If you find you hear noise during the day you are dealing with a larger number of rats.
Roof rat warning.
They can also chew through electrical wires water pipes and cause other damage to your home.
Rat droppings urine and nest can contain dangerous pathogens and bacteria that can make you very sick.
If you have roof rats you may see rat droppings around your home outside your home or in your yard.
You may see rat droppings.
Roof rat chewing and scurrying is heard overhead and makes a good night sleep unattainable.
Typically roof rats are the black rat.
Roof rats can be dangerous they carry disease.
These droppings may be near the dropped eaten fruit mentioned in 1.
Infamous for once spreading the bubonic plague to europe black rats are one of the world s most successful and widespread species living anywhere humans do.
Once you have identified that you have roof rats you can work to eliminate rats from your property in the following ways.