Make sure your home is sealed before putting out poison bait so rats don’t enter the house and die.That could lead to accidental poisoning of cats and birds. Don’t attach poison bait blocks directly to tree branches.Bait stations are protected places for rats to feed that are not accessible to non-target animals. Rats have invaded your house Try to banish the rats from the rooms using different means: smoke-bomb, screw-nut, clinging-bomb, cheese bait, poison.Roof rats can be skittish about unfamiliar objects, so leave the traps in place for at least a week before moving them.Place traps away from places they can be found by pets or small children.Set traps baited with a little peanut butter in areas such as the laundry room or garden shed.Caulk cracks, screen the sewer stacks on the roof and stuff air-conditioning lines that run from outside into the attic with steel wool or copper mesh to prevent rats from entering.Check for holes in exterior walls and near water heaters, washers, dryers, dishwashers and under sinks.It is easy to cut and mold, but for rats it’s like chewing razor blades. Use stucco diamond mesh, which is available at building-material suppliers, to seal holes and vents. Roof rats can enter through openings as small as a nickel, so be diligent about sealing cracks and crevices.Roof rats like to nest in oleanders in the summer. Thin out bushes so you can see daylight through them.Roof rats nest in the skirts of old palm fronds, in piles of debris and in hollow trees.
Remove wood and brush piles. If you must store wood or lumber, keep it at least 18 inches above the ground and 12 inches from walls.Musclemen can climb down a few floors, whereas the Granny needs to be lowered to the ground. Each room in the building is denoted by a color and when two rooms of the same color are beside each other, they can be removed with a mouse click and the tenants become that much closer to being saved. Prune fruit trees so the ground under them is visible. People and rats are trapped on the roof of a building.Keep garbage containers tightly covered.Indoors, store bulk food in sealed, rat-proof containers.Store bird seed in sealed, rat-proof containers. Either stop filling them altogether or only provide the amount birds will eat in a day. Don’t leave pet food out overnight, and pick up dog feces.Pick fruit, even if it’s not ripe, and pick up any that falls to the ground. Citrus provides food and water for roof rats.The Maricopa County Vector Control website offers this advice on keeping rats in check. Since then they have been on the move, showing up in East and West Valley communities in addition to Phoenix.They are believed to have been transported here from a coastal state. They are not native to the area and were first found in the Valley in the Arcadia area in 2002.They get their name from a preference for spending most of their time at least 4 feet above the ground and can often be found in trees, shrubs and the attics of homes.Roof rats are actually black rats (though they can be other colors) and can be identified by their large ears and scaly tails that are almost always longer than their bodies.
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