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Rats
Rats
will move into any structure man builds.
We have both Roof Rats and Norway Rats in America.
Roof Rats are excellent climbers and prefer to live in attics or
cabinets. They can
scale most surfaces and may access your property by climbing up brick,
stucco or wood siding. Once
on the roof, they will find any small route of entry.
This includes vents to bathrooms, gable vents, spaces around
soffits, exhaust pipe holes, spaces between facia boards and roofs and
just about any vulnerable spot. If
none exists, they will chew a hole.
Norway Rats prefer to nest in the ground.
They dig burrows around railroad ties, gardens, trees, shrubs and
against foundations. These
burrows will lead into crawl spaces and through cracks around pipes and
slabs. Once inside your
property, they prefer nest low in kitchens and bathrooms.
Both species have droppings about the size of a black or red
bean. The Norway Rat droppings have smooth round ends but the Roof
Rat dropping has pointed ends. Generally
speaking, these droppings will get larger as the rodent grows bigger.
As with mice, rats leave their droppings where they travel.
These locations will be where rodents control programs need to be
implemented.
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