is necessary to conduct the struggle in a comprehensive way, using not only proven means, but also attracting employees of special services.

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How to get rid of rats in a private house?

In apartments of multi-storey houses pests appear much less often than in private houses, therefore, complete destruction of rats is much more common for owners of households.

There are a lot of ways to combat rodents. The application of this or that method is determined by many factors:

• Availability.
• Safety.
• Terms.
• Purpose of the room.
• The scale of the rat invasion.

Important! In a private house, rodents appear in the fall when the cold comes, and if the apartment can accidentally appear 1-2 rats, then in a private house - a whole family of rodents.

The ways to combat uninvited guests can be roughly divided into the following categories:

1. Folk methods.
2. Mechanical.
3. Chemical.
4. Ultrasound.
5. Pest control by special services.

Consider the listed methods of struggle, more.

Folk methods:

• Use of animals. To get rid of rats, you can use a safe, environmentally friendly way - a cat. It is better to choose a tricolor or a specially trained Pied Piper. The dog for these purposes also will approach, it is better hunting breed of a dachshund or a fox terrier. However, this method is not safe for the animals themselves: rats can bite and infect pets with various diseases.
• One of the oldest ways to get rid of rodents is using gypsum. Wheat flour and building gypsum( alibaster) must be mixed in a 1: 1 ratio. Fill the dry mixture in a container, and next place the water to drink the rodent. Such a bait will not cause suspicion, and the essence of this method is in indigestion of the stomach of the animal. The mixture will solidify in a few minutes as cement and the rodent will die.

Important! Alternatively, you can use quicklime with sugar.

• Using a wine stopper. Crumble finely the cork and fry it on an open fire in sunflower oil or fat( you can just poke on a tube of unrefined sunflower oil).Place containers with water and scatter pieces of cork. If you get into the stomach of this culinary discovery, the cork will swell and get stuck in the intestine of the rodent.

Important! Rats are very sensitive to human smell, so when making any bait for them, use plastic or wooden objects or use rubber gloves. Before you decompose the bait, feed the rodents for a few days with normal food, and then arrange the food with a "surprise".

• Use of ash. In the people, this method is called dirty. Use it mostly in the underground or cellar. Take the wood ash and finely chop. Fill the floor with a dry cleaning agent at a rate of 1 bucket per 5-10 m2.In the ash contains alkali, which can eat away the paws of rodents. Since the animals are very clean, they lick the ashes from the paws, which leads to irritation of the oral cavity, the stomach. Even if the rats do not die in this case, they will move away from your home. For a person, the ash is absolutely harmless, but there is a shortage of this method: tailed pests carry this ash throughout the house and, of course, it does not get cleaner in the room. That's why this method is dirty.
• Odor scares:
  • An effective method in the fight against rats is black-rooted. The scent of the weed, which is terrifying for rats, causes them a terrible panic, prompting them to seek a safer place to live. Scatter the stems and seeds of the blackcock in all sorts of places around the house, the garage and rodents will leave you.
  • For the repelling of rodents, formalin or kerosene is successfully used. Use liquid only for the protection of non-residential premises, that is, basements, garages, etc. Spray the corners of the cellar or basement with kerosene or formalin, and the rodents will immediately disappear.
  • If you do not like the smell of kerosene, then use a piece of old rubber. Put the rubber in a bucket and burn it on the fire using a blowtorch. Leave a bucket of burned rubber in the cellar while you are laying the food, than frighten off unwelcome guests.
  • Naphthalene. Rats, like mice, do not tolerate the smell of naphthalene. Prepare a mixture of equal parts of naphthalene and wood shavings, and scatter the product around the mink, strokes and mouse loopholes.
  • Turpentine. You can also exterminate rodents with the help of turpentine, the smell of which they do not tolerate. Dampen the rag in turpentine and put it in the hole. After a few days, repeat the procedure, and the rodents will leave you, perhaps forever.

Mechanical methods

Mechanical methods of control include:

• Ratchers.
• Traps.
• Various traps from improvised materials.

Their effectiveness has long been known, but it is difficult to imagine how many it is necessary to buy or make traps for the destruction of a million individuals. With a mass invasion, this method is ineffective. In addition, rats are very intelligent animals, they will quickly learn to bypass the traps side or simply start safely stealing bait.

Important! The disadvantage of this method is the fact that the mousetrap or rat trap should be cleaned constantly from dead rodents.

Chemical methods

This method involves the use of various poisons that are used in a mixture with the bait or are sprayed and scattered in the habitats of rodents. The use of poisons is an effective method, but unsafe. When choosing these tools, it is necessary to follow the instructions.

The most common remedy for rats are:

• "Zoocumarin".Add the product to the sunflower oil, fried with bread.
• "Goliath" - this is one of the most effective tools at the moment, which is often used by professional disinfesters. Presented in the market in containers of small sizes. After consuming the poison in rodents, oxygen starvation begins, and they look for an outlet on the street, as a consequence - leave the room. The rat that consumes the drug dies after 8-12 days.
• "Krysin" is a quick-acting drug. Great for both residential and industrial environments. Method of use: mix the ampoule with 0.5 kg of seeds. Add 3 g of sunflower oil and spread out in the places where the rodents appear. Animals die within 1-2 minutes.

Important! In addition to seeds, along with "Rat", you can mix fish, meat, cottage cheese and other food.

• "Ratid-1" - is sold in the form of pellets of 40 pcs.in one package. Suitable for getting rid of rats in any type of room.
• "Rat death" is a good way to get rid of rats in the apartment. Sold in packs of 3 g.
• "Storm" - tablets prolonged action.

Ultrasonic methods

This method does not destroy rats with the help of special devices, but forces them to leave any room. The method is very effective and safe for humans, because electromagnetic impulses do not affect people, but only rodents.

The most common devices are:

• Electronic repeller "Riddex".The device works by means of ultrasound and electromagnetic waves. Used in closed rooms with power supply. It is enough to plug the device into an outlet to activate its operation. The average range is 20 m2.The device has 2 indicators: red - indicates the presence of electromagnetic waves, green - ultrasound. The device is equipped with a night light, so that the device is easy to find at night.
• Electronic repeller "Ultarsonic Dual Pest Repeller".The device is used both for fighting rodents and insects. After the connection, the repeller starts acting with all the electric wires available in the house, creating a field in which pests can not simply be located. To lime all unsatisfied to you insects and rodents, including cockroaches, it is enough only 2 weeks. Advantages of the repeller: safety, huge range, unlimited life.
• From the Russian models "Tornado" effectively works.

Important! Buy scarpers only in special stores, where not only they will provide a quality certificate, but will also instruct you how to use this device better.

Professional deratization with the help of the sanitary-epidemiological station

If the scale of settlement by rats is too large, then no independent actions will help. It is necessary to seek help from the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station. Specialists will treat the room with special effective drugs, safe for humans, but deadly and effective for rodents.

Important! For the period of processing, the dwelling must be left to all household members, including domestic animals, and after deratization it is recommended to do general cleaning with the use of cleaning and disinfectants.

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How to get rid of rats in the country?

In order to prepare and secure the cellar, the cellar for storage of food in the cottage, we recommend:

• All available burrows are covered with glass or concrete.
• Close the intake and exhaust pipes with a fine metal mesh.
• A week before laying out the products, disinfect the room with a solution of bleach.
• Cigarette smoke with a sulfur checker: in the room, plug all the vents and cracks, set fire to the wick and close the doors tightly. The time of the smoldering of the checkers is 1 hour, and the time of the cleansing action of the smoke is 24-36 hours. After the fumigation procedure, carefully ventilate the cellar for 1-2 days to make sure that you managed to get rid of the rats in the cottage.

Important! The cellar will be cleaned after fumigation, not only from rodents, but also from fungus, mold, insects and rot.

• On the perimeter of the cottage, glass powder can be scattered to protect yourself from the appearance of not only rats, but also mice.
• If you leave the dacha for a long time, installation of ultrasonic repellers will not be superfluous.

Control of rodents also requires preventive measures. The site and the dacha should be kept clean and do not accumulate waste that attracts animals. Fight with pests in the garden, in the garden, at the dacha is necessary only by safe, proven means. It is better not to use chemistry, but to resort to mechanical methods( traps, traps), people's and modern highly effective( repellent).If you have a problem with rodents, use our tips and recommendations to solve it, the main thing is to start solving the problem immediately and act in a comprehensive manner.