What is the best way to get rid of rats?

Thomas Shone
by Thomas Shone

What is best way to get rid of rats?

  4 answers
  • DesertRose DesertRose on Sep 10, 2019

    Rats live withing a hundred feet of a food source. First be sure you have no garbage cans they can get into etc. Also, inside, be sure to keep all food in mice/rat proof containers, the freezer, and the refrigerator. (no boxes of food in the pantry etc.) Then use rat traps and close all the holes they may have chewed to get in. Wire mesh brillo pads or any wire made scratch pads are great to stuff in the holes around pipes etc. Then put poison under your house where they will find it but where no pets can get to it. It takes diligence and a clean living area to get rid of them and to keep them gone. They will even eat spilled bird seed beneath feeders etc.

    • Marlena Seabolt Marlena Seabolt on Nov 21, 2019

      Do you have any idea what kind of POISON bcuz they have Taken over the House and they are the size of medium kitty cats..I have had to replace refrigerators and stoves an microwaves an Internet lines they have cost way more than an excellent Poison would have cost an I would Just Love to move away but I am Trying to make House payments

  • Lisa S. Lisa S. on Sep 10, 2019

    Just one bite is a great killer for mice and rats. Can be purchased on line- at least a while back. Can purchase in a store that sells farm products. Not available n regular hardware stores, due to federal law.

  • Kathy Gunter Law Kathy Gunter Law on Sep 10, 2019

    cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil will keep them away.

  • Siropav Siropav on Sep 14, 2019

    Bubblegum! Yes. Rats live underground. Find the openings to their living quarters and throw in some chopped up bubblegum. They love it but can't digest it, so it kills them. Do this every day for a month and they will be gone. Works here in Arizona!