One of our highly esteemed and valuable clients called last week to ask series of questions on rats. His questions include: the process of rat extermination, how to completely eliminate rat, rat prevention at home, effect of rat on human, the extent of damages rat can cause to office and home e.t.c, the reason for his curiosity was unknown to us because pest control and prevention for his apartment was carried out by us at Micky Minch cleaning service.
He gave us the contact of his friend Mr James who needs our attention on rat issue. He lives at Lekki area of Lagos, Nigeria.
Mr. James has been battling with series of issues with rats in his new apartment for 2 years plus. Rats has caused a lot of damages to electrical part of his car by eaten up some of the cables. These are cars parked outside of the apartment.
Now to inside of the apartment:his sitting room, almost all electronics cables has been damaged by rat. The kitchen is another issue entirely, food items, condiments, cabinets are all destroyed by rat. When the kitchen items are fixed and repaired, it takes less than two months for the items to get damaged again by rats.
This has been happening for a while, it is a major issues for Mr James who is desperate on rat extermination.
As our custom, we visited the apartment, carried out a detailed survey of the whole house and environs. To him, it looks impossible to end rat infestation because he had switched his heart to believe that living with rat is going to be part of his entire life. But alas, we swung into action and exterminate rat completely from the home. Mr. James could not believe it, but we did it.
We visit the apartment 3 times a year for routine pest control and rodent extermination. Mr James has recommended us to almost all his friends and family members.
WHAT IS RAT
Rat are rodents, they are large mouse with a long tail. They are fond in every ecosystem of the world. it has existed for more than seven million years with over 30 billion in population worldwide, although it is said to be difficult to get the population of rat.
Rat has over 64 species, but the most common is the house rat which is Norway and Roof Rat. Norway rat are brown or mixed dark grey, they are burrowing species.
The roof Rat nest in locations, they hardly dig burrows like Norway rat
Rat lives in homes and offices, especially the dirty corners of the apartment, dark edges. They take shelter during the day and work around at night looking for what can be eaten.
Ordinarily, rats are omnivorous animals, they are neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous, but for survival, they can eat anything. Rat feeds on grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables, human palm, cables at home and in the car e.t.c.
RAT AND MOUSE IN THE CAR
I took time out for several years to observe rat activities and their damages in vehicles. The issue caused by rat is mainly on electrical part of the car, although sometimes but not too common they can also cause mechanical issues.
As a professional rat exterminator, it is worthy to let you know that rat nesting and eating up cables in the vehicle is a war that is fought in every part of the world irrespective of your country and continent.
Vehicles parked for days unused are easily turned to hotel by rats. Rodents move around in search of what to eat, some of the items fund are brought back into the vehicle for consumption.
More often than not, it is the vehicle’s engine that rat set as abode, it also nests under the engine cover, they do not have access to inside the car's cabin. Rat eat up cables of the vehicle, pipes, forms, e.t.c
HOW TO GET RID OF RAT IN YOUR CAR /VEHICLE
This is hilarious, someone flogging rat as a way of rat extermination.
There are several ways to put an end to this menace in your vehicle, some of this method can be combined for effective result.
- Remove all possible hiding places
- Distanced from the vehicles all food items and other sources
- Use of rat repellant
- Use electronic devices
- Old traditional way- traps
- Block every opening
- Rat Poison
- Call on professional rodent exterminator.
RATS AND ITS PREVENTION AT HOME.
One of the reasons why people often look for ways to get rid of rat is the way it smells. Rats drop their faeces on almost everywhere they walk through.
Apart from the offensive smells of rats, the outburst of lassal fever recently was as a result of the infection of food items by rats,
Do you know rat feeds some time on human palms? A lady was once visited at night while sleeping without clothes
Rats find their ways into an apartment from any small opening, it may be openings under the doors, roofs, nets, pipes e.t.c, they can also eat wooden items to come into the apartment.
Rat claws allows the creature to climb walls and some slippery objects.
If their passage is not blocked on time, they move out and come back into the apartment easily, which is not healthy for living.
Also, If rats are not totally removed from home, the worst will start to happen which is, they start to reproduce and multiply in numbers in your apartment.
Rat extermination and prevention at home and offices cannot be over emphasized, the following steps will help in reduction or total elimination of it.
- Keep all food items in a sealed containers
- Use of bait
- Rat repellant can also be used at home
- Make sure outdoor bins have secure lids
- Eliminate hiding places to a barest minimum
- Clear up pet food and bird feed when not in use
- Biologically eliminate rat by using cat
- Fit brush to the bottoms of exterior doors
- Fill holes in exterior walls, roofing cavities and eave
- Fix metal grates to drains, air bricks and vents to keep them covered
- Seal any holes around pipe work with wire wool or professional sealant
- Cut bushes, trees and grass to limit nesting and shelter possibilities for mice
- Traps can be set in area that could be potential trouble spots
Take serious action against those unwanted Landlord today before they send you out of home.
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