Rat trapping

Rats are neophobic which mean they are afraid of new things and that includes traps. This is a quick tip for baiting rats with snap traps. Place the snap traps out without setting the trigger. Leave it there for a few days. Now put some food on the trigger, but don't set it. When you start to notice the rat is taking the bait then re bait it and set the trap. This should help with the success in trapping a rat, it may take longer than most people want to wait, but it is a proven method.

Can Rats Come Up Through My Toilet?

RATS AND TOILETS

Rats are swimmers and good swimmers at that! Rats live in the sewer. Rats can most definitely make their way up your soil pipe and into your toilet if they so choose. There has been many a frantic call that would come into my office where the client was horrified to find a rat in their toilet bowl! This can be prevented by installing a toilet flap excluder.

Fall and Winter

We're coming to the end of the summer season (unfortunately) and we'll have to start looking forward to the cold pests. Mice and Rats come to mind when we think about cold weather pests. Roaches and stored product pests are year round and in some parts of the country we have bugs year round. The following posts will deal with these rodents and their ability to make our life crazy.