Poison-Free Rat and Mouse Removal

Why we don’t use poison

Poison is the fastest way to make a rat problem worse in a house. A rodent that eats bait doesn’t die on the spot. It often crawls back into a wall, attic or crawl space first, which is where the smell comes from a few days later. The bait also moves up the food chain: pets, owls and hawks that eat a poisoned rodent can be poisoned too, which is why California now restricts the strongest anticoagulant rat poisons.

Trapping takes more work to set up and is a lot more certain. We place traps where the inspection shows activity, check them, remove what they catch and reset them. You know what was caught, and nothing is left to rot out of reach.

Trapping works best once the house is sealed. Trap a house with open entry points and new rodents replace the old ones. That’s why our trapping runs as a cycle after exclusion, not instead of it.