Welcome to Pest Animal Washington DC! We are a wildlife removal company servicing Washington DC. Why should you hire us? We pride ourselves on our humane approach to wildlife control. We never use poisons, we use live cage traps, and we attempt to perform exclusions and preventative methods whenever possible. We can remove animals from your home that cause damage or a hazard to health, although our top specialties include removing bat colonies from attics, as well as squirrels, rats, raccoons, opossums, skunks, and more. We’ll never use poisons - they’re ineffective and dangerous for your family and pets - and if relocation is required, we make sure that we do so as far away as necessary. In some cases this can be over ten miles or more. We are available for emergency critter removal, such as when an animal gets inside your house, and our 24/7 manned phones will usually be able to make you a same-day appointment. We perform dead animal removal services, from inside buildings and outside, and odor control services too, and all for a friendly and competitively-priced service that you’ll remember for all the right reasons. If you’ve got a pest problem, we can sort it. Just give us a call for a free quote today. Call us now at 202-919-4252 for your Washington DC wildlife control needs.
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How to Get Rats out of Your Attic
Rats in the attic are a serious threat to safety and health of the entire household. Regardless
of the type or the number of Washington DC rats, these rodents are capable of both compromising the infrastructure
of a home and transferring infections and deceases to humans and animals around them. There are several
ways in which rats manage to get inside of an attic. Whether the wooden structure is damaged or rotten,
or nearby tree branches allowed them to climb on top of the roof, once these District of Columbia animals find their way in,
they are hard to get rid.
Signs of rats in the attic show early in the case of infestation. You will know that rats have inhabited your
attic, at first, by strange noises that come from your attic and walls. Second, you might experience power
issues due to rats chewing on cables and wires. It could also happen that your cable TV and internet
connection start glitching.
1. Determine rat entry spots
One of the most important steps to take when exterminating Washington DC rats from your attic is to prevent the infestation
from getting worse. You also want to prevent more rats from getting inside your attic after you have already
got rid of them. To secure your home from getting infected multiple times, and also to be able to determine
which spots in your home are rats using to get inside. Look for any holes and gaps in your attic and pay
special attention to spots that are surrounded by rat feces. Once you manage to discover spots that rats
have used to get inside your attic, seal all but one remaining hole. This hole will serve for rats who have
maybe left their younglings behind to get back inside. Under any circumstances, you should not seal all the
gaps in your attic because female District of Columbia rats might not be able to reach their babies. If this happens, you will
end up with dead rat corpses inside your attic or walls.
2. Determine the number and type of the rats
Estimating the size of the infestation is important if you want to remove all the existing rest. You are going
to have to observe rats for several days and note details about their behavior. Note the number of rats, presence
of any pregnant females or rat babies if you want to be able to remove all of the rats from your attic. You will
use this information to decide on a number of traps you want to buy, or if you even want to handle the removal by
yourself or hire expert help. If you decide that there are too many District of Columbia rats for you to trap and remove by yourself,
you can always hire an animal or pest removal company available in your area.
3. Determine the rat’s route
It is most likely that, by the time you’ve discovered that your home is infested with Washington DC rats, the rodents have already
established routes they use to move around and look for food. It is important for you to discover these spots. If you
want to trap and remove rats from your attic properly, you should inspect and note their route. This means that you
should inspect for spots that District of Columbia rats use to move around your attic. You will be able to discover these spots if you look
for spots that contain the biggest amounts of rat feces. These will be the places you should use to place the
traps.