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Rats are those medium-sized, long-tailed creature that loves to resides in your house and contaminate the environment. Rats are experts in making people ill near them. Mice, rats, pups are the different types of rodents you can find responsible for damaging your house.
These tiny looking creatures can cause more than 20 types of human diseases and highly risky for the health of children. They transmit the disease through feces and urine. Spotting rodents infestation in your place is easier because they cause a lot of damage to the house and especially to the fabric material.
Therefore, it is important to take proper preventions to keep rats away from your place. And if the preventions don’t help call a rat exterminator in Northern Palm Beach. Read the blog to know how to eliminate rats.
Natural Remedies to Kill Rats in the House
We can’t always use rat poison because of the presence of kids and pets in the house. Here are simple natural remedies to get rid of cats
Peppermint -
The rats hate the smell of peppermint as much as we humans like it. Take carious cotton balls and add 2-3 drops of peppermint oil in each of them and place them in different corners of your house to kill rats. Ans keep replacing these cotton balls every time the smell of peppermint6 decreases. The smell of peppermint oil can kill rats
because as soon as the smell hits them their lungs shrink and ultimately kills them.
Moth Balls -
Mothballs are easily available and poisonous to both humans and rats. And that's why they can only be used in deserted areas such as backyard, basement, and attics. Use a generous amount to kill mice and keep your hands covered while spreading the balls.
Ammonia -
Known for its cleansing properties, ammonia can effectively eliminate rats from your place. Mix around 2 cups of ammonia in 200 ml of water and 2-3 spoons full of detergent. Pour the mixture in a bowl and keep it where you have spotted rats. The pungent smell of ammonia keeps the rat away. You can also swab some cloth in the mixture and expose the cloth in the environment.
Owl’s Feather -
A very smart preventive method to get rid of rats and mice is owl’s feather. Owl and snake are natural predators of rats and hence keeping owl’s feather near a rat hole will keep the rats away.
Black Pepper -
Sprinkling a small amount of black pepper around your place can help prevent and kill rats because the smell of black pepper is life-threatening to rats. Once they smell black pepper, their lungs react and cause them death.
Bay Leaf -
The smell of bay leaf attracts the rats and they try to feed upon them but bay leaf chokes them up because it reacts with their metabolism. Therefore, putting some bay leaf around the corners of the house and where the rats reside will help get rid of rats.
Onions -
The pungent smell of onion is intolerable to the rats and they run as soon as they smell onions. For this, cut slices of onion and keep in corners and place your spotted rats in your place to get rid of rats immediately.
Human Traps -
For those animal lovers who don’t want to kill rats then human traps are an easily available option. They are of two types - snap and sticky traps. All you need to do is to offer a bait by attaching it to the trap and the trap stuck the rats as soon as it comes near the trap. Put a tempting bait for the rat such as peanut butter or fresh cheese.
Sound -
The rats can’t tolerate high volumes, their ears start bleeding and they can die because of this. So, keep an audio box near the rat hole and play some high volume music.
Human Hair -
Human hair frightens rats and putting some human hair near the rats will frighten them and can eliminate rats from your place. And after trying all of this if you rats stills annoy you then call for a rat exterminator in Northern Palm Beach and fix an appointment as soon as possible.