Than to poison rats and mice to quickly get rid of their presence in the house

Among the many means of deratization presented on the market today, it is not so easy for an unprepared person to make a choice in favor of a particular drug. Indeed, it is not always clear why it is better to poison rats and mice in the house so that the procedure is as effective as possible, and at the same time, simple and relatively safe for humans and pets.

Perhaps the first thing that is important to know here is that different rat poisons can vary significantly in their properties, and poisoning rats with them requires taking into account the specifics of each agent.

For example, out of two drugs that seem to be similar in price - “Storm” and “Zookumarin” - with one, the baiting of rats and mice will be generally much less troublesome than with the other. It often happens that cheaper and widely available poison is more effective and faster than its expensive counterpart in beautiful packaging.

And a lot depends on the form of the product. For example, wax briquettes must be handled very carefully so that they do not absorb the smell of a person (if this is not done, then poisoning the rats will be problematic, since they will simply bypass the bait). Poisons in the form of powders dust, and this is dangerous, briquettes from dough quickly mold and lose their smell in damp rooms, and poisoned grain attracts mainly mice, but it is often not so interesting to rats.

There are poisons that contain special bitterness - rats and mice don’t notice the bitter taste, and a dog or cat will not be able to swallow the bait, that is, treatment from rodents with the help of such a drug will be more or less safe for pets.

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There are other nuances. For example, today it has become fashionable to write on packages with poisoned baits about the so-called mummifying effect - it’s possible to poison and poison rats and mice without filling the room with the cadaverous smell of animals decomposing somewhere behind the wall or under the floor. Below we will talk about whether mummifying drugs really exist and whether dead rodents actually turn into withered “mummies”.

When choosing a drug and its further use at home, it is important to pay attention to the active substance of the drug. Here, too, there is a specificity, given which you can significantly accelerate the process of rat poisoning and make it more effective ...

What drugs are considered the most effective against rats?

In private homes, offices, apartments, and in general in residential premises, it is almost always better to poison rats with agents based on blood anticoagulants. Such drugs are very effective, and cases of the development of resistance of rodents to such active substances are still unknown.

Moreover, the effect of blood anticoagulants is very specific, which distinguishes them from other rat poisons:

Anticoagulants disrupt the blood coagulation mechanism in animals, and after the accumulation of a lethal dose (often with a single use) lead to the development of extensive internal hemorrhages, and with them to the death of the pest;
The funds act with a certain delay in time - this increases the likelihood that the rat will feed on the bait several times and still receive its own lethal portion;
In addition, the symptoms of poisoning do not develop immediately in the rodent, the rat does not associate them with poison, does not feel threatened by bait, does not avoid it, and can even lead to the cure of its cautious counterparts.

All blood anticoagulants are divided into two groups, or two generations.Poisons based on second-generation anticoagulants are more effective, since an animal can eat (and usually eats) a portion of the drug with a lethal dose of poison in one feeding, after which it dies within 4-5 days. The poison with the first generation anticoagulants, the rat or mouse should usually eat at least 2 times, that is, the persecution with the help of these means is stretched for a longer period, and in some cases, the pests do not return to the bait and may not die.

Below are some examples of the most popular rat poison today with blood anticoagulants:

Storm;
Rat Death No. 1 and Rat Death No. 2;
Nutcracker;
Ratol;
Zookumarin Neo.

All of them are inexpensive, are sold in markets and in hardware stores in different packaging, including in small bags that cost less than 100 rubles. For the needs of large enterprises, drugs can be purchased in buckets of several kilograms, but in order to poison rats in an apartment, a private house or in a country house, minimal packaging is often enough.

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According to experts, 16 grams of the same Storm (four briquettes of 4 grams each) is enough to poison rats in a living area of 50 square meters. m

All drugs based on blood anticoagulants have their own characteristics, so let's look at the most common drugs in more detail.

Storm

Today, Storm (production of BASF), taking into account the price, effectiveness and ease of use, can be considered one of the best drugs for bullying rats and mice in the house. The active substance of this tool - flocumafen, is one of the most effective blood anticoagulants.

A rat eating this bait dies within 3-8 days (this period depends on how much money the pest ate for the first time and how often it returned to the bait repeatedly). In fact, rodents disappear from the premises after 7-10 days, because they do not always find and eat poison on the first day.

The storm is produced by the largest German chemical concern BASF and is available in several packaging options:

Packaging for 4 grams (1 briquette). Its price is about 15 rubles. A good option for an apartment or a small house in which one rat or mouse is wound up;
A package of 16 grams (4 briquettes) costs about 50 rubles. Allows poisoning rats in an apartment or, for example, the basement of a private house;
A package of 50 grams worth about 120 rubles. This option is well suited for a large private house in which you need to etch a couple of dozen rodents;
A bucket of 10 kg with pellets or briquettes (briquettes can be 4 and 16 grams). Such a bucket costs about 10,000 rubles, and such a volume is optimally suited for fighting rats in enterprises and in basements of apartment buildings.

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It is also important that the Storm preparation is available in the form of wax briquettes and pellets, which makes it especially convenient for use at home. Due to this molding, the bait is easier to dose, it does not dust and for a long time remains attractive to mice and rats.

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Hard Storm pellets may be more preferred for rat poisoning than soft briquettes. The manufacturer specifically produces such pellets with uneven sharp edges - this provokes the animals to nibble them upon detection, even if the animal is not hungry. This behavior is common to all rodents, because they need to grind their teeth constantly - they gnaw the protruding parts of different objects reflexively. This nuance increases the eatability of pellets and the effectiveness of the product.

Storm can be used against rats and mice only where children or pets cannot find it. If bullying is carried out in a residential building, it is advisable to send pets and children during treatment to relatives.In extreme cases, bait stations can be used (we will talk about them below), but they do not give a complete guarantee of safety, since pets can still find the poisoned pest.

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The Storm analogue - a remedy for Goliath rats - could become its competitor, if not for one “but”: the drug is difficult to access and more expensive. Goliath can be bought only in a few online stores, it is sold in large packages (in buckets) and costs almost one and a half times more expensive than Storm. As a result, rats are rarely poisoned in their homes.

Rat Death No. 1 and No. 2

These two drugs are similar in their effectiveness and rules of use. The active substance of Rat Death # 1 is brodifacum, and in Rat Death # 2 - bromadiolone. Both of these substances belong to second-generation blood anticoagulants, both are approximately the same in toxicity to rats, but brodifacum is more dangerous for the environment (this is partially due to the appearance of Rat Death No. 2 - the manufacturer had to switch to a more environmentally friendly active substance in order to comply with environmental standards, preserving product effectiveness).

The drugs are sold at the same price: approximately 70 rubles per package per 100 grams (8 briquettes), or 120 rubles per package per 200 grams (16 briquettes).

Perhaps the main drawback of the tool compared to Storm is the release in the form of soft test briquettes. Such briquettes dry out relatively quickly in residential premises, and sometimes they grow moldy. Therefore, it is better to poison rodents with Rat Death in small apartments and private houses, where there are few pests, and they will relatively quickly find and eat poison.

Feedback:

“We also use rat death 1. Rats usually die within a week. And everything would be fine, but that's just in our apartment after that there always appears a terrible stink. As I understand it, these dead animals begin to decompose ... With us, they always die in hard to reach places, and always in different places. And it is not clear where, either behind the wall, or somewhere under the floor. Now the bathroom, then in the corridor we smell this scum. And fleas also appear and flies fly into the smell. But they are forced to endure, because neither the cat nor the mousetraps help, only poison ... "

Oksana, Moscow

Remedy for rats and mice The Nutcracker

The remedy for rodents The Nutcracker is an analogue of Rat Death No. 1 in terms of the active substance, but it has a nuance: bitterness is added to the remedy, which prevents accidental eating of poison by domestic animals (primarily cats and dogs) and children. However, this does not make the drug completely safe to use: the fact is that the same cat can find and eat a poisoned rat - this must be taken into account and it is necessary to collect and destroy the found corpses of poisoned rodents.

However, when used carefully and following the instructions, the Nutcracker is quite suitable for bullying rats and mice apartments and houses.

The price of the drug is about 50 rubles per package per 100 grams, 100 rubles for 200 grams, about 200 rubles for 500 grams. The Nutcracker is also available in packs for professional use - in buckets of 1.5 and 10 kilograms.

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The closest analogues of the agents described above are Ratol (the active substance is diphenacum, the drug is similar in properties to Storm, it is also produced by BASF, but is sold only in large packaging), Zookumarin Neo (contains bromadiolone and the first generation anticoagulant - zookumarin) and some other drugs. They are also suitable for bullying rats and mice at home.

The order of struggle: how to poison the rats in the house

To poison rats in a house or apartment is not difficult, but this procedure requires compliance with several rules in order to get the maximum result with the least hassle.

First, the poison spreads where rats or mice can quickly find it, that is, in places where rodents are likely to be.Such places can be calculated by droppings, food debris, gnawed materials, and in basements - by digging and traces of dust.

Often, homeowners are well aware of where rats scurry around and where they look for food (for example, near a bin, stocks of vegetables and cereals in the room). It is here that the poison is laid out in a conspicuous place.

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In each place it is enough to put one briquette (or a small pile of poisoned grain). The rat may not eat the entire portion of the bait, but even a small amount is often enough for the animal to poison itself. Putting 2-3 briquettes right next to them is irrational - it will be more effective if you put them one at a time in different places.

Secondly, all briquettes need to be checked once every 1-2 days. Those baits that the rats ate completely or dragged off somewhere are replaced by new ones - and so on until the pests stop eating poison.

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Thirdly, if there are children in the house, the poison should be placed in bait boxes - any boxes that have openings for rats, but from which the child will not be able to get the contents. This will be a sufficient guarantee of security.

Fourth, rodents (especially rats) are very sensitive to human odors if they come from bait. Therefore, all work with the drugs should be carried out with gloves (this will also protect against poison on the skin of the hands).

If after several eatings all the baits remain intact for more than 2-3 days, it makes sense to put them in new places, and if rodents do not eat them there, then all the briquettes can be removed. This situation means that there are no more living rats and mice in the house.

Finally, poisoned rats will die and rot somewhere, and often here in the house, and this is a big problem. The “mummifying” products advertised on many sites, after which the rodents allegedly do not decompose, but simply dry out, are nothing more than an advertising move by sellers. None of the poisonous rats known today has such a mummifying effect, which means that there is always a risk that the dead rat (or rats) will decompose indoors.

If there are places in the house from which the corpse of the pest cannot be pulled out (for example, a duct of ventilation systems, cavities behind drywall), then it may make sense to use other means instead of poison.

How to poison rats with professional and sanitary services

What to do if you do not want to poison the rats yourself, or you are afraid to use powerful poison in your own home without proper preparation? In such cases, rodent harassment services may come to the rescue.

The procedure itself is officially called deratization - in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other large cities it can be carried out by many companies specializing in pest control in general (with insects, moles, rodents, birds, etc.). Specialists of these services poison rats and mice with professional preparations, and often use the aforementioned Storm and Ratol. If the owner of the premises does not want chemistry to be used in his house, then the specialists do not process the premises, but catch rodents with traps.

As a rule, the services of a good disinfestation service start from 2500 rubles for baiting rats in a small house. The price depends on the size of the room, the number of rats in it, the need to travel outside the city, as well as on the guarantees provided by the company.

Meanwhile, municipal sanitary services should poison the rats and mice in the apartment building, and the management company should deal with the organization of this process. Typically, baiting rats in the basements of urban houses is carried out on schedule (usually in the summer) and does not require any efforts from the residents of the house.

Nevertheless, if rats roam the porch, climb onto balconies and even into apartments, you need to write a statement to the SES (just write it in any form, a sample of it is not required) and to the management company. Well, if such a complaint is collective, immediately from many residents of the house - in this case they will be considered faster.

Feedback:

“There was a problem with rats at work. Not only did they nibble the bags, they also clogged the food. Never before faced with this problem, they themselves did not want to use chemistry, and otherwise I do not even know how to lime this evil. They began to look for someone to conduct such etching. As a result, they called a private service of deratization. Good organization, the guys came twice, laid out the bait and traps, closed holes in the walls, left a whole training manual on how to protect the warehouse from rodents. Now we have already signed an agreement with them for permanent service, neither in the warehouse nor in the stores there are rats or mice ... ”

Oleg, Makhachkala

How to get rid of rats without poison

Finally, you can get rid of rats without poison, and often such a fight can be even more effective than using poisons.

So, as an alternative to poison, you can apply:

Traps (usually use ordinary rat traps crush). They are good in that one trap can catch tens and hundreds of rats, if necessary, and without any additional financial costs. Nevertheless, traps have their drawbacks: they are more troublesome to use than poisons, and pose some danger to children and pets (in particular, a rat trap may well break a cat's paw). But, perhaps, the most unpleasant thing is that from the rat trap you will have to regularly remove the animal with crushed bones, and sometimes even fluttering;
Live traps are completely safe, but at the same time as effective as traps. Their main disadvantage is the need to do something with the rat that was caught - either kill it or take it far outside the premises and release it. This is troublesome. On the other hand, live traps can be made with your own hands, sometimes it is faster, more efficient and even easier than buying poison or traps in industrial production;
Another option - a cat or a rat-cat, can be borrowed from neighbors or relatives and locked in a room with rats. Often, just such a method of combating rats is easier and more effective than all others;
Electronic rat repellers - in some cases, they really help scare away rodents. But the disadvantage of such devices is that you can never know in advance whether the device will work against rats in a particular house or not. At the same time, repellers are quite expensive and, in addition, not only rodents, but also pets can react sharply to them.

Nevertheless, the poison is good in that, with the right approach, they allow to kill a large (sometimes huge) number of rats in a short period of time and with minimal labor. If you take into account the features of the use of poisoned baits, with their help you can get rid of pests in almost any room.