We only have them in the Fall, for a week or so (til we get the whole family). My next door neighbor admitted to the problem as well (there is a heavily crowned vetched hillside behind our backyards...thats where they come from). They had Orkin come...and used some kind of blue pellets. True story. Never had then seen evidence in their upper kichen cabinets (only in their basement, under the kitchen sink, and a loosely cover plate of sweets on the kitchen counter). They spent several hundred dollars for the pro to come and spread these pellets in places where their dog couldn't get to them. After several days, my neighbor Bill discovered a BLUE PELLET IN HIS COFFEE MUG (which was stored in the wall cabinet where the mice had never been before). It was kind like an 'in your face, f-you' kinda move from the rodents. And no other cup, bowl, mug...just his. They purchased the large size sticky pads too...and he bought the bobcat urine as well (I wonder if I could become a vendor, LOL).
Bump to your post.
I am a 10 percent bleach spray bottle believer myself.
Those rats are smart but mean little buggers.
I wonder with the ice storms in the midwest how invasive their rats are right now.
And with the flooding/mudslides here in Oregon I see the folks on the news stories knocking out sheet rock to repair before mold sets in and all I can think is the rats I bet are moving in while ya’ll repair them walls.
Our local news is calling all the national bad weather “of Biblical preportions”.
That is why I like KATU they don’t buy into the Al Gore Mother Earth bull crap.