Your home is supposed to be your castle, but you shouldn’t need a mote around it to keep out creatures that can do just as much damage to the outside of your home as they can do to the inside. This is especially true of animals like rats. While they may not be in your home, they can do a lot of damage to the outside, making your dream home a house of horrors.
Not only do rats tear up and chew at a lot of things, but they will also leave a lot of their droppings around. This can lead to an absolute disaster for you and your family, as rats carry a large number of diseases and parasites that can be spread to you. This will make you quite sick, and can even lead to some very serious conditions.
While you may not be as alarmed because they are outside of your home, the truth is that with enough time they will be making their way inside. They will continue to work at the walls of your home and the foundation until they have found an access point. From there, they will enter into your home and create a whole lot of issues for you. You simply have to stop this before it can become a problem.
You have to get rid of these creatures from around your home, but that can be a challenge. They usually live in large groups, so getting rid of them may be a lot easier said than done. There are some things you can most assuredly do.
Let’s eliminate the most obvious choice first – poisons. This may seem sensible. The rats eat up the poison, die and your problem is resolved. Sounds sensible, but do you want dead rats all over your property? Think about what that will attract. Plus, you cannot assure that rats are the only animals that may eat the poison. Birds, squirrels, and even your pets may eat it, and then think about the aftermath of what that will look like.
To keep rats away you want to eliminate their sources of food and their places to live. This means you want to close all garbage cans and pet food can tightly. Make sure that you rinse off any reside from garbage cans and barbecues. If they do not have sources of food they will move on. It is inevitable. Be careful to make sure that bird feeders are also not accessible to the rats and that food that falls to the ground is picked up right away.
You also want to clean out sheds, garages, and any other area that may make a good nesting spot for the rats. Under your home and places like this need to be cleaned and closed off tightly to keep them out.
Read more:
Rat Control,
Get Rats Out of the Attic,
Rat Trapping,
Rats in the Ceiling,
Rat Feces.
