Roof Rat Solutions

Once you have identified that you have roof rats you can work to eliminate rats from your property in the following ways.

Roof rat solutions.

To prevent roof rats from entering your home seal up any holes or cracks larger than a quarter. Put a few drops of peppermint essential oil over a few cotton balls and place them at different places in the house. How to control roof rats rats have behavioral traits such as aversion to new objects and sometimes having many alternatives to multiple food sources that make baiting programs sometimes ineffective. If the rats are destroying your garden plant mint in small pots to permanently repel them.

Since most roof rats invade from the outside this is where you will begin treatment. Rats get scared by the presence of owls as owls prey on them. You will use two products solutions rodent bait stations and eratication rodent bait blocks. The common lifespan of these rodents is about one year.

Rodents will sniff out the bait and return to feed on it until the poison kills them. Roof rats can enter through openings as small as a nickel so be diligent sealing cracks and crevices. Use stucco diamond mesh which is available at building material suppliers to seal holes. For that reason rose pest solutions created the pest rat program to eliminate your rat problem in the quickest and safest way possible.

Baiting baiting uses poisons also known as rodenticides to attract and kill rodents. Once you have identified roof rats as the pest in question you can get rid of them by covering holes in your walls either with caulk or with metal mesh which is harder for rats to chew through and by making sure their access to food and especially to water is limited. In dense populations these rodents will establish a social hierarchy wherein dominant males mate more than subordinate males. Scare them with owl s feathers.

Baiting is a smart choice for outdoors. Remove sources of moisture and harborage such as indoor trash cans dripping faucets and open food in pantries.