Rat extermination is not as simple a process as roach or ant control is. For roaches and ants you can simply spray pesticide and they will be controlled. But it is not so in the case of rats. For rats you will need to adopt a completely diverse approach. Unlike roaches and ants, rats can smell the various dangers around them. They will use every tactic to avoid the various pesticides and sprays, to stay alive. To effectively carry out the rat extermination, you will need to use various do it yourself pest control methods.
When you decide to handle the rat control problem yourself, the first thing that you should check out is their place of residence. After locating their living area you should find their path into your home. That is how they enter your home. They can come through the roof, some holes in the basements or doors. Try to block all the incoming routes for the rats. Normally the rats look to live in a dark places where there is no noise. So you can look into your store rooms for balls of fur. Keep track of all the dark nooks in your home. Also take notice of their droppings that rats will have left on the way to their holes.
After you have discovered the rats place of residence, you next need to decide on the method of rat extermination that you will utilize. Gather the pest control items that you will be using to kill the rats. There are lots of methods to control these rodents but which method to choose will depend on where the rats are residing. You should take into consideration the accessibility of the area. If the area where the rats live is open and large then you should use a snap trap. In open areas, a snap trap is the most effective method to kill the rats. This trap will use bait to lure the rat. Bait is connected to a spring propelled lever which will close or shut down as soon as the rat eats it. In this trap, the death of the rat is immediate without putting the rat through the ignominy of staying in the trap.
Now if the rats are staying in some narrow or closed part of your home then you should make use of a glue trap. In the glue trap, there is a long strip of glue like substance covered by plastic. In the UK these glue traps are easily available at the pest control shops. The plastic gets peeled off and the trap is placed in the rat infected area. As soon the rat steps onto it, it is trapped forever inside it. In this trap the rat is not killed. But the rat can also not escape from the glue trap. There is a plastic bag tied to the glue trap and the rat will be trapped into that. You can dispose of this plastic bag. This will also help in the sense that no other animal will be able to eat the rat inside the plastic trap. By using these home remedy pest control methods of rat extermination, you can keep your home free of any sort of rodents.
