Rodent Facts
 
  • Rats can jump 2 Feet Straight Up!
 
  • Rats can jump 4 Feet Horizontally!
 
  • A rat can drop down 50 feet without injury!
 
  • Water doesn't stop Norway rats. They can swim as far as 1/2 mile in open water, dive through water plumbing traps and travel in sewer lines, even against strong water currents!
 
  • Each year, rodents cause more than one billion dollars in damage in the United States alone!
 
  • Rats transmit Murine typhus fever, rat bite fever, salmonellosis (or bacterial food poisoning), Weils disease (or leptospirosis and trichinosis), melioidosid, brucellosis, tuberculosis, pasteurellosis, rickettsial diseases, and viral diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease. Norway rats can also carry the rabies virus
 
  • Black Death - Disaster Strikes:
 
25 million people died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352 Plague is a zoonotic disease circulating mainly among small animals and their fleas. The bacteria Yersinia pestis can also infect humans. It is transmitted between animals and humans by the bite of infected fleas, direct contact, inhalation and rarely, ingestion of infective materials.
Plague is endemic in many countries in Africa, in the former Soviet Union, the Americas and Asia. In 2003, 9 countries reported 2118 cases and 182 deaths. 98.7% of those cases and 98.9% of those deaths were reported from Africa.
Rodent activity used to be more prevalent in the winter, but as the rat, mouse, and squirrel populations have grown, rodents have become a problem all year long. Squirrels and other furry friends such as raccoons, opossums, mice and rats look for warm, cozy areas to nest. Your attic has everything necessary.
Now is the time to have your attic inspected. Your attic is absolutely perfect! All that insulation, you paid extra to have blown in, makes great nesting material.
Call a professional for animal trapping, removal and sealing your home or business so that rodents can't return