How to get rid of rats on your own?

Most owners do not want to put up with the presence of mice in their home, so they have several effective ways to deal with them. But how to remove rats from the territory of the dwelling or from farm buildings? In general, rat control methods are not particularly different from those used to get rid of mice. But, of course, cleaning the house from larger rodents has some nuances.

Why are rats dangerous?

The presence of mice or rats in the house is usually accompanied by the fact that holes appear in bags of grain, sugar or flour, and food products left in an accessible place are then bitten or completely disappear. But the fight against rodents is important not only because of material damage. First of all, you should worry about family health, since these pests are carriers of various diseases. For example, if you tasted the cheese that the rat had already eaten, then there is a high probability of catching diphtheria, tuberculosis, skin disease, or something else. Therefore, to learn about some effective ways to destroy these pests is simply necessary.

How to free the house from large rodents?

It is quite possible to exterminate mice in a house by having a cat, while getting rid of rats with the help of this animal is not always possible. The fact is that not every cat can cope with a rat, especially if you take into account that sometimes very large individuals come across. Recently, for the extermination of these rodents, many began to use chemically prepared special preparations manufactured by industry. But it is better to use such funds only in extreme cases due to the fact that some of them are harmful to the human body. Therefore, do not rush to immediately poison annoying pests, since you can fight rats with safer folk remedies, including:

• the use of a larger mousetrap with a more powerful spring;
• rodent feeding with a mixture of flour and gypsum;
• scattering of ash under the floor of the house;
• repel pests using a plant called black root.

A reinforced mousetrap may well catch and even kill such a large rodent as a rat. These devices are made in the form of clothespins, which are fixed in the open state, putting bait inside it. Trying to grab food, the animal catches the stopper, because of which the clothespin slams, clamping the rat's body in its grip.

Tip

Before you get rid of rats with the help of a mousetrap, you immediately need to think about where in the house it is better to put it and what food will be more attractive for pests.

Sometimes mousetraps are made of a wooden block with a hole made in it, which crosses a steel spring rod. When an animal tries to crawl into the "hole" where the bait lies, it releases the spring, which was in a tense state, which presses it to the piece of wood with acceleration.

To fight these pests using a mousetrap, you need a lot of patience, while you can destroy rats using the mixture mentioned above without much emotional stress. You just need to mix a little flour with gypsum and put it all near a saucer with water. If a rat eats this “potion”, he will definitely want to drink, and this will lead to the formation of pieces of frozen gypsum in his digestive tract and, of course, to death.But such a method is fraught with the appearance of a disgusting smell over time due to decomposition of the corpse, so some prefer to use some kind of deterrent against rats or mice. For example, the ash in these animals causes irritation of the skin, and they run away from the place where it is decomposed. Also, these rodents do not tolerate the presence of black root, if its stems and seeds are spread near their habitat.

Killing Rodents with Poison

If the danger of contact with harmful substances does not scare you, then to poison mice and rats, you can use special tools sold in household chemical stores or on the market. When deciding what to choose to stop the invasion, and how to get rid of rats using factory preparations, it should be borne in mind that these chemicals may differ in the way they are used and the result of the action.
According to these criteria, such drugs can be divided into categories.

1. Long-acting ready-to-use formulations that seem to rats something tasty, but cause them oxygen deficiency, which is why they tend to run out of the house into the street, where they die in a few days.
2. Fast-acting substances mixed with food, killing the pest in a couple of minutes.
3. Powders, with the help of which rodent control is carried out by scattering in their habitats and movement with the expectation that the animal will recover by licking its paws or wool.

It is also worth mentioning electronic repellers, in which ultrasound of a certain frequency is used to influence rats, forcing them to leave the territory covered by the radius of the device. But the disadvantage is that the device has to be kept constantly on the network. If none of the above methods suits you, then, turning to the sanitary and epidemiological station for help, you can definitely stop the rat invasion.