Rats | Humane Wildlife Control – The Skunk Whisperer Way

Getting Rid Of Rats

Rats can carry disease and present a health and safety hazard to your family and pets – you do not want rats in your home. Of all the wildlife species that we handle, rats are the toughest, smartest and most frustrating, but also one of the most rewarding for us to remove. We know how to solve your rat problems.

The Problem With Trapping and Poisons

Many wildlife and pest control companies utilize trapping and poisons to exterminate rats, however there are problems with these techniques. They are often ineffective and there is much more to getting rid of rats than these methods cover.

Rats are neophobic, which means they are scared of new objects such as a rat trap, making them one of the most difficult animals to trap, followed by armadillos and skunks.

Poisoning rats is not the answer – somebody WILL lose. Rats may consume the poison, die in your walls or attic and smell so bad that you have to move into a hotel. They can also die under your deck or hot tub. What happens when your dog or cat, or the neighbor’s pet eats the poisoned rat? With poison, somebody will always lose. We have seen countless bad situations caused by rat poison and secondary poisoning.

Rats are just like skunks in that these extremely smart rodents will dig one foot down, one foot across, and one foot back up to get under a building’s foundation. They are cunning and know how to invade your home.

Rats may be smart, but we can get rid of them for good via time proven techniques. Trapping and poison are a temporary fix, but we offer lasting solutions for your rat problems. We know how to exclude rats.

Rat Control – Home Prevention and Exclusion

Prevention: Many folks think that if they get rats, they are not good housekeepers; this is not always the case. Even a “clean” home can be appealing to rats if other important prevention techniques are not employed. For instance, always pick up any rubbish lying around, close garbage can lids tight, keep brush around the house to a minimum, and keep the lawn mowed. Encourage the neighbors to do the same. These rat prevention practices can go a long way when it comes to controlling rats.

Stop feeding the wildlife. A rat must have a constant, free food source to survive in town. If you are feeding the birds, stop. If you are feeding the squirrels, stop. If you are feeding your pets outside, quit. Ask your neighbors to do the same. The bottom line – A Norway rat cannot survive in most urban environments without a constant free food source. Discontinue feeding the birds! Discontinue feeding pets outdoors!

Exclusion: Making it impossible or very difficult for rats and other wild animals to re-enter a structure is called exclusion. This is a humane, cost effective method offering lasting nuisance wildlife control results.

Elimination The Skunk Whisperer Way

We approach rat control with several important steps. First, we will be inspecting for burrows, runways, droppings, urine stains, greasy looking marks, tracks, odors, food remains and gnaw marks. Second, and most important, we will start altering your building to make certain that rats cannot get inside ever again.

If you have rats in your building, you do not have a rat problem – you have a building problem. We fix this type of problem every day. We can trap rats and other critters for you all year long, but that will not solve your problem. What good does it do to continuously trap an overabundant, automatically replenishing commodity? Our competition may attempt to impress upon you that trapping is the right thing to do… but typically all trapping does is take money from your pocket, and place it in theirs. We do not believe that is the right way to do business – we provide lasting solutions.

We can exclude all rats, including roof rats and Norway rats – forever. Rats are very smart animals. Some of the most difficult and time consuming exclusions we perform include rats. Depending on how you want to proceed depends on if you want to just take care of the current problem, or if you want to take care of it for good so that you do not have to deal with it again. Do you want it done, or done right the first time?

Rat home invasions leave behind pheromones, urine and feces. This will now make your building a magnet for additional rats to be attracted to… perhaps not today or next week, but next month or two years down the road – they will be back. We can eliminate or at least greatly reduce the wildlife attracting scents.

Trapping Rats And Using Mouse Traps

The Skunk Whisperer® does not advocate needless trapping. Our humane wildlife control methods work best with wildlife that occasionally exits the home. But, rodents are often inside your home to stay, especially if they have a plentiful food source such as your pet’s food. At such times rodent traps are often mandated. We’ve put together a comprehensive look at some of the different non-lethal live-catch rodent traps available today and how to use them effectively.