Fremantle rats have been known to start fires.
Rats in my roof perth.
Black rats also known as the roof rat are agile climbers and can easily gain access into loft spaces and upper.
Brown rat droppings are dark brown in a tapered spindle shape about 9mm 14mm long.
Noises in the attic are worrying and can be an indication that rodents or other wildlife may be living in your roof.
Around the world rats and mice are known to spread over 35 diseases.
Scratching noises think you might have rats in your roof.
Fremantle rats are some of the worst perth rats around and they are more active at night setting up their disco ball in your roof and running around early evening and early morning.
Attics lofts or ceiling cavities are ideal environments for possums rats and mice who damage stored items and electric cabling by gnawing and possibly causing fires they are also ideal environments for nesting birds that can spread disease mites and fleas.
Perth has a high number of rat pests which keep on moving all around the location.
The sicko rats like to chew the electrical wires in your roof and it is a fact that rodents cause 6 of house fires.
There are a number of species of rats however we will only concern ourselves here with the 2 types that are most prevalent in western australia homes and offices the black or roof rat and the norway or brown rat.
You can hear them scuttling scratching or gnawing you can also sometimes smell them.
Rats can be discouraged and controlled simply by denying them food and shelter.
Get rid of roof rats in four basic steps.
You should know the rat species which are breeding in your house and office areas.
Types of rats in western australia.
I live close to the river in perth.
Mainly perth has bush rats rice rats house rats roof rats black rats brown rats norway rats long haired rats and marsh rats.
If you aren t having success with these gentler rat removal methods then you might have to resort to rat traps.
Rat droppings usually found concentrated areas as rats produce up to 40 droppings per night.
Listen for any noises in your roof.
What you ll want to look for are any signs that the rats are present including droppings tracks gnaw marks burrows runways and rodent sounds.
Home remedies to kill rats.
Protect your health keep rats and mice under control.
Diseases can also be transferred indirectly by ticks fleas and mites that live on infected rats.
If they do die in your roof space they really do stink for a bit 3 4 days tends to be normal.
They can resemble a large grain of rice.
Don t let your dog eat the dead rats as he she will get sick as a dog.
But they normally die in the garden.
In perth some of the most common rodent species are the house mouse brown rat and roof rat.
Look out for brown rub marks on walls stains on roof plaster and droppings.
We get rats a lot.
