Rats are a big problem within every household, if you found rats in your house's kitchen or shelves, the place must be messy, or dirty. as you know, a messy home will be a safe and fun place for rodents.
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Get Rid of Mouse: 6 Steps to Keep Rats and Mice Out of Your Home Permanently
Rats are a big problem within every household, knowingly or unknowingly, you welcomed them home from somewhere outside. As you know, a messy home will be a safe and fun place for rodents.
Rodents like rats and mice are dangerous, rats can spread over 35 diseases including Hantavirus, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCMV), Tularemia, Salmonella, HPS, Leptospirosis, Plague, and Typhus. The only way to get away from these diseases is to get away from rats or keep them away from home.
In this article, we are explaining 6 easy steps to keep the rats and mice away from your house forever.
Why are Rats Stepping Into Your home?
The rats certainly do not enter into a neat home or kitchen. This means if you found rats in your house kitchen or shelves, the place must be messy, sometimes dirty. Rats can sense the odor of the waste food items you leftover after cooking. Once they enter your home, they do not leave their safe house which provides free food and water.
Why Rats are Dangerous to Humans?
Rodents like rats carry many viruses with them, they can spread almost 35+ diseases to humans including Hantavirus, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCMV), Tularemia, Salmonella, HPS, Leptospirosis, Plague, and Typhus. With all these diseases, rats can also be dangerous to your home. The little intruders may damage your entire kitchen containers made of plastic, as well as the food stored in the kitchen cabins. They do not care about any of your electronic devices, they can simply blow your home into the fire by cutting the circuit wires and enjoy the fireworks. Once they started living with you, they will play some DJs in your kitchen while you go to bead. When they feel comfortable with your home it could be a tough task for them to say goodbye to you.
If you follow the these steps, you can keep the rodents such as rats and mice away from your home. Once you've invited them already, following these six simple steps could make you say bye-bye to your little guests without hurting them.
1. Seal the Holes and Gaps
Rats are more tricky than you, they can easily hide in any holes and gaps at your home, that you may not even notice. Check every nook and corner of your house including rooms, bathroom, storage rooms, shelves, and the walls both inside and outside. Thoroughly check your basements for any gaps or cracks visible, if anything is found, fill it with concrete or something solid that is not breakable for rats.
2. Cut their Food Supply
As you are their host, you were providing them free food since then. So, cut their free food and let them find it somewhere else out of your home. Cover all the food items or seal them into containers, keep them out of reach of rats. Don't leave leftover food in the kitchen and dining area, clean the places regularly. Make sure to completely cut their ration by covering the garbage bags in the kitchen and bedrooms properly, don't let the rats collect their food from garbages. Seal the drainages and fix if any leaks are found.
3. Be Cruel Enough to Destroy their Habitats
Avoid all the possible ways to stay them near the house. Remove all the unused, old products, and scraps from your property. If it is possible, store firewood out of your home otherwise, store it somewhere 1-2 meters above the floor.
4. Block their Illegal Entry
The trees and plants next to the home lead them to enter inside. Cut and trim all the branches that can create an easy pathway to the rats back and forth. You can grow some mouse repellent plants in or around your home to keep the rats and mice away.
5. Catch Them with Traps
Different types of rat traps are available in the market such as Snap Trap, Glue Trap, Live-Animal Trap, and Electronic Trap. You can simply buy any of these traps or make your DIY rat trap. There are many rat trap-making videos and descriptions are available online.
6. Kill Them Using Poison or Batis
You can also try rat poison or baits to keep them away, these poisons can be dangerous to kids and pets, keep these poisonous traps out of reach of children and pets. It is advised to use the poisonous rat traps out of the house, unless, pests may spread the poison inside your home, which can be dangerous to anyone. Alternatively, try some nonpoisonous methods to take away rats from the house.
