Usually when trying to get rid of rats in a private house, then the first thing in the course are mousetraps (rat traps), or this or that rat poison. Someone can still remember about the trap-cells, about the glue from rodents, electric traps and ultrasonic scarers. But bad luck - often the use of these and other means in a private house does not give a visible result, or the result is minimal.

It also happens that the result is not at all happy - for example, a poisoned rat begins to gradually decompose somewhere behind a wall or under the floor, saturating almost the entire house with a carcass odor for several months.

So, to get the necessary effect when dealing with rats and mice, it is important to take into account the specifics of a private house: in most cases there is a direct connection with the street (which the owners often do not even suspect), cavities under the floor and in the walls, usually many rooms, there is a basement The attic with a large amount of insulation under the roof is almost an ideal place for rodents to live.

Secondly, it is necessary to choose the right means and methods of dealing with rats, taking into account the important nuances of their practical application (sometimes even when using an effective tool, the result is zero - for example, when the owner of the house buys an effective rat trap and puts the bait in it absolutely unattractive for rats, or even sets the rat trap in the wrong place).

Features of the fight against rats in a private house

If you approach the problem from the point of view of a professional deratizer, then getting rid of rats and mice in a private house seems to be more difficult than, for example, in an apartment or a small commercial enterprise.

There are several reasons for this:

  1. The house usually has a large area, and often the tool used in one part of it does not affect rodents living in another part or on another floor. This is especially true for devices that have a strictly defined area of ​​coverage (for example, for ultrasonic repellers);
  2. In private houses there are rooms of different types and different degrees of clutter. In the case of severe cluttering of the premises, it may be more difficult to get rid of rats;
  3. Often in homes there are many places convenient for life and movement of rats, and not all such places can be used means of dealing with rodents;
  4. People live in the house, often with children and pets, and some means of control by rats and mice can be simply dangerous for residents. For example, highly effective rat poison and traps can usually be used to kill rodents in the basement, but in the kitchen or in the bedroom, they usually will not work for security reasons;
  5. In some houses, it is generally undesirable to use poison, since rats can die in inaccessible places (for example, behind the ceiling, under the floor or in a heater on the wall of the house) and, decomposing, will produce a disgusting smell for a long time;
  6. Directly around the house often keeps a huge number of rats and mice - in the garden, in the barn, in the neighboring areas. And they will constantly strive to get into the house (especially when it is cold outside and there is little food). Therefore, by the way, once and for all to get rid of rats in the house is quite problematic - it is possible to destroy the already living pests, but their new troops will willingly try to get into the room again and again;
  7. A variety of layouts, sizes, building materials, quality of houses and, as a result, - the lack of a universal method of rodent control. What works in a small house may be ineffective in a large one.

Nevertheless, there are quite universal principles of effective control of rats and mice, applicable in private homes. Let's talk about how to put all this into practice and what specific means can be used.

How to effectively use traps for rats?

In most cases, various rat traps are most preferred for use. Many of them, when properly applied, are very effective; with their help, you can methodically destroy rats one by one until complete destruction. At the same time, rat traps are quite affordable: you can buy them in the markets, in household goods stores and in online stores.

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It is also worth bearing in mind that well-made home-made traps work no worse than industrial ones.

An important advantage of traps over poison when using in a private house:  in the case of poisoning, there is a high risk of the rodents taking the poison around the home or dacha; moreover, domestic animals may find and eat the poisoned dying rodent. When using traps, these risks are excluded. And not least, when using traps, you can be sure that the dead rat or mouse will not begin to decompose anywhere behind the wall of the house.

However, rat and mouse traps have several disadvantages that also need to be considered:


It is possible to use potentially dangerous traps (mousetraps and rat traps of the type of crush with a spring) only in those premises that children and pets do not enter - in the basement, in the storage room, in the boiler room, in the attic.

Alternatively, the trap can be placed in a closed box, in the wall of which several holes are made with a diameter of about 5 cm - exactly those into which a hungry rat squeezes, but through which none of the pets will climb.

Such boxes are called baiting stations - they are commercially available (they are usually made of plastic). They can be used in any room, but sometimes the most cautious rats do not climb in them, even if there is a very attractive bait inside (in the trap).

Life traps are more convenient in this regard - they do not pose a threat to people or pets, and they can catch rodents even in the bedroom or children's room. But they also force them to solve additional problems: how to kill the animal after they are caught on their own, or where to put it out and release it so that it does not return to the house. Not everyone can kill a living rat, but everyone does not have time to let it out a kilometer from the house.

The most popular traps for rats are divided into several types:

  1. Davilki are the most well-known dies with a spring, commonly called mousetraps, only for mice they are small, and for rats more. They are quite effective, inexpensive and durable, but when used without baited stations they are not always safe;
  2. Electric rat traps in which a rat kills an electrical discharge. The most modern models of them are able to “pack” the carcasses of the victims into a special compartment and be recharged, due to which the rat trap can kill several rats without being checked by a human. To throw them away, simply shake the contents of the compartment in the garbage bag;
  3. Glue traps that are made of cardboard or plastic with special glue from rodents applied to the surface (there are sticky traps of industrial production ready for use, or you can buy glue and make such a trap for rats and mice with your own hands). In general, we can say that glue traps are difficult to apply, cause a lot of trouble if a pet or a child gets dirty with glue and is very inhumane - the animal dies on the glue with a painful death within a few days. On the other hand, glue from rodents is good because they can catch not only rats and mice, but also domestic insect pests - cockroaches sometimes stick to it in much larger quantities than rodents;
  4. Life traps in the form of cells with a slamming door - perhaps the safest, but rather cumbersome and worse presented on sale.

If rats started in a private house for a long time and managed to breed, it sometimes takes a lot of time to fight them with the help of rat traps. It is likely that in a large house you will have to rearrange the trap several times, selecting the optimal place, or catching rodents in turn in each room. It is best to place the device where excrement and traces of animals are found, or it is known that rodents run here (for example, traces of rubbing rats with hair are visible).

On the other hand, a trap bought once will serve for years. The only consumable in it - the bait.

It should be borne in mind that the effectiveness of the use of a trap largely depends on the bait. Even the most effective trap will not work if you charge it with an unattractive bait for a rodent, and vice versa - a good bait will even lure a cautious rat into such a trap that the animal would otherwise prefer to avoid.

Practice shows that the best bait for rats is smoked sausage, minced meat with onions, lard, canned fish, and for mice - pieces of fruit, all the same lard or crust of bread dipped in vegetable oil.

On a note

In general, fat is one of the most versatile and effective baits for any rodents in the house. There is a small trick - if a little fat is set on fire with a match before being placed on the rat-trap, then even the most intelligent and cautious rats often cannot resist its smell.

Traps should be charged and put in the house as long as they catch rats. Often it happens that the rodents visually do not show themselves, but, for example, the trap steadily continues to catch them day after day. For the same reason, by the way, it is useful to just keep a charged rat trap in places where rats appear most often - if a new pest gets into the house from the street, it will immediately try to pull the bait lying in the most visible place and be caught ...

Simplify your life: homemade rat traps made from scrap materials

It is quite possible to make a rodent trap with your own hands from improvised means. This allows you to get rid of rats and mice with minimal expenditure of finances, and often homemade traps work no worse than industrial options.

For example, at home it is very easy to make a very effective live trap of a deep tank, a piece of thick wire and two or three slats. The task here is to make a tilting bridge from a wire and a single strip. A bait is placed on the edge of the bridge, it is placed on the container, and an improvised ladder is made to the whole structure, along which the animal can climb onto the edge of the container. He only needs to try to get close to the bait, as the bridge overturns and the rat falls into the tank.

It is useful to do two unobvious things in this design:

  1. Pour water into the container so that the rat can not push off from the bottom and jump out;
  2. Attach the bait to the bridge - after the rat falls into the tank, the construction will return to its original position and will be able to catch more than one rat.

There are many options for implementing such a mechanism: a rat can fall off the table, climbing into a cardboard house with a bait on the edge; or above a container (barrel, bucket), you can place a bottle rotating on a metal rod, smeared with bait, so that it turns under the weight of the animal and “drops” it into the container.

Below in the video you can see a vivid example of how such a trap works:

There are other options for simple homemade traps, which allow to get rid of rats in a private house without using any other means. Including traps can be done and lethal, so that the rat then did not have to kill in person or shake out alive.

Such traps are used in the same way as purchased ones, and their main advantages are the possibility of manufacturing at home and in most cases increased safety of use (which, however, depends on the design).

On a note

But the conditional free homemade traps for rats can hardly be considered such a significant advantage. The price of a good crush today is 70-80 rubles, and rat poison in an amount sufficient to get rid of rats in an average-sized private house costs about 50 rubles on the market. In this case, not every home owner will be ready to spend an hour or two of his time to create a homemade rat trap.

We summarize: the traps are well suited for the safe methodical extermination of rats in the house, and if used in conjunction with baiting stations, then rodents can be caught in almost any room. Traps will not work, perhaps, in cases where a large number of rats or mice need to be destroyed as quickly as possible, and all at once.

In this case, poisoning for rodents may come to the rescue.

How to get rid of rats in the house with the help of poison?

One of the main advantages of the so-called rat poison is the ability to quickly exterminate a large number of rodents with their help. After laying out in the house, such preparations work completely autonomously, and only as the animals eat the poison, its amount must be periodically replenished with new portions.

An example of how this usually works in practice: for example, if five rats live in a house and all of them eat such poisonous bait in one night, then all will die at about the same time. After a week or two, the house will already be delivered from rodents.

However, it should be borne in mind that not all rat poisons are equally effective - the most effective today drugs contain blood anticoagulants as active substances (substances that cause extensive hemorrhages to internal organs and subsequent death in rats).

Among such substances are flocumafen, brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacum and some others. Of the drugs based on them today are quite popular (not without reason) the following:

  1. Storm;
  2. Nutcracker;
  3. Rat Death # 1 and # 2;
  4. Ratindan.

And some others.

These rodent poisons are inexpensive, sold in many stores, and really make it possible to get rid of rats and mice, even in a large private house. The principle of their operation is based on the fact that after eating the poison the animal disrupts the blood coagulation mechanism and, as a result, multiple internal bleeding develops.

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Approximately on the third or fourth day after the first eating of the poisoned bait, the animal dies. The rats do not recognize the presence of poison in the bait by smell, and before receiving a lethal dose, the animal does not feel signs of poisoning - due to this, the pests do not develop vigilance towards such means, they do not avoid them and are actively poisoned.

Poisons are laid out where rodents are more likely to find them. Periodically, the presence of poison is checked, and new portions are enclosed in the place of the eaten bait.

Rat poisoning can be used only where pets, children, and anyone else besides rats and mice cannot find them. In particular, it is unacceptable to use such drugs on the street, where birds or stray animals can get poisoned. You should also take into account the danger to pets that can eat a dying or already dead poisoned rat.

In order to increase the safety of use, poison, like traps, can be used in baiting stations. However, although the poison itself pets will not find, but here to detect a poisoned rat may well be.

Summary: it makes sense to apply poison where there are a lot of rats, and at the same time finding the corpses of animals after death can be done with little effort - in stone houses and basements with sturdy good finishes, in rooms with no soft insulation in their walls. However, if there is a risk that a cat or dog will find a poisoned rodent, it is better to reject the use of poison.

What is useful to know about the use of ultrasonic repellents rats and mice

Ultrasonic rodent repellents are good because they can sometimes be used to get rid of rats in the house without killing animals and not contacting them at all. An effective repeller simply generates high-frequency sounds that create a sense of discomfort in rats, and they try to leave the house.

At the same time, the signals of the ultrasonic repellers are not audible to humans, and therefore the operation of the device at home is almost imperceptible to people (however, some may have a headache from ultrasound). But pets can clearly respond to ultrasound - often devices cause them stress and discomfort. This must be taken into account: if you want to drive the rats out of the room in which the cat or dog resides, it is better not to use an ultrasonic repeller.

A significant disadvantage of ultrasonic repellents is that they only protect the area from a strictly limited area of ​​rats and mice, they mostly allow them to get rid of rodents in the same room (ultrasound does not penetrate walls and, moreover, is actively absorbed by carpets, upholstered furniture and other interior items).

As a rule, fairly expensive devices more or less reliably protect large premises of a private house - Biostarage (about 4,500 rubles), Chiston 2 Pro (cost about 2,500 rubles), Banzai TM-315 (about 10,000 rubles). With more modest in price, scarers sometimes manage to scare away rats from small rooms, for example, from a small basement or from a garage, or from part of them, while literally through a wall rats will feel quite comfortable.

It is clear that to completely get rid of pests in a large private house in this way is unlikely to succeed, and it would be much more rational and effective to catch a trap over rodents.

It should also be borne in mind that sometimes even powerful ultrasonic repellers do not allow getting rid of rats in the house (in the basement, storage room, room). This is due to the fact that rats can get used to the ultrasound emitted by the device. It is possible to precisely check whether the device will work or not, only in practice.

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Chinese inexpensive devices in the form of small boxes, positioned today as magnetic resonance or electromagnetic, and supposedly allowing to get rid of any pests in the house (rats, mice, cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, etc.), in practice do not give a visible effect , as evidenced by numerous reviews on the Internet.

Folk remedies from rats for a private house

When rats start up somewhere in a country house and completely overwhelm the tenants, the old “grandmothers” recipes for rodent control are often used. And indeed, some of these tools sometimes give results.

For example, the poison for mice and rats from milk with alabaster can to a certain extent replace more effective and modern means based on blood anticoagulants. Alabaster (gypsum) entering the rodent's gastrointestinal tract leads to intestinal obstruction, as a result of which the animal dies. However, in practice, rats usually treat such baits with caution and avoid them.

Sometimes in private homes, rat holes plug into rags moistened with kerosene or vinegar — it is assumed that due to a strong odor this will scare the rats out of the room. Ground red pepper was also used to repel, but the effectiveness of such deterring agents is very small.

In general, we can say that it is rarely possible to completely get rid of rats in a private house with the help of folk remedies alone. But even if you try to do this, you need to take into account possible dangers.

For example, actively wetting rat holes with kerosene or denatured alcohol, do not forget that these liquids are fire hazardous, and milk with alabaster mixed in it is dangerous not only for rats, but for cats and dogs too.

Protection of the house from rodents

All of the above means and methods of getting rid of rodents, even if effective, have one common drawback - they are all temporary. Rats can be poisoned, overfished, sometimes scared away, but if once they appeared in a private house, it means they have found the way here, and most likely their fellows will come here the same way in the future.

Therefore, as soon as it was possible to get rid of the rats in the house, everything possible should be done so that in the future they will not get here anymore. To do this:

  1. Find out how pests penetrate the house. There may be many options - rats and mice can dig holes under the foundation in the basement, gnaw through insulation, make holes in wooden walls, climb through open doors or through ventilation pipes, penetrate through the sewers;

  2. Shut off the rodent penetration paths - close the ventilation with a metal grid, put a grid under the floor in the basement (if the floor is earthen), use materials that the rats do not gnaw at home (heater, for example, gnaw, so you can use claydite, foam glass, ecowool);
  3. Take measures to ensure that near the house of rats was less. It is useful to keep a cat-rat cat in the courtyard (and run it from time to time to the house), to use the same protection measures in the barn and summer kitchen as in the house, to take care of the garden and the garden, so that rodents do not feel at ease here even in summer. In such circumstances, the likelihood that the pests will pick up to the house, is significantly reduced.

Finally, in the most difficult situations, you can call the specialists of the disinfestation services for help. Their services are quite expensive (at least, if it’s really good service), but when the rats are really overpowered, and they don’t manage to get rid of them themselves, or there is no desire to do this, professionals usually solve the problem quickly enough.

If you have personal experience in dealing with rats in a private house, be sure to share your story by leaving a review at the bottom of this page.

Interesting video: we make traps for rodents from improvised means

Example of making another original rat trap

Rats are a species of rodents, which often live in close proximity to humans. They are carriers of more than 70 types of dangerous infections. infecting each other and person. It does not cost them to live in people's homes or adjacent areas, as here they can get easy access to food. If the population of rats lives in the trash bin, in the basement, in the entrance, in the barn or in the stable, then the tenants clearly hear how they stamp, squeal and even enter the apartment through the sewers. In some cases. Given that rodents breed at high speed, it becomes clear why the fight against rats at home becomes very relevant. But do not forget that dangerous animals are much smarter than mice and coping with them is not so easy, because in the centuries-old neighborhood with people, rats have learned many tricks of the house owners.

Signs of rodents in the room

To determine whether there are rats in the house, in most cases is not particularly difficult. It is only necessary to take into account the fact that rodents are secretive animals, and they appear indoors in search of food and water sources only if nothing happens in it. Rats, unlike mice, act roughly and thoroughly, so it is impossible not to notice their tricks. Among the typical signs that indicate that uninvited “guests” stay in the house, the following factors stand out:

  • the gnawed products and things on which two traces of sharp incisors are clearly visible - parallel “holes” with shallow ruts;
  • holes and gaps in the walls, floors, baseboards, furniture, as well as damaged electrical wiring;
  • regular squeaking and rustling, distributed at night, when cautious rodents go on the "hunt";
  • the presence resembling a spindle-shaped grayish shade of a handful of different sizes;
  • specific stains remaining on surfaces from contact with animal hair during their movement along the route;
  • paths, clearly visible in dusty and cluttered premises, which can lead to the hatching of rats;
  • dead animals, indicating that their colony is not far from settling down;
  • unpleasant smell in the house, reminiscent of ammonia.

These characteristic signs unmistakably indicate the presence of pests in the house. In order to get rid of them, it is necessary to choose the most reliable methods of dealing with rats and to start the measures without delay in order to avoid negative consequences. Rodents can appear in any room, even tenants of apartment buildings are not insured against the appearance of rats.

Rats use sewer systems and ventilation shafts to enter housing located at a considerable height. The appearance confirms that they can climb almost any surface of the walls. Concrete floors for pests are not a significant obstacle, as they successfully cope with this material.

Methods of rodent extermination

Finding rats in your own home, apartment, cellar or in the country, the most important thing is not to lose composure and not to panic. You need to arm yourself with the necessary knowledge and develop the right strategy that will allow rodents to fight quickly and effectively. A person knows many different methods of deratization, the most effective among them are such techniques:

  • physical or mechanical destruction;
  • chemicals;
  • scare devices;
  • folk methods.

Each of the techniques has its own advantages and is successfully used to kill rodents in the house and other rooms.

On a note!

The term deratization translated from French means the destruction of rats. The process itself involves the use of a whole range of measures that are aimed not only at extermination of rodents, but also at preventing their spread in any premises.

Physical Extermination of Rodents

In private houses or apartments in which cats live, the problem of rodents quite rarely occurs. The house animal reliably protects the home from dangerous pests, possessing the hunter's natural instinct. Feline smell scares rats, and they leave the limits of human habitation. This technique is the simplest, reliable and environmentally friendly.

Effective control of rats can be carried out using a variety of traps, as well as purchased devices. When installing the device, it must be remembered that, despite the fact that rodents like to wind up in polluted places, they are by nature very clean creatures. Therefore, when moving, they choose a clean road that runs along the walls.

It is necessary to have them in these places and preferably two pieces each, having them one opposite the other. Such placement of the rat traps is explained by the fact that, not hitting a single device, a frightened rodent can please the second trap. The advantage of traps is that they allow you to kill rats without the use of potent poison.

Among the widely used devices without poison, there are such types of them:

  • classic mouse and rat traps, equipped with a special spring-based mechanism and a device for fastening an attractive lure;
  • plastic baiting stations or homemade live traps;
  • electric rat traps;
  • the use of special.

Craftsmen, using improvised means, themselves make effective traps that are not inferior to industrial options. The result of the fight with rats depends on the quality of the bait. Personal experience and practice of using these devices, as indicated by reviews of consumers of these products, suggests that dangerous pests prefer bacon, smoked sausage, minced meat with onions, and canned fish.

On a note!

Salo is a universal bait for all types of rodents. If a piece of delicacy before burning into the rat trap is set on fire with a match, then the delicious smell will attract even the most cautious and intelligent rats.

Charged traps are recommended to be installed in the house, apartment and other rooms as long as they get rodents. You can use the device and for preventive purposes, if a new tailed beast walks into the house, it will immediately try to pull off the lure and be caught. Place traps should be in places inaccessible to children and pets.

The neighbor cat helped us to cope with the rats, who regularly visited our dacha and showed us the results of his hunt. To consolidate the effect, an electric rat trap was installed in the house itself, in which rodents caught a couple of times, but basically the “neighbor” eliminated the problem.

Olga, Kazan

Chemicals

An effective way to combat rats is to use toxic chemicals, which are presented in a large assortment in specialized stores. Preparations can be divided into 3 groups:

  • Intestinal agents acting on rodents from the inside. The composition includes poison - arsenic acid sodium.
  • Contact substances affecting the airways and burning the skin of dangerous pests.
  • Fumigation complexes that, due to toxic components, poison rats through the respiratory system.

Many chemicals must be mixed with bait and used in strict accordance with the instructions. The form of release of chemical means differs in a big variety. They can be in the form of granules, powders, briquettes, aerosols, liquids, sprays, thick masses and creams. Fighting rats in a private house or apartment can be carried out by any convenient-to-use formulations, however, children and pets living next to them should be protected from toxic chemicals.

The effectiveness of the struggle depends on the quality, therefore, it is necessary to acquire all toxic substances in specialized stores or authorized points, requiring the quality certificate from the sellers.

Especially popular in the market are the means in which blood anticoagulants are used as the active ingredient, causing extensive internal hemorrhages in animals. These include flocumafen, brodifacoum, difenacum and other reagents. They are the main component in such popular drugs as Storm, Ratindan, Nutcracker, Efa, №1 and №2, Goliath, Krysid and other toxic chemicals. Before using any poisons, it is recommended to feed the rats with regular food in the same place. This will fool cautious rodents and poison them.

Effective struggle in warehouses, industrial facilities, logistics centers and other non-residential closed objects is provided with highly toxic preparations containing hydrocyanic acid. Work with substances is carried out in personal protective equipment in order to avoid poisoning.

We have tried many tools in stock, but Storm works best. It is very easy to use - laid out the briquettes and wait for the result. Many rats we destroyed them. Good remedy.

Yevgeny, Tolyatti

Ultrasonic scarers.

Countryside property owners are often interested in how to deal with rats in a private house without the use of aggressive and dangerous substances. Safe for humans are special, which have a negative effect on the organs of hearing and the nervous system of rodents.

However, it should be borne in mind that their radius of action is limited to the area of ​​one small room. The greatest effect can be achieved in the case of a small population of rodents. The pests will leave the uncomfortable room within 2 weeks, but if the device is installed in a cellar or basement with food, the process will take a longer period of time.

When the use of chemicals is impossible due to certain objective reasons, you can use safe, but proven years of experience, folk remedies. If you need to get rid of rodents in the basement, then their holes and passages are filled with broken glass and carefully concreted, and the ventilation systems are covered with a durable metal mesh. After this, it is recommended to treat the room with a bleach solution.

Rats do not tolerate the smell of turpentine, kerosene, formalin, naphthalene, these liquids process cellars, technical rooms and other non-residential objects.

In order not to allow rodents to settle in an apartment or a house, dry fragrant herbs can be laid out in the rooms, which are absolutely safe for humans. These include:

  • pharmaceutical camomile;
  • sagebrush
  • tansy;
  • pepper and forest mint;
  • wild rosemary;
  • black root or rat race;
  • elder.

Popular methods of struggle have in their arsenal and miraculous recipes that allow you to get rid of rats without poisons. Here are some of them:

  1. Flour and gypsum are mixed in a 1: 1 ratio. Near the bait is placed a container of water.
  2. Mix the crushed wine cork with bread and fill with unrefined vegetable oil.
  3. To process wood ashes of a place of frequent stay of rats.
  4. Destructive mixture - borax, rosin and powdered sugar. All components are taken in equal proportions.

Rats live in close proximity to humans, these cause a lot of inconvenience. With the onset of cold weather, or with a significant increase in the number of rat flocks, individuals behave more arrogantly. They sneak into the house, run shy in the cellars, carry eggs in the hen house. They leave behind an unpleasant smell, the danger of infection with terrible diseases. How to get rid of rats in a private house, which is more effective - to expel or destroy?

Biological methods

The natural enemy of rodents is a cat. Animals scare even the smell of the animal. The cat fulfills its hunting instinct, chasing after rodents. Do not mind to profit from fresh meat.

If even a kitten can cope with mice, only an experienced cat can overcome a rat. A large rodent in combat with a cat is able to win. Therefore, the cat does not always agree to catch rats, and sometimes it just flees.

To use "biological weapons" from pests in the house, you need to be confident in the abilities of the cat. Choose not a purebred representative of the cat, but a semi-wild creature with strong natural instincts.

On a note!

The cat rarely binds to rats, doesn’t really chase mice. Only a cat that is not inferior to large rodents in size can be taken out of the house.

Mechanical methods

If there are rats in the house, the head is visited by the thought of using traps, traps. Mechanical methods of struggle were the first inventions that allowed to cope with rodents in the territory of their own possessions.

Modern devices for mass disposal of rats are sold in specialized stores. Can do.

In the use of mechanical methods of struggle there are pros and cons. A rat that has fallen into a trap makes shrill screams, thus frightening off the rest of the rodents. In the future, there may be several variants of events. Rats leave the premises or simply bypass the traps.

The same applies. A trapped animal becomes a warning to others. The exception is disguised traps, the existence of which rodents do not guess. A series of plastic bottles under the steps, with a cut off neck, smeared with vegetable oil is a good protection against rats. Rodents fall into the bottle, can not get out of it.

Mechanical methods of struggle include making loops for rodents. They are made of nylon cord, flexible wire. Tighten the loop, placed in places where rats were seen, against their movement. Rodents often move along the walls in the dark part of the room. Head fall into the loop. Trying to move forward, show effort. The loop is tightened.

On a note!

A rat is caught and a towel, if you have time and desire. Quietly waiting in a dark place, with the appearance of the animal, dramatically throw a towel. There are several disadvantages to this method - you need to spend time, be able to respond quickly. The smell of a person is present in the room, a rat can smell it, not get out of the mink.

Gel traps

Common products for mechanical trapping of rodents are traps from a sticky gel base. Within 14 days does not lose its properties, instantly fixes everything that gets into it. One touch of the foot is enough to keep the rat firmly stuck to the trap.

Ways of extermination of rats are impressive variety, gel trap among them is one of the first places in terms of efficiency. There are several advantages:

  • you can catch a whole brood of rats;
  • does not contain toxic substances;
  • used in any room.

Glue is applied to cardboard, plywood, plastic. Fixed to the floor with screws, nails. The size of the trap should be within 50 * 50 cm. The glue is applied with a solid line with 3-5 cm indents between the rows. The glue strip should be 5 cm wide.

Check it is necessary every day. Throw away the trap, make a new one, or get rid of sticking pests, update the layer of glue. Lime rats in this way can be a few weeks. To lure the trap, in the center is placed fragrant bait.

Interesting!

The smell of smoked meat, fish, meat, fried bacon, chips, cheese, seeds attracts rats. Less large rodents react to flour, groats, grain, sweet foods.

Ultrasonic Repeller

A modern invention that works on the basis of ultrasound. The human ear does not feel vibration, so the device does not affect the state of health, does not affect health. The device works from a city network of electric current or on batteries. To rodents do not get used to the ultrasound, it is possible to periodically change the frequency.

The area of ​​action depends on the power of the device. Muffle the background carpets, furniture. It is recommended to place the repeller in each room so that a negative background is present throughout the house. Devices are recommended to be installed for 1 month, then you should take a break.

Ultrasonic repeller acts on the nervous system. It is able to get rid of rats in 3-4 weeks. The animal feels constant discomfort. The only way to get rid of a bad state of health for a rodent is to escape.

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It is recommended to use in parallel with other methods of struggle. There is no exact information about the effect of ultrasound on pets. If the house has a hamster, guinea pig, decorative white rat, the use of the device must be abandoned.

Chemical methods

Bring out rats and mice can be poisonous substances. The specialty store offers a rich selection of drugs with a toxic effect. It is surprising a large variety of forms with different exposure intervals.

To eliminate the rats in the house will take 2 weeks. Immediately before applying the poison, it is necessary to understand the features of its action. To destroy rats at home can be drugs based on anticoagulants. Preparations are allowed to use in a dwelling house on condition of exact observance of the application instruction.

It prevents the production of vitamin K, which is necessary for normal blood clotting. When a toxic substance enters the liver, the pathological process starts. not excreted by the kidneys. Constantly accumulates tissues. The action begins immediately, but the effect is felt after some time.

Rodents willingly eat the bait, because it adds flavors, food additives. Poison rats can be for 1 day. The speed of action depends on the dose of poison that entered the body. For the death of an adult individual, about 6 g of a toxic substance is needed. With the accumulation of the desired concentration in the liver, internal bleeding opens.

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Mummifying agents have been added to the composition of modern toxic drugs. After the death of the animal, the body does not decompose, does not emit an unpleasant smell of rotting, dries slowly. The drugs are not addictive. A poison that has entered the body only 1 time leads to inevitable death, but with a slight delay.

The most popular products are:

  • Goliath;
  • Storm;
  • Mortorat;
  • Nutcracker.

In addition to anticoagulants, there are drugs that can kill a rat much faster. They include components that cause severe toxicosis. Bring rats succeed for 1 day. Such a means is Krysid. In a residential private house, it is recommended to breed rodents Krysid in special cases. It can be used in a village house if it acts as a summer house.

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The ratsid can effectively get rid of the entire family of rodents in the house. But it should be used only once a month. During work, adhere to certain rules, because the drug is dangerous for residents of the house, others. To bury the dead bodies of rodents into the ground to a depth of at least 0.5 m.

Folk recipes

You can always get rid of rats folk remedies. Rodent control combines the use of mechanical methods, chemicals. Traditional recipes can be exterminated rats or expel.

DIY trap

At the sight of a rodent in the house, you should not run headlong into the store for a trap for the extermination of pests. You can quickly build a structure yourself, without much financial expenditure.

  • In a plastic bottle with a capacity of 5-10 liters cut off the neck. Turn, insert into the bottle. At the bottom put fragrant bait. The mouth is fixed with tape. Put the trap in an inclined position near the stairs, shelves. The rodent gets inside, cannot get back. It remains to decide how to kill the captured rat. The method is especially effective in the village for.
  • Turn over a large pot for indoor flowers. On the one hand lift, insert the plate edge. In the center lay the bait. Rodent sneaks to food, clings to the plate, is trapped. It is necessary to install the structure on a solid basis in a dwelling - a floor, a concrete surface to avoid detonation.
  • With rats in a private house you can fight with a bucket of water. Pour, without reaching to the edges by 5-10 cm. Spread husks, straw, dry leaves in a thick layer on the water. In the center throw the grain, seeds. To bucket substitute a plate. It serves as a ladder. Rodent sneaks to the bait, falls into the water. It is possible to exterminate rodents without special efforts, periodically renewing the appearance of the trap. The method is good because you do not need to then kill pests.

Scare

  Elimination of rats carried out by mechanical, chemical means, using methods of scaring.
  • Output for 1 day of rodents can be wood resin. The tool is suitable for private homes, if rodents are seen in the barn, cellar, outbuildings, closet, in the sauna. Sprinkle ash on the floor. Rodents intensify their activities at night. In the dark, ash is not visible. Sticking to the body causes irritation, burning. The animal tries to get rid of contamination with the tongue, the substance enters the stomach, causes discomfort. The rat does not die of ashes, but flees.
  • Expel a rat will help a sharp smell. Moisten a rag with gasoline, kerosene, ammonia, vinegar, put in a plastic bag, make a small hole in it. The smell slowly fills the room, begins to chase the rodents.
  • Burn wool or dead rat, throw in the basement. The smell of burning makes the rodents flee wherever they look.
  • Herbs. To the rats bypass the house side, did not want to stay in it for a long time, you can use the plants. In each room, leave a bunch of wild rosemary, chamomile, wormwood, peppermint, tansy, black elderberry, ratman.
  • Essential oils. Frightens rats smell of mint, chamomile, lavender. To spread the smell around the house, you can use a special lamp or spray a few drops on a wax candle, a lamp bulb. When heated, the fragrance will spread throughout the house. The smell of people acts favorably, rats drives from the house.
  • Catch the rat. Singe tail, let go. The rodent will run to his relatives, who can not stand the smell of scorched wool. Itself will drive everyone out of the house.
  • Spicy mixture. Sprinkle on the floor hot peppers, dried chamomile, burdock seeds with prickles. Pepper, chamomile cause skin irritation, the spines cling to the coat, preventing normal movement. A few days of such inconvenience - the rats will leave the territory.

Poisoning

  • Gypsum. The most common method is a mixture of gypsum with flour, sugar. The ingredients are taken in equal proportions. A treat is laid out on plates - covers. Near put the container with water. The mixture inside the stomach hardens, along with the inside of the rodent.
  • Poisonous mixture. 15 g of borax mixed with 20 g of rosin. Add 30 g of powdered sugar to mask the taste of the poison. Spread out in places where rodents were seen. It is necessary to cook the mixture in rubber gloves so that the person’s smell does not remain on the cooked dish.
  • Soda. Mix soda with sugar in equal proportions. Add some flour. Means safe for humans, pets, rats bring death. In the stomach, the soda reacts with the natural juice, the reaction starts bubbling. Gases are collected. Since rats are not able to regurgitate, excessive gas formation, bloating leads to death.
  • Wine cork. Grind the cork, fry in lard. Fragrant bait for rats ready. In the abdomen, the cork swells, deforms the internal organs, makes breathing difficult, causes suffocation.
  • Alcohol. Moisten bread in beer, put on a plate. Mice are attracted by the smell, they eat with pleasure the bait. A few days later, beer lures are switching to vodka. First diluted with water. Every day increasing the dose of ethanol. Then soaked with pure vodka, but the taste of bitterness is masked by the addition of sugar. Alcohol addiction develops in rats. They are not interested in other food, every day they make their way to the bowl. At this stage, you can safely kill the rats, or watch as individuals degrade. Adult rats die from alcohol, the new offspring is born weak, unable to survive.
  • Autumn crocus. The plant blooms in late summer, autumn. All parts are poisonous. For a deadly bait you need 10 g of seeds. They are mixed with 200 g of any product - cheese, grain, seeds, cereals.
  • Beans, beans, cook over low heat until cracked. Drain, dry. Fry the beans with chilibuha seeds on a skillet in vegetable oil.
  • Stearin. Chilibukha seeds turn into powder, add sugar, raisins, grated stearin.
  • Quicklime. Mix with sugar in a ratio of 1: 3, so that rodents do not notice the unpleasant taste of lime. Scattered in plates, put in places where rats like to be.
  • Beer. Add alcoholic beverage in milk, leave a bowl. In the morning you can collect dead rodents.
  • Barbaric way. If you can not get rid of rats, you should use a not very humane, but extremely effective way. Catch a few rats, sit in a metal barrel. Hungering. Over time, the rats begin to gnaw each other, the strongest survives. This beast is set free. In a short time will destroy the entire family of rodents from small to large.

Folk remedies for rats affect ingenuity. They can be used if the house has small children, animals, or do not want to deal with toxic substances. If independent efforts do not give proper results, you should seek the help of specialists. Removal of rats is a process that requires special efforts, skills, and caution.

Rats very quickly breed all year round, and therefore they must be disposed of instantly, otherwise it will take a lot of effort, time and money to fight rodents. In addition, rats can reach large sizes, the adult male can be the size of a. Their sharp teeth can gnaw through not only thick partitions, but also iron.

Despite the fact that the rats willingly eat everything that comes their way, they are very shrewd rodents and instinctively feel poison. Therefore, often rodent chemicals do not have the desired effect. This is due to the fact that rats simply do not eat poisonous substances.

A curious fact: the rats in their squad always have an outcast who, in case of danger, is sent forward or forced to try food. If the food is poisoned, and the outcast will die, the rats will not touch it.

Scarers

But do not despair, because you can always overcome rodents. If you find rats at home, start with rodents that scare them away or with special rat traps. Repellers for rats are safe for humans, they send ultrasonic pulses that only the rat's ear perceives, after which the rodents leave. Traps or rat traps catch rodents and lock them inside the mechanism. Caught rodents can simply be thrown away.

Extermination of rats by folk methods

Bring rats possible and methods. Places where rodents appeared should be sprinkled with ashes. As you know, rats do not tolerate this substance and leave themselves. If this does not help, then you can use a special recipe. From gypsum and flour, taken in equal proportions, make small handfuls, and substitute a saucer with water to them. Rats, eating this mixture and feeling thirsty, will definitely want to drink. After a certain amount of time, the plaster will harden in the stomach of the rodent, and it will die.

There are plants that rats can not tolerate. These include dried chamomile, fresh burdock, tansy, as well as stalks and weeds called black root. The smells of these herbs can drive rats out of the house and the garden.

Rats are afraid of snakes. This natural standoff can be used at home, just start a hissing reptile or rent it for a week. The snake does not have to crawl all over the house, put a terrarium in the middle of the kitchen, and that will be enough.

Prevention

To prevent the appearance of rats in the house or, it is necessary to keep the home clean and tidy. Also, do not store large stocks of cereals for a long time, all perishable foods should be kept only. When detecting gaps in, they should be immediately.

Rats are amazingly clever. They are able to remember the place from which they were driven out, and return after a while.

Pay attention to the fact that the rats often come after the mice, so poison and drive out the uninvited guests, not waiting for the appearance of new ones.

If a restaurant or a canteen is located next to yours, most likely you will not be able to do without derotisers. The thing is that the rats from the food just will not leave, will require serious and systematic work to get rid of them.

How to get rid of rats in the apartment, there are many different ways, means. But the most important thing is to prevent pests from multiplying in a multi-storey building, to respond to the problem in a timely manner. It is necessary to keep track of how the rodents penetrate the room, block the entrances-exits.

Global problem

Special organizations are recognized to monitor the number of rodents in the city, to prevent their mass reproduction. For the destruction of pests they get money. When a rat is found in an apartment in a multi-storey building, it is necessary to sound the alarm, raise all neighbors, contact the appropriate authorities.

Initially, you need to conduct a survey to find out how many victims. Where to call, if at the entrance of the rat, you can find out via the Internet. Most often found in apartment buildings or Pasyuki, but there may be others. In every locality there is a hotline, call there.

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It is necessary to complain about rats in the house in SES, Rospotrebnadzor, insist on solving the problem of the house manager.

Fighting rats in an apartment is much easier if the reason for mass migration is established. Rodents live in sewers for years, they do not leave their nests beyond 10 m in the presence of food. But under certain circumstances they begin to move further, fall into the basements of apartment buildings, apartments on the first floors. Gradually rise above. Report to the relevant authorities is necessary.

Signs of large rodents


  How to understand that in the apartment of a rat - it is necessary to pay attention to the evidence. Rodents are extremely cautious, try not to show a man in the eye. Lead nocturnal. Signs remain in the morning.
  • There is a specific unpleasant odor characteristic of the mouse family.
  • Eating food stocks. Rats absorb everything that a person eats. Can drag off meat, bacon, biscuits, sausage, salad, bread. Any product not hidden in the refrigerator, bread box.
  • The presence of excrement in the form of small black peas.
  • Damage to property. In rats, chisels grow daily. To prevent their excessive increase in size, animals are forced to constantly grind their teeth on hard objects. Wooden products, plastic, leather, rubber can suffer.
  • The presence of rustling at night. Rats settle in the apartment under the floor, in the walls, on the ceiling, if there is a layer of insulation. You can hear the animals nibbling hard objects, running, squeaking.

A clear sign that the rats in the apartment are holes in the wall.

Thorough measures

Rodent control in the apartment should be at the level of the whole house. It is necessary to collect the signatures of the residents, write a complaint to the appropriate authorities. Experts must respond to a request for the destruction of rodents, in the basement, entrance.

The next step should be to prevent entry to the house. In new buildings, where the floor, the walls are concrete, the only penetration option is sewage. It remains to put the lid on the toilet with a substantial weight, and not light plastic. Then the rat will not be able to raise it, to get further into the room.

In the old house it is necessary, if possible, to strengthen the space from the floor at a distance of 20 cm. Rats gnaw everything except for materials that are much higher in hardness than teeth. It can not be concrete, iron construction, metal mesh.

Exile


  To get the rats out of the apartment of a five-story building, it’s not at all necessary to chase them to kill them. It is necessary to create unfavorable conditions for them, the pests will leave voluntarily. To help people come different: substances, plants, essential oils with a persistent odor.
  • Rats have an extraordinary sense of smell. But smells are felt by animals only at close range. If the rat is under the floor, through the cracks he will calmly hear the aroma of the plant, which is left in the corners of the room.
  • How to get rid of rats in an apartment on the first floor - just like in all subsequent ones. Using folk remedies, professional.
  • If a rat ran into the apartment, did not have time to finally settle, you can drive it out with the smell of bleach or vinegar. The pest prefers premises closer to food and water. It stops in the bathroom, toilet, dark corridor, toilet. In these rooms it is necessary to wash the floor in the evening with the addition of a chlorine-based detergent, or to add concentrated vinegar.
  • To get rid of rodents will help essential oils. The rats are repelled by the scent of lavender, mint, citrus, lemon balm, chamomile. Drip on a candle, lit in the evening. The aroma penetrates into any gap, remains in the room for a long time. In the absence of a candle, you can drop a night light on a light bulb, add to the water for mopping.
  • Expel rat can with ammonia. If you put the soaked rag near the hole, leave the poured agent in the lid.
  • In the corners of the room lay out bundles of peppermint plants, chamomile pharmacy, lemon balm, lavender, tansy, wormwood. Care must be taken to ensure that the smell of the last two plants is not concentrated. Since the rich aroma of tansy, wormwood causes a person to dizziness, nausea, vomiting.
  • Independently at home you can drive out large rodents with the smell of scorched wool. Old woolen socks, a scarf, a ball of thread are set on fire. They are shoved into a hole, left on the floor along the walls.

If there are rats in the apartment, experts recommend using it. The device should work continuously for a month. Ultrasound acts on the nervous system of animals, forcing them to leave the premises. The effectiveness of the devices is questionable, whether to use a repeller or not, the decision is individual.

Fight not for life

At home, apply modern traps on the basis of glue, poisonous bait, cook yourself.

Traps

Fighting rats with glue traps is very popular. Especially if the apartment is not residential. The tool is made in the form of glue, sold in a tube. Does not dry for 2 weeks, fixes the legs of the animal tightly at the first touch.

  1. Glue is applied to plywood, oilcloth, a piece of plastic, firmly fixed on the floor. For fishing rats need a piece of 50 * 50 cm.
  2. Spread the glue in a continuous line at a distance of 5 cm.
  3. In the center place the bait. The rat hears the smell of food, sneaks to it, sticks with its paws to. The more trying to get out of the trap, the more it turns out to be.

The advantages of a trap are that several individuals can be caught at once. The disadvantage is that animals die in agonizing starvation, making terrible sounds. Rid yourself of the unpleasant spectacle will not work. Caught rodents are thrown together with a trap in the trash cans.

Poison do it yourself

The destruction of rats is carried out safe for humans, domestic animals, poison. Leave treats at night along the walls.

  • Mix in equal proportions flour with gypsum. Close to put a saucer with water. In the stomach, the agent hardens with the viscera. Death is inevitable. It is possible to gradually, safely for yourself, poison the rodents for a month.
  • Crushed wine cork, fried in fat. Lay out treats. In the esophagus, cork powder swells, causes deformation of the internal organs, death. An effective method for eliminating pests in a few weeks.
  • Add sugar, baking soda to flour. The tool causes increased flatulence. Rats are not able to regurgitate, therefore, such a harmless remedy, like baking soda, is deadly for them. Poison can for 1 time.

Interesting!

Rats are not indifferent to alcohol. Moisten a piece of bread in the beer, treat rodents. So do every day, over time, increasing the degree of alcoholic beverages. After 2 weeks, the rats are not interested in anything more than alcohol. The population is degrading. Cubs are born weak or dead, adults die from alcoholism.

Professional tools

In the five-story building rats can spread for several months throughout the house. Pregnancy in rodents lasts about 24 days, in each litter 9-10 cubs. grow rapidly and become adult sexually mature individuals. Experts are obliged to poison rats in an apartment building. If government bodies do not react, it is necessary to take the initiative in their own hands, to engage private firms. In Moscow, the cost of disinfestation is about 4 thousand rubles. You can contact any service.

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The appearance of rats on the second floor speaks of the mass reproduction of these animals in the basement. By our own efforts, we will be able to protect our apartment from the intrusion of pests, but not completely eliminate the problem.

The apartment is allowed to use poison in the form of briquettes, processed grain. It is not recommended to use a strong poison of instant action - Krysid.

Enjoy special popularity, Storm. Means are made in the form of test mass. Meat flavors and flavorings are added. Having tried a treat once, the animal condemns itself to certain death. To kill a big rat, 1.5 g of poison is enough. Death occurs within 3 days. Mass death of rodents is observed after 2 weeks. Completely corrode the colony can be a month.