Rats are a filthy disease-ridden species that can destroy billions of dollars in global food stores intended for emergencies like hurricanes. Rats also cause billions in damage to private and public buildings. Rats are such a terror that cities used to have government-funded rat task forces. These task forces went away in 2008 with the recession and since then the rat population has exploded and they are invading more than restaurants. The average person is now getting rat infestations like a common event. Rats are everywhere now so it’s time to learn how to deal with them at home. There is a lot to choose from, domestic bait, traps, one-way doors and exclusion but why go with all that old junk. Why not bring rat killing into the future. After all, technology has advanced, why not pest control with it? One of the favoured devices is called a humane rat catcher. It’s an electronic device that is baited and has a motion sensor. When a rat enters the door quickly closes locking the rat inside. These are not exactly cheap and to deal with a real rat issue you will need more than one. It is also important to note that rats can smell death so you will have to clean out the traps after every use to make sure the rats don’t avoid the trap. While the device is effective it doesn’t kill the rat which is the goal of extermination so one smart person added an electrode to the mix. This made the first Rat Zap Trap. A device that kills a mouse with a strong electric current. Killing them quickly and with no mess. This is very effective and very easy to use. They can be dumped out and what’s more, is the burning smell is not the same as the death smell so you can reuse them without having to scrub the smell out. They can be baited to make them look better to the rats but visually represent the burrow they try to make outside. This can also cause them to enter it and get killed.
While a rat zapper may be effective in a small infestation it cannot deal with a full-blown infestation of rats. This means you will need to do other things to get rid of a larger infestation. You will still need to buy poison and to place it in a safe tamper-proof bait station that you can buy from home hardware. You may also want to inspect the outside of your home for possible entryways. You can do a test to see if a rat uses a hole by plugging it with newspaper. If you find the paper on the ground and torn up then a rat is using that hole as an entranceway and you should seal it up right quick. If you think there are a lot of rats in the house you can try using a rat one-way door that connects to the main opening and can be used to let rats leave as normal and then locks them out. Many of these products are used by rodent technicians.
If this all seems too difficult you can simply call a professional rodent technician who can come to your property and exclude all the rat openings and even put a one-way rat door onto one of the holes to get rats to leave and prevent them from reentering. They will bait the exterior with large weighted tamperproof bait stations containing commercial-grade rodenticide which is an anticoagulant chemical that causes the rats to die from internal bleeding and dehydration which is caused by internal bleeding. The technician can then go inside your home and set up dozens of snap traps that can kill your interior rat issue quickly while letting the rest escape outside to be killed by the poison.
