This isn t really a viable rat control technique.
How do you kill rats in your attic.
If your thinking of using snap traps read the review on the best snap traps for rats.
As you can see in the above photograph i make an important point clear.
Any hole or crack more than about inch 18 mm wide will just allow more rats to come in.
These rodents will choke on the leaf thus killing them.
This is the best choice for catching rats especially in an attic space.
They can be effective and are a very humane way to kill rats since death is almost instant.
Kill rats by any means but never use poison.
All you need to do is to slice an onion place it near their holes and wait for them to enjoy the feast.
When using a snap trap to capture a rat be sure to use a larger trap labeled for rat control.
Onions are another food you can use to kill rats naturally.
If you are asking yourself the following question do i have rats in my attic and you see a live rat then the answer is yes.
The most common way rats get into attics are through damaged eaves and vent openings.
Rats can be very bold and will still sneak around even if it hears you coming.
If you don t do that you can kill rats until the cows come home but your problem will never go away.
Zapper traps give a rat an electrical shock when they enter the trap.
This is a poison that is not meant to keep rats away but it will kill them when you make the right poison.
Rats are resilient and if a natural rat repellent doesn t work you may have to go with a rat poison.
It goes without saying that if you find a live rat in your attic then you have a rat in the attic.
Though maybe not as bad as a rat infestation.
This is one of the home remedies to kill rats.
Then you have to trap and kill the rats that remain in your attic.
Rats can climb on any surface and fit in most spaces and tend to breed very quickly meaning that your handful of rats in the attic problem could soon become a widespread infestation.
Rats are fast building up an immunity to rat poison which means that dangerous substance you re sprinkling around so freely might not actually kill any of the rats off at all.
You can also find commercial rat poisons that will kill rats over a period of 3 7 days depending on the type of poison used.
It probably will have quite the impact on your cat though especially when rats eat the poison and don t die but the cat hunts catches and then devours bites chews.
Rat sized wooden or plastic traps can be one of the most effective means of capturing and killing rats and can be the least expensive.
I m going to discuss the various ways to kill rats below.
Chmander when you mention the rats returning it reminds me of an issue i was having a few years ago with a squirrel in the attic.
When i had finally gotten rid of the squirrel one thing that i forgot to do was clean the attic and remove any squirrel smells and residue.
You have to put a halt to rodent entry to be able to make a permanent solution to your problem.
