Fighting rodents

Our ancestors to combat rats and mice used their natural enemies - cats. But is this method effective in our time? Not all thoroughbred domestic cats boast of a well developed hunting instinct, and far from all mice and rats are so stupid to protrude from holes when a cat is walking nearby. Add here the cost of maintaining a cat or cat. There are many costs, but little efficiency.

If there are few mice or rats in the house, rodent control can help with mousetrap and various traps. They operate according to a simple principle: a bait is put in a trap or a mousetrap, the mouse goes to its smell and either activates the mechanism of a mousetrap or falls into a trap.

But if you use a mousetrap, be prepared for the fact that the dead (orhalf-dead) mouse you have to get out of there and "bury." In addition, not all mice or rats dare to approach a strange device: it is better to be hungry, but safe. And if any mouse or rat has died in this mousetrap, the probability that someone will fall into it, tends to zero: the sharp sense of smell of rodents will help them smell the scent of the dead rodent and warn about the danger.

Adhesive traps act a little differently. The mouse hurries to the smell of bait, runs into a trap and sticks to a special sticky coating. It is not poisonous, because the purpose of the coating is not to poison the rodent, but to immobilize it. Do not be afraid, you do not have to unplug the mouse: such traps are disposable, they need to be thrown together with the victim. With the help of glue traps it is good to fight with mice and small rats, large rats often manage to escape.

If rats or mice were able to breed, more effective The control of rodents with chemicals. The control of rodents by chemical methods is carried out using poison baits, pollination and gassing.

The most common struggle with rodents with the help of poisoned baits. Poisoned water or food and decomposes in those places where most often there are rodents. You can use the poisons of instant (acute) or chronic action. Instant Poisons kill the rodent almost immediately after that,how he ate the bait. Zinc phosphide is usually used; when it enters the stomach of a rodent, phosphorous hydrogen begins to form in the body, which causes death.

Poisons of Chronic Action (for example, coumarin) do not act immediately. When the rodent is just beginning to eat bait, there are no signs of poisoning. It eats more and more, the poison gradually accumulates in the body, disrupting blood clotting and causing an increase in the permeability of blood vessels. As a result, the rodent dies from extensive internal hemorrhage.

The use of poisoned baits is dangerousif there are pets in the house orsmall children: they too can accidentally eat poisoned bait, if you do not follow. In addition, if you do not clean the corpses of rodents in time, cats or dogs can try to eat them. Because the corpse contains poison, they can get poisoned.

Fighting rodents with pollination based on the cleanliness of rodents. Animals constantly clean the wool and lick dirt off it. The habitats of rodents are pollinated by powder of the same coumarin or zinc phosphide. Animals are dirty in it, lick it from the wool and are poisoned. But this powder can get on food, wool of domestic animals. As a result, pollination is dangerous not only for rodents, but also for other inhabitants of the house.

Gasification is the treatment of rodent habitats with toxic gases (chlorine, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide,ethylene oxide, phosphorous hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and the like). Struggle with rodents with gas has more disadvantages than advantages: this method is expensive and only applicable in industrial buildings. The fact is that these gases are dangerous for all living things, that's why before evacuation it is necessary to evacuate all people and animals from the premises and completely seal it.

Recently, at home, it is increasingly used control of rodents with the help of ultrasonic repellers. These devices work from conventional batteries. They generate ultrasonic waves. A person can not hear them, but they cause panic in rodents, forcing them to get out of their homes on their own. In this case, you do not kill anyone, but only discourage. That's only if you have a hamster or a decorative rat living in your home, while working as a repeller, you'll have to "evacuate" him somewhere.