Content:
- What are the dangerous rats?
- How to free a house from large rodents?
- Destruction of rodents with poison
Most owners do not want to put up with the presence of mice in their home, so they have several effective ways to deal with them at the ready. But how to remove rats from the territory of the dwelling or from the farm buildings? In general, the methods of fighting with rats are not particularly different from those that get rid of mice. But, of course, cleaning houses from larger rodents has some nuances.
What are the dangerous rats?
The presence of mice or rats in a house is usually accompanied by holes in bags of grain, sugar or flour, and food that is left in an accessible place is then nibbled or even disappears. But the fight against rodents is important not only because of material damage. First of all, it is necessary to worry about the health of the family, as these pests are carriers of various diseases. For example, if you have tasted cheese that has already been eaten by a rat, then there is a high probability of "catching" diphtheria, tuberculosis, skin disease or something else. Therefore, it is simply necessary to learn about some effective ways to destroy these pests.
How to free a house from large rodents?
It is quite possible to exterminate mice in the house by starting a cat, while getting rid of rats with the help of this animal does not always work. The fact is that not every cat can cope with a rat, especially if you consider that sometimes there are especially large individuals. Recently, for the extermination of these rodents, many began to use chemically manufactured special preparations manufactured by industry. But it is better to use such remedies only in extreme cases due to the fact that some of them are harmful to the human body. Therefore, do not rush immediately to poison pesky pests, since it is possible to fight rats with safer folk remedies, among them:
- using a larger mousetrap and with a more powerful spring;
- feeding the rodent with a mixture of flour and gypsum;
- spreading ash under the floor of the house;
- scaring off pests with a plant called black-rooted.
The strengthened mousetrap can quite catch and even kill such a large rodent as a rat. These devices are made in the form of a clothespin, which is fixed in the open state, putting a bait inside it. Trying to grab food, the animal catches the stopper, because of which the clothespin closes, pinching the rat's body in its grip.
Advice
Before you can get rid of rats with the help of a mousetrap, you just have to think about where in the house it's best to put it and what food for pests will be more attractive.
Sometimes the mousetraps are made of a wooden block with a hole in it, which is crossed by a steel springing rod. When the animal tries to climb into the "hole" where the bait lies, it frees the spring that was in tension, which, with acceleration, presses it against the wood.
To combat these pests, using a mousetrap, you need a lot of patience, while to destroy rats with the help of the above mixture can be without much emotional stress. You just need to mix a little flour with gypsum and put it all next to a saucer with water. If a rat eats this "drug", it will necessarily want to drink, and this will lead to the formation in its digestive tract of pieces of frozen gypsum and, of course, to death. But this method is fraught with the appearance of a disgusting odor over time due to the decomposition of the corpse, so some prefer to use any deterrent against rats or mice. For example, the ash in these animals causes irritation of the skin, and they escape from the place where it is decomposed. Also, these rodents do not tolerate the presence of the blackcore, if its stems and seeds disintegrate near their habitat.
Rodent destruction with poison
If the danger of contacting harmful substances does not frighten you, then to poison mice and rats, you can use special products sold in household chemical shops or in the market. Deciding what to choose to stop the invasion, and how to get rid of rats with the help of factory preparations, it should be borne in mind that these chemicals can differ in the way they are used and the result of the action.
According to these criteria, you can divide these drugs into categories.
- Ready-to-use long-acting formulations that seem delicious to the rats, but cause them oxygen starvation, which is why they seek to run out of the house into the street, where they die in a few days.
- Fast-acting substances mixed with food, killing pests in a couple of minutes.
- Powders by which rodent control is carried out by spreading in their habitats and movements, with the expectation that the animal will be poisoned by licking paws or wool.
It is also worth mentioning electronic repellents in which ultrasound of a certain frequency is used to influence rats, forcing them to leave the territory covered by the range of the device. But the drawback is that the device has to be kept permanently on the network. If none of the above methods suits you, then, turning to the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station for help, you will be able to stop the invasion of rats.
