5 Pest Controllers' Tricks to Stop Rats in their Tracks
Rats incoming!- 5 ways to stop them in their tracks So the cold weather has arrived and, guess what, you’re not the only one who prefers to be inside in the warm. Most wild animals are averse to close contact with humans, that’s what makes them wild. The thing about rats is that they are wild animals that don’t mind getting up close and personal, that is largely why they are considered a pest. What is it about rats that give us the willies? There’s the scuttling gait, the prodigious bowel movements, the damage to property and spoiling of food to worry us but we only have to jump on a chair with our skirts hitched to know there’s more to it than that. There has been a lot written about genetic memory in recent years and I think that’s where our hatred of rats really lies, programmed into our limbic brain. And there are the endless stories of bubonic plague fed to us as school children which is enough to keep us alternately fascinated and wetti...