There is nothing quite as unsettling as a mouse or rat hanging out in your kitchen as you are preparing your holiday meals for family and friends.
What to do to keep these beady-eyed rodents from spoiling your holiday celebrations?
1. Prevent access by sealing all entry points. Look close, it’s amazing how they can fit into the smallest entry places. Be sure and check holes near cabinets, closets or doors leading to the outside and crawl spaces.
2. Remove open garbage containers outside (and inside) will make your home less attractive to rodents (and more attractive to your neighbors!). Keep your property free of debris.
3. Be on the lookout for rodent droppings around food, kitchen counters, inside cabinets (one of their favorite hiding places) and under sinks. Notice shredded papers or fibers around the house? This could another sign of rodents in your home as they use papers and fibers for their nesting materials.
4. Don’t feed them! When rats enter your home they are in search of food. Rats don’t only consume food as they find it, like other rodents, they take some of the food away and store it near their homes for future use. Rodents can consume up to 1/3 of their body weigh each day. Rats especially like: Grains and seeds, fruits and berries and trash!
How to Trap Rats
Snap and electronic traps work well, but be cautious if you trap a live one. However, if you trap a rat in an area of your home that can’t be retrieved, the smell of the dead rodent will persist for several weeks to months.
Every now and then you may have these occasional unwelcome pests and the do it yourself methods can work. However, if you have a whole family of rodents taking over, you really need to contact your friendly pest control professionals at PestR’ Us.
PestR’ Us has been eliminating unwelcome rats and mice in Tempe, Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler and all areas of the Valley where these beady-eyed pests take up residence and take over.