Had The Flu And Rats In Attic

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.

Had the flu and rats in attic. Once rats find an entryway into your home they ll chew through wires ducts and insulation until they find refuge in your attic. Rats will be chewing items in your loft to use as bedding. If you have had rats in your attic then you need to clean up the rat urine afterward. Now safe in your attic the rats will now grow mate and poop a lot.

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. This is one of the things that make a rat very dangerous. Never use rat poison in your attic. When you are sure that you have a rat in your attic you will need to take action very soon.

There are other symptoms too. Where they die becomes the problem. Symptoms are very similar to those of the flu and include. Rat poisons are best used outdoors and only with a rat bait station.

Norway rats are usually brown and are more commonly found in sewers and basements. Fatigue fever vomiting headaches dizziness sore throat and runny nose. 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. Rats in the attic and the bugs they bring with them are potentially very dangerous to a person or pet s health and can also cause structural or material damage to your home.

The most common way rats get into attics are through damaged eaves and vent. They are definitely the best type of trap to use on the rat runways in the attic. Health risks rats are one of the best disease carriers in the animal kingdom and were directly responsibly for the deaths of millions of people during the time of the bubonic plague. Rat poison seems like the easy solution to a rat invasion.

Only after everything is sealed should you bother to trap and remove the rats. The bubonic plague which wiped out a third of europe s population was spread by fleas transported on rats. Salmonella typhus leptospirosis and rickettsia disease are just a few diseases humans can get from rats. Both the norway rat and the roof rats infest homes however it is the roof rat that tends to make nests inside attic spaces.

The two most common species of rats in north america are the brown rat commonly referred to as the norway rat and the smaller black rat better know as the roof rat. Learn about how to clean attic of animal waste. The plague is still active in some areas of the united states and europe. The average rat will poop approximately 40 50 small round pellets per day emitting a foul smell throughout your home over time.

Though maybe not as bad as a rat infestation. A rat can die inside your walls and slowly decay leaving an intense odor for months.