The ABCs of Rat Control. Six Steps to Success.

If you are wondering if you can get rid of rats yourself , the answer is yes . It is only important to know how, when and what to use. I will try to describe it quickly and concisely.

1. Sealing all openings and holes.

First of all, you need to seal all cracks larger than 2.5 cm, cracks around pipes, install small grilles for ventilation holes, air vents. In rare cases, people skip this point and immediately rush to poison rodents. And sometimes they succeed, but keep in mind that the root cause will remain unresolved and this will repeat itself from year to year.

2. Sanitation.

Try not to attract rats to your living environment: do not leave food outside around the house, do not leave pet food outside overnight, and keep garbage containers tightly closed.

3. Choose suitable locations for poisoning and trapping. Make the poison tempting!

Find places where there are visible signs of rat presence: feces, unpleasant odor, greasy crawling spots, gnawing marks. All poisons should be placed in special bait boxes , which provide protection from children and other animals. Rats willingly enter them in search of food. Place the boxes with one wall against the wall.

4. To apply poison.

What is the best poison for rats? Rats eat almost anything, but they are very cautious when faced with new food. If a rat feels bad after tasting a little of it, they will never touch that item again. Therefore, the poison must act slowly, meaning at least three or four days must pass before any symptoms begin to appear. Otherwise, the rats will remember what they ate and associate the food with a negative effect. We offer and recommend Broditop lozenges. It is better to apply reliable poison immediately than to scare them. Scaring them will increase the extermination time and require more complex measures. Handle poisons, bait boxes and traps with gloves - the less you leave your scent, the less suspicion you will arouse.

5. Set traps.

Rats are extremely cunning animals, very rarely caught in traps. We recommend placing traps only in places where there are many children or pets, indoors. Today we recommend these  sticky traps or traditional traps . Here's a little secret - rats can't resist sunflower oil. Soak a piece of bread in it and apply it to the trap.

If you did everything as written and bought products from a specialized pest control company, not a grocery store, and more than 2-3 months have passed since the beginning of the extermination - do not delay and contact specialists who will advise you over the phone, or call them to exterminate you on site. It is possible that you missed some fundamental cause of the infestation.