Sign that you should look to find mice or rats in your home

Sign that you should look to find mice or rats in your home

How can you know whether your home has rats and how to look out for the signs? But the rat control services in Dubai have already cleared your house from any infestation but later you have found some droppings under your sofas and you don't know whether it is the old or new ones.

Rodent Population Size

The size of a population can be indicated through certain signs. Using traps and baits you can easily control them if they can be seen only during the nights. If they can be seen in the night, then it means their population is too much for you to manage. You will need the help of mice and rodent control services in Dubai if you can find certain signs like droppings or gnaw marks even during the night time.

If the droppings are aged, then they will crumble easily as they are dried out. Most of the droppings are dried out and grey. Mostly these droppings are found in the runways close to the areas where food is kept or under the sink and cupboards also in certain hidden areas too. In their nesting or feeding areas, you can find the most number of droppings. To understand whether there is an active infestation, you will have to inspect the place around the new-found droppings.

Scratching noises- The most common name the roof rat is given to the black rats because they are good climbers. Their presence can be noted when one can hear scratching noises in the night and can easily get into places and also the upper floors of your residence. But the noises made by the brown rat is called bruxing and they are not climbers like the black rats. They can be identified by the noises made with the teeth like grinding. These sounds are made by them when they grind their teeth into floorboards or sheds.

A foul odour

If rats are present in your area, then it is sure that your pets will become more active in those areas where rats are present. This happens only if they have recently entered a place and thus the area will have a foul smell. It is good to search at places where your pets have recently taken an interest, as it may be because of the presence of rats. Taking a flashlight is often useful to identify them even during days and nights. To understand whether the infestation is large and active, then you can smell the stale odour coming even from the hidden areas.

As time goes the pathways followed by the rats won't be seen clearly as before, if they were once active around your place. By using a torchlight, you can easily identify their suspected area and find out if any rats are residing. Their pathways can also be recognised by using the same technique. If you find any footprints, urine or droppings along with the footprints then you can be sure that there are rat infestations. By placing flour powder on the floor, you are able to find it by seeing their footprints.