Rat death

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Paste for rats and mice

20 sachets, 10 g each

Scientists explain: “Most of the deterrents can scare away, either by smell, or by taste, or by inducing fear. Pepper, mint, garlic, various essential oils, castor oil, diatomaceous earth are considered so-called contact repellents of plant origin, acting through smell and taste. The third type of repellent contains ingredients of animal origin, such as the urine of predators (such as foxes), dried blood and hair - they cause the animals to panic and make them flee. ".

Based on this, choose the mice repellents wisely - look at the composition and still use traps or poisons as the main method.

Getting rid of rats at home with folk remedies

There are many popular methods for getting rid of rats. Many people believe that they really help to do without poisons and other means. We do not undertake to judge how effective they actually are, we just list a few popular recipes:

Stir the plaster of paris and flour 1: 1 and leave this handful near a bowl of water - the rodent will eat and want to drink, but over time the plaster will harden in its stomach.

You can also drive rats out of a private cottage with the help of ash, which is unpleasant for them because it irritates the skin.

Make a repellent with your own hands: roll up balls of cotton wool, dip them in essential oil peppermint or eucalyptus and scatter where pests have been seen. It might scare them away.

Get a Cat: For many felines, there is no greater joy than chasing rodents - and the more, the better for the cat. You will then only have to collect dead carcasses around the house. But such a method cannot be counted on 100%: not all cats catch mice or rats.

Usually, when trying to get rid of rats in a private house, the first thing to do is to use mouse traps (rat traps), or one or another rat poison. Someone may still remember about cage traps, rodent glue, electric traps and ultrasonic repellents. But here's the bad luck - often the use of these and other means in a private house does not give a visible result, or the result is minimal.

It also happens that the result is not at all happy - for example, a poisoned rat begins to gradually decompose somewhere behind a wall or under the floor, saturating almost the whole house with a cadaverous smell for several months.

So, in order to obtain the desired effect when fighting rats and mice, it is important to take into account the specifics of a private house: in most cases there is a direct connection with the street (which the owners often do not even know about), cavities under the floor and in the walls, usually there are many rooms, there is a basement , an attic with a lot of insulation under the roof is almost an ideal place for rodents to live.

Secondly, you need to choose the right means and methods of dealing with rats, taking into account the important nuances of their practical application(sometimes even when using effective remedy the result is zero - for example, when the owner of the house buys an effective rat trap, and puts the bait in it absolutely unattractive to rats, or even installs the rat trap in the wrong place).

Features of fighting rats in a private house

If we approach the problem from the point of view of a professional exterminator, then getting rid of rats and mice in a private house seems to be a more difficult task than, for example, in an apartment or in a small commercial enterprise.

There are several reasons for this:

1. The house usually has a large area, and often the remedy used in one part of it does not work on rodents living in another part or on another floor. This is especially true for devices that have a strictly defined coverage area (for example, for ultrasonic repellents);
2. Private houses have premises different types and varying degrees of litter. In the case of heavy littering, it can be more difficult to get rid of the rats;
3. Often in houses there are many places that are convenient for the life and movement of rats, and not all such places can be used to control rodents;
4. People live in the house, often with children and pets, and some means of fighting rats and mice can be simply dangerous for residents. For example, highly effective rat poison and traps can usually be used to kill rodents in the basement, but they usually cannot be used in the kitchen or bedroom for security reasons;
5. In some houses, it is generally undesirable to use poisons, since rats can die in inaccessible places (for example, behind the ceiling, under the floor or in the insulation of the house wall) and, decomposing, will emit a disgusting smell for a long time;
   
6. It is often kept right around the house. great amount rats and mice - in the garden, in the shed, in the neighboring plots. And all of them will constantly strive to enter the house (especially when it is cold outside and there is little food). Therefore, by the way, it is quite problematic to get rid of the rats in the house once and for all - it is possible to destroy the already living pests, but their new detachments will willingly try to enter the room again and again;
7. A variety of layouts, sizes, building materials, the quality of houses and, as a result, the lack of a universal method of fighting rodents. What works in a small home may not work in a large one.

Nevertheless, there are quite universal principles effective fight with rats and mice, applicable in private homes. Let's talk about how to put all this into practice and what specific means can be used.

How to use rat traps effectively?

In most cases, various rat traps are preferred for use. Many of them, when used correctly, are very effective; with their help, you can methodically destroy rats one by one on your own until complete extermination. At the same time, rat traps are quite affordable: you can buy them in markets, in household goods stores and in online stores.

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It is also worth keeping in mind that well-made homemade traps work no worse than industrial ones.

An important advantage of traps over poisoning when used in a private home: in the case of the application of the poison, there is a high risk of the poison being carried away by rodents around the house or summer cottage, in addition, pets can find and eat a poisoned dying rodent. By using traps, these risks are eliminated. And what is important, when using traps, you can definitely be sure that a dead rat or mouse will not begin to decompose somewhere behind the wall of the house.

However, rat and mouse traps have a number of disadvantages that must also be considered:

Potentially dangerous traps (mouse traps and rat traps of the type of crusher with a spring) can only be used in those rooms that children and pets do not enter - in the basement, storage room, boiler room, in the attic.

Alternatively, the trap can be placed in a closed box, in the wall of which several holes with a diameter of about 5 cm are made - exactly those holes into which a hungry rat can squeeze, but through which none of the pets can get there.

These boxes are called bait stations - they are commercially available (usually made of plastic). They can be used in any room, but sometimes the most cautious rats still do not get in them, even if there is a very attractive bait inside (in the trap).

Live traps in this regard are more convenient - they do not pose a threat to either people or pets, and they can catch rodents even in the bedroom or children's room. But they also force us to solve additional problems: how, after the capture, to kill the animal on our own, or where to take it out and release it so that it does not return to the house. Not everyone can kill a live rat, but not everyone has time to release it a kilometer from home.

The most popular rat traps come in several types:

1. The crushers are those very well-known dies with a spring, colloquially called mousetraps, only for mice they are small, and for rats more. They are quite effective, inexpensive and durable, but when applied without bait stations, they are not always safe;
   
2. Electric rat traps, in which the rat is killed by an electric shock. The most modern models they know how to "pack" the carcasses of victims in a special compartment and recharge, due to which the rat trap can kill several rats without a human check. To throw them away, you just need to empty the contents of the compartment into a garbage bag;
   
3. Glue traps, which are made of cardboard or plastic coated on the surface special glue from rodents (there are ready-to-use sticky traps of industrial production, or you can buy glue and make such a trap for rats and mice with your own hands). In general, we can say that glue traps are difficult to use, cause a lot of trouble if a pet or a child gets dirty with glue, and are very inhumane - the animal dies on the glue a painful death within several days. On the other hand, glue from rodents is good because it can catch not only rats and mice, but also domestic insect pests - cockroaches sometimes stick to it much large quantities than rodents;
   
4. Live traps in the form of cages with a slamming door are perhaps the safest, but rather bulky and worse on the market.
   

If rats started in a private house a long time ago and managed to breed, sometimes you have to spend a lot of time fighting them with the help of rat traps. It is likely that in big house the trap will have to be rearranged several times, choosing the optimal place, or trapping rodents in turn in each room. It is best to place the device where excrement and traces of the food of animals are found, or it is known for sure that rodents run through here (for example, traces of rubbing rats with fur are visible).

On the other hand, a trap bought once will last for years. The only one consumable there is a bait in it.

It should be borne in mind that the effectiveness of the use of the trap largely depends on the bait. Even the most effective trap will not work if you load it with a bait that is unattractive to a rodent, and vice versa - a good bait will lure even a cautious rat into a trap that the animal would otherwise prefer to bypass.

Practice shows that the best bait for rats is smoked sausage, minced meat with onions, bacon, canned fish, and for mice - pieces of fruit, the same bacon or a crust of bread dipped in vegetable oil.

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In general, it is fat that can be considered one of the most versatile and effective baits for any rodents in the house. There is a little trick - if you light fat with a match before placing it in the rat trap, then even the most intelligent and cautious rats often cannot resist its smell.

Traps should be charged and set in the house until rats are caught. It often happens that rodents do not visually manifest themselves in anything, but, for example, the trap stably continues to catch them day after day. For the same reason, by the way, it is useful to just keep a charged rat trap in places where rats appear most often - if a new pest climbs into the house from the street, he will immediately try to steal the bait lying in the most conspicuous place, and will be caught ...

Making our life easier: homemade rat traps from scrap materials

It is quite possible to make a trap for rodents with your own hands from improvised means. This allows you to get rid of rats and mice with minimal cost finance, and often homemade traps work just as well as industrial options.

For example, at home, it is very easy to make a very effective live trap from a deep container, a piece of thick wire and two or three planks. The challenge here is to make a tilting bridge out of wire and one plank. A bait is placed on the edge of the bridge, it is installed on the container, and an impromptu ladder is made to the entire structure, along which the animal can climb to the edge of the container. As soon as he tries to get closer to the bait, the bridge overturns and the rat falls into the container.

It is useful to do two non-obvious things in such a construction:

1. Pour water into the container so that the rat cannot push off the bottom and jump out;
2. Attach the bait to the bridge - after the rat falls into the container, the structure will return to its original position and will be able to catch more than one rat.

There are many options for implementing such a mechanism: a rat can fall off the table, climbing into a cardboard house with a bait on the edge; or above the container (barrel, bucket), you can place a bottle rotating on a metal rod, coated with bait so that it turns under the weight of the animal and "drops" it into the container.

Below on the video you can see illustrative example work of such a trap:

There are other options for uncomplicated homemade traps allowing you to get rid of rats in a private home without the use of any other means. Among other things, traps can be made lethal, so that the rat then does not have to be killed personally or shaken out alive.

Such traps are used in the same way as purchased ones, and their main advantages are the ability to be made at home and, in most cases, increased safety of use (which, however, depends on the design).

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But the conditional gratuitousness of homemade rat traps can hardly be considered such a significant advantage. The price of a good crush today is 70-80 rubles, and rat poison in an amount sufficient to get rid of rats in an average-sized private house costs about 50 rubles on the market. Moreover, not every home owner will be ready to spend an hour or two of their time creating a homemade rat trap.

To summarize: traps are well suited for the safe, methodical extermination of rats in the house, and if they are used in conjunction with bait stations, then rodents can be caught in almost any room. Traps will not work, perhaps, in cases where a large number of rats or mice must be destroyed as quickly as possible, and all at once.

In this case, poisons for rodents can come to the rescue.

How to get rid of rats in the house using poison?

One of the main advantages of the so-called rat poisons is the ability to quickly exterminate a large number of rodents with their help. After being laid out in the house, such drugs work completely autonomously, and only as the animals eat the poison, its amount needs to be periodically replenished with new portions.

An example of how this usually works in practice: say, if five rats live in a house and they all eat such a poisonous bait in one night, then all will die at about the same time. In a week or two, the house will already be free of rodents.

However, it should be borne in mind that not all rat poisons are equally effective - the most effective drugs today contain blood anticoagulants (substances that cause extensive hemorrhages in the internal organs and subsequent death in rats).

Among such substances are flocumafen, brodifacum, bromadiolone, difenacum and some others. Of the drugs based on them, the following are quite popular (not unreasonably) today:

1. Storm;
2. Nutcracker;
3. Rat Death # 1 and # 2;
4. Ratindan.

And some others.

These rodent poisons are inexpensive, sold in many stores, and do get rid of rats and mice, even in a large private home. The principle of their action is based on the fact that the animal, after eating the poison, disrupts the blood coagulation mechanism and, as a result, develops multiple internal bleeding.

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Approximately on the third or fourth day after the first eating of the poisoned bait, the animal dies. Rats do not smell the presence of poison in the bait, and before receiving a lethal dose, the animal does not feel signs of poisoning - due to this, pests do not develop alertness towards such means, they do not avoid them and are actively poisoned.

Poisons are laid out where rodents are likely to find them. Periodically, the presence of the poison is checked, and new portions are placed in the place of the eaten bait.

You can use rat poison only where pets, children, and generally anyone other than rats and mice will not find them. In particular, the use of such drugs on the street, where birds or stray animals can be poisoned, is unacceptable. Consideration should also be given to the danger to pets that could eat a dying or already dead poisoned rat.

In order to increase the safety of use, poisons, like traps, can be used in bait stations. However, although pets will not find the actual poison, they may well find a poisoned rat.

Summary: it makes sense to use poisons where there are a lot of rats, and at the same time, it will be possible to find the corpses of animals after death without much effort - in stone houses and basements with a strong good finish, in rooms where the walls are not used soft insulation... However, if there is a risk that a cat or dog will find a poisoned rodent, it is better to refuse to use poisons.

What is useful to know about the use of ultrasonic scarers of rats and mice

Ultrasonic rodent repellents are good because with their help you can sometimes get rid of rats in the house without killing the animals and without contacting them at all. An effective repeller simply generates high frequency sounds that make the rats feel uncomfortable and try to leave the house.

At the same time, the signals of ultrasonic scarers are not audible to a person, and therefore the operation of the device at home is practically invisible to people (however, some people may have headaches from ultrasound). But pets can clearly react to ultrasound - often the devices cause them stress and discomfort. This must be taken into account: if rats need to be driven out of a room in which a cat or dog is constantly located, then it is better not to use an ultrasonic repeller for this.

A significant disadvantage of ultrasonic scarers is that they only strictly protect against rats and mice. limited area, basically - they allow you to get rid of rodents within the same room (ultrasound does not penetrate through walls and, moreover, is actively absorbed by carpets, upholstered furniture and other interior items).

As a rule, rather expensive devices cope with the protection of large premises of a private house more or less reliably - Bioguard (about 4,500 rubles), Chiston 2 Pro (cost about 2,500 rubles), Banzai TM-315 (about 10,000 rubles). More modest in price scarers sometimes manage to scare away rats from small rooms, for example, from a small basement or from a garage, or from part of them, while literally through a wall, rats will feel quite comfortable.

It is clear that it is unlikely that it will be possible to completely get rid of pests in a large private house in this way, and it would be much more rational and effective to overfill the rodents with a trap.

It should also be borne in mind that sometimes even powerful ultrasonic scarers do not allow you to get rid of rats in the house (in the basement, closet, room). This is due to the fact that rats can get used to the ultrasound emitted by the device. It will be possible to check exactly whether the device will work or not only in practice.

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Chinese inexpensive devices in the form of small boxes, positioned today as magnetic resonance or electromagnetic, and supposedly allowing you to get rid of any pests in the house (rats, mice, cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, etc.), in practice do not give a visible effect at all , which is confirmed by numerous reviews on the Internet.

Folk remedies for rats for a private house

When rats start somewhere in country house and completely overwhelmed by the tenants, the old "grandmother's" recipes for fighting rodents are often used. Indeed, some of these remedies sometimes work.

For example, poison for mice and rats from milk with alabaster can to some extent replace more effective and modern means based on blood anticoagulants. Alabaster (gypsum), once in the gastrointestinal tract of a rodent, leads to intestinal obstruction, as a result of which the animal dies. In practice, however, rats tend to be wary of such baits and avoid them.

Sometimes in private houses, rat holes are plugged with rags soaked in kerosene or vinegar - it is assumed that due to the strong smell this will scare rats out of the room. Ground red pepper was also used to scare away earlier, but the effectiveness of such repellents is very low.

In general, we can say that completely get rid of rats in a private house with the help of one folk remedies rarely succeeds. But even if you try to do this, you need to take into account the possible dangers.

For example, actively wetting rat holes with kerosene or denatured alcohol, do not forget that these liquids are fire hazardous, and milk with alabaster mixed in it is dangerous not only for rats, but also for cats and dogs.

Rodent protection at home

All the means and methods of getting rid of rodents discussed above, even if they are effective, have one common drawback - they are all temporary. Rats can be poisoned, overfished, sometimes scared away, but if once they appeared in a private house, it means that they found a way here, and with a high probability their brothers will come here in the same way in the future.

Therefore, as soon as you managed to get rid of the rats in the house, you need to do everything possible so that in the future they do not get here. To do this, you should:

1. Find out how pests enter your home. There can be many options - rats and mice can dig holes under the basement, gnaw through insulation, make holes in wooden walls, climb through open doors or through ventilation pipes, through the sewer;
   
   
2. Close the path of entry of rodents - close metal mesh ventilation, lay a grid under the floor in the basement (if the floor is earthen), use materials that rats do not gnaw as a heater at home (for example, they gnaw on construction foam, so you can use expanded clay, foam glass, ecowool);
3. Take measures to ensure that there are fewer rats near the house. It is useful to keep a rat-catcher in the yard (and run it from time to time in the house), use it in the barn and summer kitchen the same protection measures as in the house, to take care of the garden and vegetable garden, so that rodents do not feel at ease here even in summer. In such conditions, the likelihood that pests will get close to the house is significantly reduced.

Finally, in the most difficult situations for help, you can call specialists from the services of deratization. Their services are quite expensive (at least if it is a really good service), but when the rats really get overwhelmed, and you can't get rid of them on their own, or there is no desire to do this, professionals usually solve the problem quickly enough.

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Interesting video: we make traps for rodents from improvised means

An example of making another original rat trap

Rats breed very quickly all year round, and therefore you need to get rid of them instantly, otherwise it will take a lot of effort, time and money to fight rodents. In addition, rats can reach large dimensions, an adult male can be as large as. Their sharp teeth are capable of gnawing not only thick partitions, but also iron.

Despite the fact that rats willingly eat everything that comes their way, they are very shrewd rodents and instinctively feel poison. Therefore, often chemical agents on rodent control do not have the desired effect. This is due to the fact that rats simply do not eat toxic substances.

An interesting fact: rats in their squad always have an outcast, who, in case of danger, is sent forward or forced to taste food. If the food is poisoned and the outcast dies, the rats will not touch it.

Scarers

But do not despair, because you can always fight rodents. If you find rats in your home, start with a rodent-repellent or special rat trap. Rat repellents are safe for humans, they send ultrasonic impulses that are perceived only by the rat's ear, after which the rodents leave. Traps or rat traps catch rodents and lock them inside the mechanism. Caught rodents can simply be thrown away.

Destruction of rats by folk methods

You can also remove rats using methods. Places where rodents have appeared should be sprinkled with ash. As you know, rats cannot tolerate this substance and leave on their own. If this does not help, then you can use a special recipe. From gypsum and flour, taken in equal proportions, make small handfuls, and substitute a saucer with water for them. Rats, after eating this mixture and feeling thirsty, will definitely want to drink. After a certain amount of time, the gypsum will harden in the rodent's stomach, and it will die.

There are plants that rats cannot tolerate. These include dried chamomile, fresh burdock, tansy, and stems and a weed called black root. The smell of these herbs can drive rats out of the house and from the garden.

Rats are afraid of snakes. This natural opposition can be used at home, just get a hissing reptile or rent it for a week. The snake does not need to crawl all over the house, place a terrarium in the middle of the kitchen and that will be enough.

Prophylaxis

To prevent the appearance of rats in the house or, it is necessary to keep the home clean and tidy. Also, do not store large stocks of cereals for a long time, all perishable foods should be kept only in. If you find gaps in, they should be immediately followed.

Rats are amazingly smart. They are able to remember the place from where they were driven away and return after a while.

Pay attention to the fact that rats often come after mice, so poison and drive out uninvited guests without waiting for new ones to appear.

If there is a restaurant or a dining room next to yours, most likely you cannot do without derotizers. The thing is that rats will not just go away from food, it will take serious and systematic work to get rid of them.

Keeping rats out of residential buildings is not easy. There is always food and warmth. However, it is necessary to fight them, since rats spread leptospirosis, rabies, make noise at night, spoil furniture, food, and clothing.

Rats are tied to housing, human life. They are found in dachas, in apartments. Interestingly, they live on all continents, except for the Arctic regions. The migration of rats was facilitated by the travel of people by air, sea, and land transport.

Ash as poison for pests

The day comes when the fight against rats becomes especially urgent. You can use ash, rats do not tolerate it. Since the ash on the paws of disease carriers causes discomfort, they leave the room.

For the extraction of ash, you can use wood, various organic matter, straw, which you just need to burn, you can do this in the country or in the courtyard of a private house.

You can make rat bait. To do this, take match heads, dissolve in water. These products contain phosphorus and sulfur. Since rats love dairy products, you can moisten feta cheese or cottage cheese in this solution, scatter it in small pieces in different parts of a private house, this method is also suitable for apartments.

Glass and injured rats

Good results can be achieved by breaking glass and placing it in the corners of an apartment or private house. The rat will hit the glass, cut himself and not come.

Houses near a reservoir are in particular danger.

Rats can migrate when moving with things. Often they enter the premises from garbage chutes, utility rooms, houses, apartments.

Since the temperature in the cellars is comfortable and there are large stocks of food, the rodents are very fond of the cellars. They also took a fancy to the attached sheds.

You can also find rats in basements. multi-storey buildings and this is not an exceptional case. You can see them near garbage cans, even with regular garbage collection by garbage trucks.

About cats and dogs

The cat knows what rat fighting is . It is advisable to choose adult cat, who did not live in an apartment, but in a private house. The kitten will be frightened, and an adult apartment cat, finding himself face to face with a dozen rats alone, will simply run away from the room. If the house is attacked by an invasion of rats, then one cat will not cope with the task.

If you like dogs more, then choose hunting breeds. Watchdogs won't chase rats.

Juniper spines and tender rat legs

You can fight rats with juniper spines. The pest's unprotected legs are bare and can be used for control. Gardeners often use this technique to save grown vegetables - they simply scatter broken glass or glass wool between the boxes.

Fighting rats with electric traps

If the mousetraps still somehow justify themselves, then the fight against rats with the help of traps is ineffective.

The rats have a collective intelligence, natural cunning, scientists have found that they are able to warn other individuals of danger, and they act together. They simply bypass the rat traps.

Vendors may offer glue traps in which to place baits. These traps are quite sticky, usually rats cannot escape from there, but it happens that they manage to escape from there. But overall, this is a good way to deal with rodents.

There are more humane ways to catch rats. Rats fall into such traps, but remain intact. However, it is worth considering how to get rid of live rats in the future. The rodent is in the container and cannot get out.

To eliminate rats, you can choose a suitable poison and put it in a container, after a short period of time the rodent will die.

Craftsmen make water traps - for this they use a bucket of salt solution, add a layer of husk or sawdust there, and bait.

You can use slamming traps - just set up boxes of bait and sticks.

Large selection of aerosols and tablets

To combat rats effectively, you can choose gels, liquids, powders, aerosols, creams, sprays in stores, the action of which is aimed at eliminating rodents.

There are products that are immediately ready to use. Some powders need to be mixed with a lump of food. It is advisable to give preference to tablets or ready-made briquettes, since all that remains is to scatter them in certain places, and the person's contact with the poison is minimal.

Improvised means for destruction

To eliminate rodents, you can make a mixture of malt and quicklime. The resulting solution is poured into a special dish, left overnight where they usually appear.

Pest control specialists can offer the treatment of premises with various poisonous gases. They can use chlorine, carbon monoxide, phosphine. This is an unsafe and time-consuming job, so it is worth contacting exclusively specialists.

During the period of persecution of rodents, you need to leave the room and try to scare them away with a smell. Rats do not tolerate persistent, harsh, strong odors. For this purpose, you can use acetone, kerosene, vinegar, tansy, chamomile flowers, gasoline.

You can use ultrasonic repellents. They are quite effective, although there are times when the rats leave for a while to a neighboring area and, after turning off the equipment, return to your garden area again.

You can use soda. It causes increased gas production in rodents, then the rats die.

To eliminate rodents, you can use flour, cereals in combination with cement, alabaster or gypsum. Combine flour, alabaster, or any of the above ingredients in a bowl.

The rodent will try such a bait, and when he drinks water, this mixture will harden in the digestive organs, and he will die. You can also use bread sunflower oil, crushed wine cork.

If the rats are in the basement, then you can sprinkle with broken glass and concrete the floor. Steel mesh can be installed for ventilation holes... You can periodically process the room with bleach.

Safety rules for baiting rats

When exterminating rodents, attention should be paid to places where food is stored, paths, holes, chosen by pests.

When fighting rodents, you should follow the safety rules, be sure to read the instructions for the tool or device and act in stages, without neglecting the instructions in the document.

To combat rodents, it is worth using several methods at once. It can be an ultrasonic repeller, scattered tablets with poison, bowls with hardening components.

For the fastest possible effect, it is better to contact a specialist who will perform aeration suburban area and rid you of the rats.