Rodent Control. What Rats Can Do

Rodent Control. What Rats Can Do. Rodent Control. Rodents or more to the point Rats and Mice have always thrived in all Australian conditions and temperatures. Rats and Mice species were introduced to Australia upon the arrival of European settlers. Given the right climate rats and mouse numbers can boarder on plague proportions. Rats can transmit disease, such as the Bubonic plague, typhus fever and Salmonella. Some Rodent facts. Rodents eat about 10 per cent of their body weight daily. The average rodent will consume 30 grams a day. Five rodents can lay around 70,000 droppings and over 27 litres of urine a year. Rodents can easily contaminate food. Rodents can also be very destructive. Fires have started because rodents chew into electrical cables and wiring around commercial and domestic properties. Rodent Control. What We Can Do. Our rat controller will survey the infested area. Removal of all food sources is paramount. Containers may be necessary to completely isolate the rodents from food. Fruit that has fallen from trees should be removed to prevent rat and mice feeding. Our rodent controller will remove all items that rats and mice could use as shelter and nests. Eliminate access points from the rodents such as tree branches and ropes. The rat controller will then implement a programme to control the mouse and rat problem. This will be carried out safely and humanely. All the rodent pest will be safely removed from the property. Rodent Control. What You Can Do With Our Help and Advice. After the rodent treatment it is important to be vigilant. Continue to put in place the techniques that the rodent controller has set up.