Collier County, Naples Rat Control Situation:
Hello David, We are a warehouse in Naples FL. That deals with telecommunications. We have switch room full of wires and supplies for telephones and Internet supplies. We recently started seen Feces on our shop floor; we also have several huge bay doors but we keep no food or anything like that in the warehouse. It looks as though the rat is only staying in the shop we have not found any feces in our offices or upstairs offices. We have put out liquid poison and hard poison like bars, pellets, and etc. I have even gone to the extreme of a trail deer camera and peanut butter to see if we could get a look at this thing leaving feces. I've Google the feces I've found and came up with roof rat we even have broken the feces up and it looks like its eat crickets an Jun bugs . I guess tonight I will try a hotdog and trail camera again to see if I can get a shot of the rat or thing that is leaving feces everywhere.
Hi David, I was cringing reading your site about rats... I fear them the most of all 4 legged creatures! I couldn't even look at the pictures of them. On that note... I'm just starting to smell a foul scent in a certain area of our home, downstairs. My gut tells me its a dead rat somewhere in the walls. To get a second opinion, I asked our gardener to come inside and take a whiff for himself. I didn't tell him what I thought it was, and he immediately said, "it smells like you have a dead rat somewhere in your walls or in the floor." :-( I'm so disgusted by this... Do you travel to Naples in Southern Florida? If not, can you pls recommend someone good to take care of this problem? Thank you so very much for your expertise and time. Its very much appreciated! Feilani
Naples Rat Control Tip of The Week
Can A Rat Hurt A Human?
Rodents are animals that do not represent a direct threat to people. Although they are intelligent, they do not harm for pleasure. Most of the time, they are just bacteria carriers, but they do not spread them with the intention of starting a pandemic. The cases in which rats have harmed children, might have been because at that moment their instinct was activated to survive. Most houses that are invaded by this urban plague is because they do not take necessary preventive measures and rats have easy access to any corner of the house.
Rats vs. people
Man is surrounded by animals that are predators, so over the years, he decided to protect himself and shelter in homes. Some animals are attracted to find refuge in these homes due to the same necessity of protection and food that humans have. Rodents and people in the same house are a bad combination because of the structural and health damage that rodents can cause.
Can a rat make me sick?
Rats are animals whose excrement, urine, and saliva can contain a great number of bacteria damaging for people's health. Among the most well-known diseases are salmonellosis, leptospirosis, and hepatitis. The most common wounds caused by rodents are bites and scratches. An open and deep wound caused by rodents that come in contact with fluid from a rat will be an open door for microorganisms to spread into the bloodstream causing systemic infections that can be severe and even cause death.
In summary, it can be said that rats can hurt humans through infections by having contact with their fluids or can accidently cause scratches and bites through measures of self-defense. On the other hand, people that have a phobia of these little animals may have psychological damage when coming in contact with them.
