When such unpleasant parasites like rats start up in a house or household, this can become a very serious problem.
After all, these animals can not only scare all household members with their appearance, but also suffer dangerous diseases.
How to protect your family and friends from these unpleasant rodents?
Let's understand what methods can quickly and efficiently get rid of rats.
A bit about rats
Rats are a symbol of danger, impurity and evil, so if these rodents appeared in your home - this does not bode well. Contaminated food, spoiled furniture and things, in addition, there is a very high risk of contracting a serious illness transmitted by an ordinary rat - and this is only an incomplete list of the “advantages” of being close to these rodents. In addition, rats are very tenacious and cunning rodents, and getting rid of them is very difficult. Rats have a constant need to erase growing teeth, so they gnaw through everything on their way, even steel.
Despite the emergence of new methods of struggle with these rodents, they still do not work as fast as the rat population. Therefore, as soon as you find the presence of rats in your home, you must immediately take all possible measures to prevent them from feeling at ease in your house and multiply in the territory of the apartment or house.
How to get rid of rats: mechanical methods
Cat
Perhaps the most famous and proven method of fighting rats (and mice) is a cat. And this is true, these pets from birth are endowed with an active nervous system and a thirst for hunting, so in order to catch mice you just need to give them the opportunity to do this. Despite the fact that they catch not so many rodents per day, the smell of a cat scares rats very much, and they run away from an apartment in which there is such a pet.
The only drawback of cats that its owners periodically encounter is their independent disposition. That is, it is almost impossible to predict what he will do at the next moment, and it is not possible to get to catch rats momentarily. However, all cats are different, and most of them do not even need to be forced, they independently scour the entire house in search of rodents or their minks. In any case, the use of a cat is the easiest, most reliable and environmentally friendly way to fight rodents.
Trap
Another fairly popular method of dealing with rats is the use of homemade traps. When installing such a device, do not forget that rats, despite the fact that they like to wind up in piles of garbage or food waste, are nevertheless clean rodents, so they will always choose the cleanest road, moving most often along walls. Consequently, homemade traps should be installed in such places.
We offer you a choice of 2 options for effective traps against rats.
1. Trap No. 1. To make the first trap, stock up on a medium-sized flower pot. It is desirable that it be clay or made of thickened plastic and there is a wooden support in which one of the ends was sharpened. The support should be placed with the pointed ends inside the pot, the bait will be strung on top. Then the pot needs to be turned upside down, and when a curious rodent climbs under it and pulls the bait, the prop will fall and the rat will be caught.
2. Trap No. 2. Take a three-liter jar and pour in it a little vegetable oil with water. The bank must be placed in a horizontal position, the bait will be placed inside. As soon as the rat is trapped, the can is flipped upright and the rodent will not be able to get out due to slippery oil.
Such traps, as well as purchased rat traps, need to be used in cottages, cellars, garages or beehives, having previously determined the exact route of their movement. Do not forget to change the bait from time to time so that the smell remains attractive enough for rats. If the rodent is trapped, clean it and put a new one.
Ultrasonic Repellers
Another effective tool that has recently gained great popularity are ultrasonic repellers. The principle of their action is the emission of electromagnetic pulses emanating from the device, which greatly affect the nervous system of rats and other rodents, and cause them to leave your home.
The big advantage is that these devices are absolutely safe for people. However, there is a drawback - rats can leave you, but settle with neighbors, and if you do not follow preventive measures, they can come back again in time.
To get rid of rodents forever, continue to use ultrasound even after the rodents disappear, and also ask your neighbors to also take measures to expel rats from the house.
How to get rid of rats: folk remedies
At the first stages of the struggle and as a preventive measure, you can use one of the folk remedies, time-tested. For example, rats cannot tolerate the smell of certain herbs, and so that these rodents bypass your house, place a small amount of the following herbs in each room:
forest or peppermint;
tansy;
rosemary;
daisies;
wormwood;
elderberry black;
rat rat.
In addition to the smell of herbs, there are many other popular ways to get rid of rodents. To protect your garden from rat invasion, take 100 g of naphthalene powder and mix it with a bucket of dry peat or sawdust. This mixture must be sprinkled around the tree trunks in the garden before the onset of winter, and with the advent of spring, trunk circles must be thoroughly cleaned.
The use of gypsum is very effective, and even a little bloodthirsty. To prepare the bait, you need to take 20 g of gypsum in the form of a powder and 50 g of ordinary flour. We mix the ingredients, add 20-25 drops of vegetable oil to give the taste of our mixture and lay out on the favorite paths of rats. The bait will quickly attract rodents, and it will be the last thing they try in their life.
You can prepare another fatal mixture for rats. We take 15 g of borax, 20 g of rosin, and for sweetness we add 20 g of powdered sugar. We mix all the components with a wooden spatula, as the smell of human hands will scare away rodents. We lay out the deadly bait near the rat dwelling and prepare to collect the victims.
How to get rid of rats: chemicals
To date, the widest assortment of rat poisons is sold in stores. These chemicals can be divided into 3 categories:
intestinal. This group of drugs affects the rat from the inside. They contain arsenic-acid sodium, which must be diluted according to the instructions and wet the bait with them (grain, bread);
contact. Affect primarily the respiratory tract, burning the skin of a rodent;
fumigants. This group belongs to toxic substances that penetrate into the body of the rat through the respiratory system and poison it.
Chemicals need to be combined with bait, for example, with fried bread, lard or sunflower oil.
When using chemicals, do not forget that they are poisonous not only for rodents, but also for humans, so be extremely careful.
Preventative measures
Do not forget that rats and other rodents are much more difficult to get rid of than to prevent their appearance, therefore be sure to follow the following simple preventive measures:
1) monitor the cleanliness of the room, clean the trash bin in time and dispose of the crumbs, as trash and sewage are very attractive to rodents;
2) also try to monitor the cleanliness of garbage chutes in the entrance so that rats do not gather near your apartment;
3) do not allow the appearance of holes in the floors and walls, peeling drywall and other holes through which rats can enter your home.
That's all the simple rules of prevention against the appearance of rats. Keep order in the house and do not leave a single loophole through which rodents could get into your apartment. If these dangerous rodents still wound up at your place, use one of the methods that suits you best.
