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Rats or Mice Chew The Walls Behind the Stove to Get in the House

This is a classic entry point for rats. I've seen it a million times. Rats in the kitchen? There's a very good chance that they've chewed open a hole by the power supply behind the oven. I must have a dozen photos of this phenomenon. Rodents climb up and down the walls, and they love to use the electrical wire behind the stove. They find the area where the wire goes through the wall, and they chew it wide open. Once in your kitchen, they pilfer your food and gnaw on your stuff. They spread filth and disease. In order to get rid of them, not only must you trap and remove the rats, you must seal up their entry points!


Look here. You can see that rats have chewed away the drywall behind the oven. Look at all that debris. Now they can simply climb down the wall from the attic, down the wire, and right into your kitchen.


After I trap and remove all the rats, I seal up this entry point. I use metal flashing, which rats can't chew, and bolt it into the wall. I also clean up the debris and decontaminate the area. You can't be too careful when it comes to filthy rats.


Speaking of filthy, here's another danger of having rats enter behind the stove. They sometimes crawl up inside the stove and die of electrocution. This one rat in the kitchen really stinks up the house. I have to remove the stove and the electrical panels and get that dead rat!

Do you have rats or mice or rodents in your house? It's not a simple matter to get rid of them. Go ahead and stick poison under the stove and see what happens. Gasp! Now you say you have horrible dead rat stink in your walls and attic and yet new rats have simply replaced the old ones? Heaven forfend! Maybe you should have done it the right way - seal up 100% of the entry points so that no more rats can ever get into your house, and trap and remove, with TRAPS, NOT POISON, the remaining rats. Problem solved the right way.

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