The habits and harborage of rats vary with the rodent itself, they usually harbor in trees and dense landscape such as ivy, bushes, etc. They can survive with as little as one or two ounces of moisture and one ounce of food a day.

Rats are capable of producing up to 25,000 fecal droppings a year, much is bound to land in locations such as food storage cabinets, cupboards, closets, or in bedrooms, on pillows and playthings of children in the house. They are capable of spreading diseases such as Salmonella.

They are usually nocturnal, if you see or hear them during the day, it can be a large population looking for food and harborage, in some cases for gestation purposes.

The habits and harborage or rats vary with the rodent itself, they
usually harbor in trees and dense landscape such as ivy, bushes,
etc. They can survive with as little as one or two ounces of moisture
and the same with food. There are usually two kinds of rats in this
particular area, they are the Norway rat which usually is carnivorous
and the Roof rat which is not carnivorous, but when a food source
is not available, they will resort to other sources.

To give you an idea how versatile rats are; they can burrow in the soil, scale walls, walk on telephone wires, are excellent swimmers and are exceptionally resilient, surviving falls up to 50 feet. Rats are socially unacceptable and the parasites they carry, such as fleas, mites and worms, can spread many diseases. The food they eat, they contaminate. They have an incredible ability to survive and can be very difficult to eliminate. They are extremely compatible with human behavior and their needs. Bear in mind, rats can penetrate through a half-inch hole in diameter.

For more information on diseases please contact: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention at 800-311-3435 or contact them at: www.cdc.gov/netinfo.htm

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Roof Rat

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Norway Rat