Rats find many hiding places near your homes and sometimes inside your home. Cities have rat problems that mostly emanate from plumbing and sewer lines. Sewer lines and plumbing lines are infested with these rats and they actually are common Norway Rats who are adapted to living in sewer lines hence are known as sewer rats. The name itself makes you cringe but when you see the size they can attain at times can be really threatening and terrifying. Norway rats or sewer rats like to burrow and live there hence they seek asylum in sewer lines. Sewer tunnels are isolated and uninhabited by human hence make safe haven for these rats so they build their nests there. These rats won’t stop there and will make in to your home when they smell food from your kitchen or flooding happens. Getting rid of them is difficult for you so it is advised to seek expert rat exterminators like BBPP, the best rat control Markham and ask them to remove them from your home.
Norway rats like to live in sewer lines because they are fond of eating human waste and there is plenty available there. The sewer pipes also allow them to explore and find new horizons such as your home. The sewer rate can be anywhere from 6-inches to 12-inches and may weight about 2 pounds. Their average life span is 2 years. How will you identify the sewer rat? If you find a rat which is twice the size of a regular black rat you can be sure that it is sewer rat. If it is dark brown or grey and is bigger than normal rat you it can be deemed as sewer rat. Being nocturnal they sleep during day time and become alive at nights and that is the time you will hear them crawling inside your house. Rats do not need much leeway to enter homes and a small hole enough to fit the head will enable rest of the body to squeeze in. A group of them will easily make in to your house through a hole or crack in the foundation and ransack it for food. Once they have entered they will seek damp places in your house like basement, attic, crawl space and wall cavities and build their nests.
It is difficult to detect them by sight because they live underground but you can spot their droppings and come to the conclusion. a sewer rat nest can easily accommodate 15-20 rats and larger nests will have attendance in hundreds. You can place traps to catch them but must buy larger traps not traps that are meant to catch mice. You can choose from live traps, snap traps and electric rat zappers and the snap trap is the cheapest while the electric ones tend to be expensive. However you may not be able to cope with a colony of hundreds of sewer rats and that should be left for experts like BBPP, the most effective pest control Markham and for nearby districts. Not everyone has the courage to encounter and catch a sewer rat dead or alive as they are big, nasty and menacing looking. Your best bet lies with professional rats’ extermination and you can contact them on phone number 647-910-6315 or by email info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.