From time immemorial, man has been actively fighting rats.
These annoying and even dangerous rodents destroy crops, spoil food, carry disease.
Therefore, the question of how to get rid of rats is relevant for many.
Threats and hazards from rodents
Grown in the cellar, shed, in the garage, in the country or in the garden plot rodents - real problem.
Rats can ruin any object from products to expensive technology. In addition, they carry most dangerous diseases for humans and animals.
And you can get infected not only from contact with things on which there was a selection of rodents, but also by direct contact with them.
Rats are quite aggressive. and can bite a man who was in their way.
Rats with their sufficiently powerful teeth can even harm buildings.
They can damage electrical wiring, as a result, a fire can start, gnaw through the floors, destroy plastic products, paper, wool skin.
The main danger is their tracks on things from which a person can get tularemia, salmonella, toxoplasmosis etc.
Rats are carriers of more than a hundred viruses and infections. These infections can cause serious harm to health, even death. There are also many cases of rabies bite infestation from rats.
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Harm from rats and measures to combat them in the photo:
Preventive measures
Preventing the appearance of rodents in the house is preferable to the control of already breeding pests.
First of all it is worth doing excluding their conditions settlements near you. How to deal with rats? To prevent rodents from growing in the cellar, shed or on the site, do the following:
- Keep clean in the premises, carrying out timely waste disposal.
- Set spiky mesh and grilles on the vent holes.
- Conduct prophylactic disinfecting treatment premises.
- Store foods grain in the appropriate container.
How to scare away the pest
Do not let the rat into the house by the method of repelling. Let's find out what the rats are afraid of:
Smell
The rat does not like sharp and persistent odors. Vinegar, acetone, kerosene, tansy and other foul-smelling substances are applicable for this purpose. Only processing by them places also to the person, therefore for the period of processing the room it should be left.
Sound
Recently, the industry has offered to purchase a lot of models. ultrasonic repeller for rodents. Their feature is the use of sounds that the human ear does not perceive. In this case, the rats do not tolerate this sound and run when they hear it.
If you have rats running around the house or in a shed, then in order to get them out - periodically turn on the device indoors.
Minus appliances is that the sound it makes is valid only in open space. And does not penetrate the walls.
Therefore, to drive rodents out of the house, need to apply multiple copies in each room.
Plants
If you want to protect the garden plot from rats, you need to plant some grass on it. Efficiency for this have:
- Coriander. Planted in May on those places that are most affected by rodents. Bundles of dry grass are tied with trunks of young fruit trees.
- Ledum rosemary. It scares off rodents with its essential oils, acting even at a distance.
- Elderberry black. Its roots secrete cyanide, and rats bypass the plant side. Plant several bushes around the perimeter of the plot, and the rats will not destroy your roots.
- pharmaceutical camomile. Flowers can be planted, as well as bunches to hang in barns and outbuildings.
- Tansy. Her sweet smell is a good deterrent.
- Sagebrush. Seated around the perimeter of the garden plot. Wormwood is placed under the vine grapes at the shelter for the winter.
- Chernokoreny. It is even called the mouse spirit. Even dried plants have action.
All these plants can be planted on the site, as well as planting a house for them. The aroma of herbs is quite tolerable for humans, but the rat, with its increased flair, will avoid the placewhere it spreads.
Bundles of plants can also be laid out in rooms where, according to your assumption, rodents may appear.
These plants also can be used in the form of decoctions and oil solutions, wetting and unfolding the napkins soaked in them or spraying in the places where animals presumably live.
Effective ways to fight
If the rats did enter your home, it will be very difficult to get rid of them forever. It is necessary to immediately begin work on the destruction of rats. The following methods are used:
- Mechanical. Catching devices for rats - rat traps, glue traps, traps - are widely represented in the modern sale. They are most effective in the case of exactly known rodent movement in the room. The simplest is glue for rats.. It has an attractive smell for the animal and firmly holds it when it gets on a greased surface.
- Chemical. Modern chemical industry has a wide range of poisons for the destruction of rats. There are poisons that must be used along with the bait, and those that are already a poison bait. Pure poison is better to put on bread, bacon, sausage, because their smells are most attractive to rodents. But to the cheese, contrary to the prevailing opinion, rodents are indifferent.
- Biological. Extermination rats using a cat. However, a cat that is not always established in a house will catch annoying rodents, as many of them have lost the hunters instinct.
- Preparation of poison baits.
There are many poison recipes that can be prepared at home:
- Gypsum and cornmeal, diluted with milk until smooth. Balls roll out of the mixture and unfold under cabinets or in any habitat of rats.
- Dry potatoes, gypsum, cinnamon are mixed with water to roll the balls.
- Gypsum, alabaster in dry form are poured into the container, to attract rodents in the bait, you can bury a piece of bacon. The effect of this method is to freeze the mixture after the rat eats it.
Peanut butter can be added to the bait.
ATTENTION! Be careful with the use of poisons in areas where children and pets can be. Accidental use of them can lead to tragedy.
Deratization of premises
There are specialized organizations that professionally deal with the extermination of rodents. This method guarantees 100% rid of rats.
The process of disinfestion includes drawing up a plan for each room, calculation of the required doses by estimating the number of rodents and the technical characteristics of the room.
Company invited by you will choose the most suitable drug for the destruction of pests, prepare the room for processing, check the result.
In addition, the range of services includes preventive measures for prevent re-occurrence rodents in your premises.
How to exterminate rats in different rooms? Each specific room has its own characteristics regarding the choice of the method of dealing with rats.
Basement and cellar.
The doors of these rooms are recommended to upholstered with metal sheets. However, only access restriction in the fight will not help.
These are rather preventive measures, rather than methods of getting rid of rodents that have already settled in the room.
- Sprinkle a layer of ash in the cellar or basement, as it is an irritant to the skin and paws of rodents.
- The basement and cellar premises are an ideal place for using ultrasonic devices.
- Before putting vegetables in the cellar, it is effective to fumigate it with sulfur checker. Close all the slots, light the wick checkers and leave to smoke. The action of checkers lasts about 36 hours. Then the room must be ventilated for 2-3 days.
Garage.
The rat in the garage represents danger to the car. These omnivorous rodents can gnaw through wires, contacts, damage other parts.
The use of rodent traps is effective. To catch a rat, you need used as bait sesame or peanut butter, they can process a trapped piece of bread.
Barn.
The difficulty of killing rodents in this room is associated with the presence of other animals in it, therefore poisons or gases cannot be used for destruction.
- As in the basement, you can sprinkle ash on the floor of the barn.
- Spread out bunches of scaring plant rats.
- Electronic trap for rodents. It is equipped with six tunnels and does not allow the animal that has run into it to get out. Once in the right place trap the rat is killed by electric shock.
- Lay on the floor of the barn juniper paw. Needles of this plant are unpleasant for the paws of rats, they will avoid moving on them.
The rat is the most enduring fast-breeding animal.
Their invasion is better to warn or stop at the very beginning, otherwise they will explore the territory of your house or site, and it will be very difficult to get rid of them.
