What you ll want to look for are any signs that the rats are present including droppings tracks gnaw marks burrows runways and rodent sounds.
Roof rat poison.
Another difference is that the roof rat is more slender with a longer tail than the norway rat.
Get rid of roof rats in four basic steps.
Step 1 in order to assess the severity of the rat problem and to get a better idea of where to bait and trap you will first need to perform a thorough inspection of the premises.
Killing rats with poison involves efforts mess and potential danger to children or pets in the house.
The roof rat also called gray bellied rat white bellied rat alexandrine rat black rat and ship rat.
If you don t want to cause unnecessary pain you may want to try some natural rat repellents to get rid of the cheeky rodents in the roof without poison.
I put out bait boxes which are boxes that secure the bait inside.
In most cases rat poison takes two to three days to kill the rodent provided that it consumed enough of the poison for it to stay active in the rat s bloodstream and gut.
Its good for attracting rodents and also easy to mount on bait stations.
This rat poison block is multi edges and within a single feeding it kills roof rats house mice and rodents pretty well.