No one wants to get rodents in your house, so how can you make sure to avoid any unwanted rodent encounters? Rodent control can involve things you can do to make your house unwelcoming to rodents, as well as use techniques that remove rodents from your house. Here are 5 effective ways to do rodent control in your home.
- Rodent-Proofing: Make sure any holes or cracks in your home are filled in. If rats cannot enter through your roof, walls, or windows then they may have a hard time making residence in your home at all.
- Staying Clean: Doing things like general cleaning, never storing trash inside or out, and being very wary of where and how you store food can prevent rodents form wanting to enter your house at all. Leaving out food can make your house a desirable place for rodents to get their next meal.
- Rodent Traps: Rodent traps can be used as both passive and active rodent control. You can have traps out in specific places all year round to deter rats or go on the offensive and place a lot of traps strategically to deal with a current rodent infestation.
- Predators: Something like a cat o barn owl can serve the same purpose as a trap. Depending on where you live, you can get a natural rodent predator as a pet, and they will always be on the lookout for rodents.
- Poison Bait: When rats are infesting your home with no other solution, poison bait may be an effective solution. While not the most humane solution, it could be considered. Most people will stick to traps with varying degrees of humaneness, however.
There are a ton of different ways to do rodent control in your home. Within each of these 5 solutions is an entire list of options on how to do them, so experiment to see what rodent control techniques work for you.
