ROOF RATS... ICK

ROOF RATS... ICK! Yep it's that time of year again, the roof rats are back! Keeping roof rats out of your home and yard is very important and much easier to prevent them from coming in than to get them to move out!
Here are some warning signs:

• Hollowed out citrus, especially still on the tree
• gnaw marks around roof eaves
• unsettled pets
• droppings (elongated 1/4 inch long)
• sounds in attics and walls
• damage to plastics and electrical wires

What to do, guidelines to secure your home:

• seal any access into your house
• thin and manicure lush landscape
• eliminate food and water sources
• set out and maintain traps and /or poison bait stations
• inform your immediate neighbors of the problem

Bait stations are available at Tempe Tack & Feed located on University just west of Hardy. Use these in landscape with the "just one bite" poison.

For more information go to :

www.tempe.gov/neighborhoods/roofratsinfo

www.roofrat.net

for more information call (602) 273-0435