How to catch a rat in the house

Both in private houses and in apartment buildings, rodents are very common. They settle in basements, in entrances near garbage chutes, in attics. Therefore, many urban and rural residents will be interested in deciding how to catch a rat at home.

Why rats are dangerous and how they get into an apartment

The appearance of rodents in a house or apartment is a very unpleasant event, because they not only can scare household members, especially children, but also carry a lot of infections. Rats are carriers of dangerous diseases, and in some cases rats can even attack humans. Therefore, the fight against their invasion should begin immediately as soon as the owner of the apartment or private house has discovered these pests. There are very simple ways to catch rats and mice in various traps, which are successfully used in the house.

Rats are very smart and cunning animals, so luring or catching a rat in an apartment is not easy. First of all, you need to find out what route the animals enter the room. They fall into human habitation in various ways:

• through ventilation ducts, cracks in the floor;
• through the entrance doors and windows located on the 1st floor above the basement;
• They move along risers and sewer pipes and end up in the bathroom or toilet, because they swim well and even dive.

Therefore, it is necessary to close up all the cracks and holes in the floor and other passages along which rodents can move. To do this, use a mixture of cement and finely ground glass. If rat passages are large, then they are covered with metal sheets.

Catching a rat in the house is quite difficult, because in any room there is a lot of furniture, things where animals can hide. Therefore, there are a large number of ways to help catch rats using traps or special devices.

Mechanical methods: traps and traps

One of the most reliable methods is to put a cat trained to catch rats in the house, but not every “striped” one is capable of such feats. There are dogs who like to catch them: dachshunds, York terriers or fox terriers, Italian greyhounds. However, cats and dogs are not always willing to do this.

Interesting!

One of the simplest methods that allows you to drive a rat out of the bathtub is to put a cat there for the night, by the morning he will be proud of the captured animal.

Other ways to catch rodents using various traps:

• Spring traps and mousetraps, which are usually placed along the paths of movement of animals: along baseboards, in places with food supplies. Ready-made special trapped for rats sold in hardware stores, but catching a rat is not easy. To attract it, you need a good bait.
• A trap for rats can be made from a 5-10-liter plastic container, where a little vegetable oil is poured. The bottle should first be shaken to smear the oil on the walls, you can trap the rat with a piece of sausage. Rat trap It is installed near the table, to which they make a durable bridge made of cardboard or Whatman paper.Having passed along the bridge to get the sausage, the rodent will climb into the bottle, and slippery oil and height will not allow it to crawl out. So that the rat does not turn the bottle over, it must be firmly fixed with books or tied to a table. The container itself is best selected according to the size of the rodent: in order to catch a large rat or a giant one, it is better to use a 20-liter canister.
• Similarly, you can catch a rat using a bucket with a third full of water as a trap, in the middle of which a bait is placed on a saucer to attract a pest. It is better to grease the walls of the bucket with oil, so that the animal that has fallen into the bucket glides and cannot get out.
• Another trap helps to catch a rat with glue using bait. A cardboard or tile made of plastic is taken, ALT glue is applied on it with strips of 3-4 cm, pieces of sausage can be glued between them. If you hit your paws in such a glue from rodents, the pest adheres firmly. Ready-made glue traps are also on sale, which are quite effective for small animals.
• Another home-made method is to make a trap using a string and a fishing hook, on which the skins of bacon are strung to bait. This trap is mounted near the entrance to the rat hole. The smell of fat will help to lure the rat out of the hole, then, trying to grab the bait, the rodent is "caught" on the hook. A guitar string makes a sound that signals the capture of an animal.

Important!

The question often asked by the owners of the houses: after they caught the rat, what should I do? If the rat was caught in a trap, then it has already been euthanized by its mechanism. One of the ways to kill a caught living rodent is to poison it with vinegar vapors, for which the animal is placed in any container where vinegar diluted in water is poured - as a result, carbon dioxide is released that kills it.

If there is no desire to destroy it, it is better to take it away from your place of residence and let go in the field.

Electric trap

An electric rat trap is the most modern and effective way to help trap and kill rodents. The principle of its work is that the rodent climbs into it behind the laid bait, and inside it dies from a strong electric discharge (8 thousand volts). Electro-rat trap is used to catch rats and mice, runs on batteries.

The advantages of such traps are:

• safety for pets and people, as it is closed on all sides;
• ease of use;
• the ability to install in inaccessible places due to the small size;
• the dead animal does not need to be pulled out, but simply thrown away without touching it with your hands.

What to use for bait

When using traps, bait is always used, in the manufacture of which it must be taken into account that rats love: cereals, lard, butter, meat, pastries, sausages. Products must be fresh. It is important to remember that when preparing the bait, you can not touch it with your hands so that the animal does not smell a human smell. The best rat bait is a fried bacon or piece of sausage.

How to lure a rat that escaped from a cage

Finally, recommendations to the owners, whose indoor rodent decided to go for a walk and climbed under the closet. To lure a cunning rat with persuasion or to get out of the closet without a mousetrap is possible only by affection and goodies. If it fails the first time, then after a couple of days of starvation, the rodent will go out for food itself, it remains only to lure him back into the cage as a treat.