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The Santa Clarita pest control company Unipest is offering the community DIY tips on how to properly set rat traps during the winter season.
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With what are known as “roof rats” common in the Santa Clarita Valley during rainy and cold weather, Owner Cardon Ellis made a video entitled “How to Set a Rat Trap Like a Professional.”
“All the time I get calls from customers that have been overrun (with rats) once it starts raining,” said Ellis. “I’ll go out, and they actually have purchased maybe the correct traps, or at least my favorite brand of traps, and they attempt it for awhile, but they’ve just done it incorrectly so they haven’t gotten results.”
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Ellis recommends regular Victor rat traps that typically cost about $1 each, but noted that simply adding bait and laying them out isn’t enough — it’s “a whole process.”
“People forget rats are neophobic, which means they are afraid of new things,” Ellis explained. “So you need to acclimate them to the traps. They need to be accustomed to them first before you all of a sudden start trying to actually snap them to death.”
To a rat, a bait-filled trap can be compared to a strange package arriving at your house with 10 pounds of free beef jerky inside, according to Ellis.
“You may love beef jerky, but the fact that it was just presented in your lap by this unknown source — would you just dive in?” he said. “No. You’d be suspicious of it.”
To find out how to properly set a rat trap in under three minutes, click here for the Unipest video.
Ed. Note: This article is a KHTS Community Spotlight based on a recent radio interview with Unipest.The Santa Clarita pest and termite control company Unipest is the premiere residential and commercial pest control company for Los Angeles County. If you’re looking for pest or termite control in Santa Clarita or surrounding areas, Unipest prides itself on being your one-stop solution, and offer orange oil treatments, bee hive removal, fumigation, escrow inspections, removal of bed bugs, organic pest control and more. Residents and business owners are encouraged to call Unipest for immediate assistance!
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