[Dailydrool] Basset (and kid) friendly rodent control

[Dale Rutz]

Hi all, it's Dale here,

I've had I don't know how many people ask me to post this.  Wendie asked me for 
it privately and then she asked me to post it.  


Here's the message I sent.  This has worked not only for us but for most of our 
neighbors at this point as well.  I left out a couple of tips, those being:
 
1)  bait the traps with walnuts, works better than peanut butter and really easy 
to get on there
2)  it's a myth that there is a swarm of rodents if they are on the inside.  If 
they are in the building there will be a mating pair which protect their turf, 
and possibly young ... but only two adults.
3)  For the vents under the house what we did is buy steel loovers that go OVER 
the screen the rodents have compromised and screw on with a screw on each 
corner.  They cost 99 cents and have worked all these years.  
4)  For the attic vents (yes there are there too) I used caulk to reattach the 
screens to the frames as removing and replacing those can be difficult.  As 
stated before..... it's cheap and it's permanent and it works!
 
Good luck,
Dale



----- Forwarded Message ----


We had them when we bought the house 15 years ago.  Eliminated and gone more 
than a decade now.  They are getting in via your attic or vents.  For sure.  We 
replaced every single screen vent to the garage and crawl space.  And then we 
used a ladder to find every place the roof has different angles that meet up.  
Under the eaves we found a hole you could stick your hand through.  Filled those 
with steal wool and covered with stucco patch.  Used mechanical traps to get rid 
of the pair (they were rats) and then plugged the last hole

Btw if you don't want to do the work call exterminators until you find one that 
will guarantee to get rid of them without poison.  They are out there and they 
do cost more but the rodents won't come back that way. 

To give you an idea of cost my friend bought her house at the same time and had 
the same problem.  She spent $800 and achieved the desired result.  My husband 
and I did the work ourselves (my husband did the traps those are nasty) and we 
spent less than $50

Take your pick and good luck

Dale 
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