Have you ever had rats get inside your home? We know what it’s like, and believe us it’s awful! Life turns upside down as you worry about what the nasty vermin might be chewing on inside your walls. Salem Oregon rat control requires a few unique tricks that we’re happy to share based on years of field experience trapping rats in homes and businesses all over Marion county.
Salem Oregon Rat Control Tips
No matter whether you live in Salem, Keizer or Independence, Oregon when a rat gets inside your home it’s enough to cause homeowners and tenants alike some real stress. Let’s go through a few tips that will help you effectively get rid of rats fast and help you avoid hurting yourself in the process.
Here are a few key questions to help you get started:
- Bait or traps?
- How to stay safe?
- How to get rats to take the bait?
Should You Use Bait Or Traps?
We know it might sound tempting to just open the crawl space door, throw a few packets of bait into the dark nasty opening and hope for the best. It’s definitely the easy option and even the method actually used by a few low-quality pest control companies.
But before you run for the crawl space opening, we just have to ask…how much will you like the smell of dead carcasses decaying inside the walls of your home? Use bait and a few days later your neighbors might think there is a dead body hidden under your house. Summer, Winter or any other time of year, using bait for Salem Oregon rat control inside homes is a really bad idea.
If you’re trying to get rid of rats from a barn, shed or another structure where decaying rodent smells is not likely to be the worst smell encountered then, by all means, break out the poison bait. Just make sure you don’t use it somewhere that pets and kids will find it.
For all other structures where nasty smells are not considered part of the experience, say “NO WAY” to poison baits. Rat traps require more skill and work but they are going to literally save the life of your nose!
Just to be clear, in MOST circumstances we suggest using rat traps instead of poison baits.
How to stay safe?
While mouse traps might not seem too intimidating, Salem Oregon rat control using high powered rat traps can be dangerous! I once accidentally caught my own finger while setting a rat trap under the sink in a restaurant–Bad Idea! I was lucky not to end up in the emergency room, and I’ve had a lot of respect for a loaded rat trap ever since.
Wear gloves. Rodents are basically disease spreading machines. Never touch rat traps, fecal matter (why would you want to anyway!) or dead rodents without gloves. Wearing gloves will also prevent human odors from contaminating rat traps. Basically glove up any time you’re messing with rat control.
Wear a respirator too. Rodent like nasty, so the places they hang out are likely to have filth and disease. Some bacteria on rat feces can actually spread lethal diseases in a moist environment. That’s basically crawlspaces and attics so using a high-quality respirator for trapping rodents is essential to your future health.
How to get rats to take the bait?
You’ve called or texted our office to get the PRO rat traps that actually work, you set them wearing gloves, but how can you convince that smart rat to actually get into the trap? This can be a tough part.
Our field techs fought with this for years. Peanut butter frequently works, bread sometimes works, cheese never works. We put our heads together, did some technical research about dietary needs for different life stages of rats and then did massive testing. Eventually, we created our Rodent Magnet Trap Bait. We’ve had people from Alaska and about every other state in the US let us know it is amazing stuff.
Rodent Magnet Trap Bait is a pet-friendly lure that drives rats and mice crazy. Rats will literally jump over stuff to get to it when the bait is placed on rat traps. It’s our field tech preferred go-to for every rat trapping job we do in Salem.
If you don’t have the right PRO grade traps and Rodent Magnet Trap Bait your efforts to catch rats will be handicapped–like a dwarf trying to play tennis.
Does All This Sound Like A Pain?
If you’re thinking I hate rats, I hate wearing respirators and I have a peanut allergy, then you’re actually like most normal people in Salem. Do you know what all of them do?
They just call us and we take care of the rats. No disease, no dead rats to scrape out of traps and no rubber gloves that keep getting holes when you try to put them on. Honestly, knowing what we know about rat trapping, even our sales team hires our techs to get the job done right.
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