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A rat invasion is a major problem. They're ugly, dirty, and disease-ridden. You don't want these rodents in your home, because they're not welcome there. Rats also can spread illness to you, your family, and your friends.

If you want to get rid of rats, it must be done quickly and with care. These creatures chew through walls and insulation. They can cause a lot of damage to your home. The only way to get rid of them is to do it fast.

Allstate Pest Control is a company that has helped thousands of customers in the Adelaide Area eliminate their rat problems. We're going to share our top tips for rat control. Let's dive in.

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What Are Rats?

In this article, we'll talk about rats. We'll discuss where they live, how they choose their habitats, and what they eat.

Rats are medium-sized rodents that originated in Asia and Australia. They spread throughout the world and now exist in more than 60 different species.

Rats can be large or small.The biggest ones weigh up to 5 pounds and are the size of a large housecat. They can come in any color, including black, brown, gray, and white.

The only way to get rid of rats is to get rid of the three things they need to survive: food, water, and shelter.

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Food

Rats live in places where humans are living or where there is food for them. They can eat almost anything, but they especially like garbage.

Water

Rats can survive without water for a month or more. This is because rats eat enough food to get the moisture they need. When rats need to drink, they can find enough water in drains, pet dishes, or condensation on walls.

Shelter

Rats live wild in weeds and grasses. In homes, rats will take cover under furniture, behind walls, or in other dark corners of the house. Rats are also famous for building nests inside of and under appliances.

Rats Reproduce Rapidly

Female rats can mate 500 times in just six hours! And brown rats can give birth to 22 babies at once. Can you imagine?! With gestation periods of less than a month, you can see how populations grow quickly and get out of control.

As rat populations increase in your home, you'll notice droppings and other damage.

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Rats & Disease

The mere presence of rats on your property is a threat to you. These dirty rodents can carry a variety of diseases. It's been recently discovered that they transport Hepatitis E. It's also been revealed that they carry typhus, another disease.

Flea-borne typhus is a disease caused by a bacteria that lives in fleas. Flea-borne typhus spreads to humans through contact with fleas. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flea-borne typhus is a disease caused by a bacteria called Rickettsia typhi. It spreads to people through contact with infected fleas.

Fleas become infected when they bite infected animals, such as rats, cats, or opossums. When an infected flea bites a person or animal, the bite breaks the skin, causing a wound. Fleas poop when they feed. The poop (also called flea dirt) can then be rubbed into the bite wound or other wounds, causing infection. People can also breathe in infected flea dirt or rub it into their eyes.

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4 Signs Of A Rat Infestation In Your Home

If you are unsure if you have a rat infestation in your home, look for the following signs:

Strange Smells & Sounds

Rats are very loud and give off a powerful smell. They're also usually very loud and noisy in your home. These signs are subtle, but they're an indication that rodents are nearby.

Droppings & Smears

Rats leave feces behind as they move through your home. You may notice small, dark, pellet-shaped feces along rat pathways. Since rats have poor eyesight, they also create and maintain established routes along the walls.

As they travel these routes, they leave grease smears and smudges along the walls.

Footprints

Rats are often found in places you don't expect them to be. They leave copious amounts of rat droppings in places they have traveled.

Poop alert: Rats like to leave behind small turds everywhere they go. If you suspect rats are in your home, sprinkle some baking soda on the floor and check for fresh tracks in the morning.

Damage

Finally, rats can cause a lot of damage in your home. They can eat through your electrical wires, gnaw on furniture, storage containers and paper, and contaminate food left out on the counter. They leave droppings and urine throughout your home that can spread disease.

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Call A Professional Pest Management Company

If you have rats in your walls, a pest management company will get rid of them. The first step is to find the entry points where they are getting into the house. Then, they will locate their nests and food cache areas. Finally, they will get rid of the rats without damaging your home more.

If you have a rat infestation in your home, it's important to call a professional exterminator. Rats can come back if they're not gone for good. In the winter, they seek shelter and food. If there are rats outside, then an exterminator can keep them from coming in.

To prevent rats from entering your living space, you have to get rid of them fast.

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Contact A Professional Pest Management Company

Pest control services are effective inside the home. They can also help you manage rat populations outdoors. Allstate Pest Control uses eco-friendly methods to control outdoor rat populations, such as trapping and deterrents.

If you think you have rats, call us. We can help you fix it.

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The best way to get rid of rats is to eliminate the food source, which is typically garbage and garbage cans. Keeping garbage inside, clean garbage cans, and not leaving any food outside are all ways to eliminate the food source of rats and make them move on.

Pest control experts in South Australia offer many methods that can be used to get rid of rats. One easy option is to use traps, a poison bait station, or cayenne pepper. Also, you can use natural repellents to drive away the rats.

The best way to get an accurate count of the number of rats in a house is to check all the walls and furniture. This is not a fun job, it is dirty and smelly. But if it is necessary for the sake of rodent control then it must be done. The best way to check for rats is to use a black light. This will help identify urine, feces, and chew marks on the walls and furniture. Rodents will chew and gnaw at things, furniture, etc. and they will urinate and defecate on the walls and furniture. If the house has a basement the best thing to do is to check the basement while they are sleeping. 

Every house has a maximum of four rats, which would mean that households with less than four would not need to worry about rat infestation. If you see two or more rats in a room, the room may have a rat problem. To determine the number of rats in a house, you could use a bait station with a kit to show the number of rats.

There are many different baits to attract rats and once they have eaten the bait, they will die from the poison. The kit will show how many rats have eaten the bait, and will display the number on the digital screen.

Snakes are generally not poisonous and do not pose any danger to humans, but they provide a barrier to keep rats, mice and other small mammals under control. Snakes are carnivores and they can eat up to four times a day.

In order for a rat to die, they need to have eaten a lethal amount of an active ingredient in the poison. The lethal amount is dependent on the active ingredient, the amount ingested, the age and weight of the rat, and other factors. In general, a rat will die after eating between 5 and 10 grams of an active ingredient.

The symptoms of death can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 12 hours. Rats typically die after convulsing and becoming paralyzed.