Welcome! Scranton Rodent Exterminator is a full-service rodent control company specializing in the permanent removal of mice and rats in Scranton, PA. Whether you have a problem with mice in your attic, rats in your walls, or rodents scratching in your house, we can solve it! The key to PERMANENT rodent control lies in our inspection and preventative work - we seal the rats and mice out of your house forever, and we trap and remove them. We do not use poison! We answer our phone 24/7, and can schedule a same-day or next day appointment. Some of the services we offer include:

Scranton's Best Rodent Removal: It was three years back when our rat removal company came into existence with the idea of providing reliable services at flexible hours to those who're annoyed with rats infesting their property. We're a family-run business with the core values of delivering value for money, customer satisfaction, and to stay focused on earning customer trust above all else. Although we work to eliminate pests, rats, snakes, bats, and other wildlife animals that aren't welcome in certain places, we're strictly against animal cruelty and any practice that may cause harm to an animal. Our humane and strictly professional procedure of Rat Removal involves locating the creature in your property. For this purpose, we use advanced equipment and expert techniques. Once the nasty creatures have been located, the next step of our team is to capture each and every one of them, even the small babies. Because if even a single rat is left, it can continue causing damage to your assets. Further, we seal all the entryways that rats may have to proof your property against any sort of infestation in the future. Not just this, but we also offer discreet visits and can come to check no rats are roaming around your home, office, or apartment. The best part about our Rat Removal services is that we don't charge on an hourly basis, rather our expert team would stay at your service as long as the animal hasn't been captured. What do we do with the captured rats? We believe in environmentally-friendly solutions so killing or poisoning is never an option. All the rats, snakes, skunks, squirrels, or any other wildlife animal captured is released into its natural habitat without any harm caused. In addition to this, if the animal gets hurt during the process, we provide it with proper treatment and free the creature after it has regained its health. Call us now to order our expert Rat Removal services!

We Pennsylvania's top experts in rodent control. We are not a typical Scranton rat removal or pest control company. We don't treat rats or mice like insects, because they are not - they are mammals! You can't just use poison to get rid of them, like you can with insects. Unlike most Scranton pest control, we focus on complete and permanent solutions. We don't just use poison every month. We solve your rodent problem forever, by following these steps:

• Inspect the entire house, ground to roof, and the attic
• Seal shut all entry areas, no matter how small, with steel
• Set a dozen or more rat or mouse traps in the house and attic
• Remove all rodents as they are caught and monitor for activity
• Once there is no more activity and no more caught, we're done
• When necessary, we clean rodent droppings, replace insulation, and repair chewed electric wires

Scranton Rodent Removal Tip:

Do rats eat cheese? Do they like it?
Rats will eat pretty much anything you put down for them. You could actually use almost anything you liked as bait, although it must be remembered that even the tastiest treat isn't going to be enough to get the most trap-shy of rats into trap. If you've already tried trapping rats yourself, there's a good chance you will have already discovered this for yourself.

Rats are scavengers. This puts them in the same animal bracket as wolves, coyotes, raccoons, leopards, hyenas, opossums, skunks, and more. They are animals that scavenge in whatever has been left around in, in terms of dead plant or animal matter. Raccoons, for example, are renowned for knocking over garbage cans to get inside to human leftovers. This could be food that was left over from today's dinner, or food that has turned bad that was hiding in the back of your cupboards for a few weeks. Scavengers aren't really fussy. In many cases, scavengers, particularly opossum and raccoons, will be hit by passing vehicles as they try to feast on animals in the middle of the road, that have also become victims of a car-animal conflict.

Being creatures that will eat virtually anything, you could put down anything for the rats as bait. There are a few foods that you should probably avoid. Fresh foods are likely to go bad quickly, and this will be more so the case in the summer when the temperature is hotter. Cheese is a food that will go bad quickly when left out in a trap, and food that goes bad will need to be replaced. Unless you can be sure that your traps will be checked and bait replaced very regularly, do not put fresh food in there. This means that meat, cooked, raw, or frozen, shouldn't be used, alongside cheese and other dairy produce.

You could consider using fresh fruit or vegetables in your trap, again, because the rat really will eat anything that you leave out for it. If you are leaving sweet foods out, such as strawberries, other berries, or even jam on toast, you must be prepared for other animals, including insects, that will likely come flooding in. Wasps and bees are well-known for their love of all things sweet, and the same can be said for ants too. Even if you don't opt for something sweet, using fresh vegetables instead perhaps, you are still running the risk of attracting flies and then potentially even maggots.

To put it quite simply — don't use fresh produce, such as cheese, in rat traps. There are much better solutions.

What to use as bait in rat traps:
What's the first thing a rat or mouse will tear right into when it manages to sneak into your kitchen? Isn't It's always the breakfast cereal that you have for the kids in the top cupboard? Or bread, nibbled holes in plastic and crumbs everywhere to give the game away. The best thing to use for bait in rat or mouse traps is not cheese (or other fresh produce), but grains. These are the food sources these rodents seem to make a bee line for every time they break into your house. If it's worth breaking into a house for, it might just be worth sneaking into a trap for ...

What to do about trap-shy rats:
Trap-shy rats will avoid traps at ALL costs. It doesn't matter what kind of food you put down for the rodent, it just won't go anywhere near the trap.

Why?

It's probably already been trapped, seen a group member fall prey to a trap, or narrowly avoided being caught in a trap itself. These creatures are smart. Much smarter than we often give them credit for. Rats and many other animals are fully capable of problem solving to a degree, and learning to avoid a trap when the last one caught your friend and killed him is staying-alive-101.

Animals, including rats, WILL learn to avoid traps/ this is live cage trapping of many wild creatures isn't a valid animal control solution. When you trap an animal and then release it again, you are teaching it a lesson: Traps are bad. Avoid them at all costs.

Trap-shy rats (and other wild animals) can still be trapped, but you do need to go about things a slightly different way. You should first start to lay traps that haven't been set. After a few days, once the rat thinks that the new metal contraptions are just part of the scenery, you can then add food (bait) to the equation but, still, you must actually set the traps. The rat(s) must be given the time to get comfortable with the trap, understand that it isn't going to go snap and hurt/kill it, and, therefore, eating the bait from the trap is safe.

When the rat is comfortable (after a few days/nights), add the bait, set the trap properly this time, and then wait for it to do the job. You MUST allow sufficient time for the rat to become accustomed to the rat trap before you set it. One easy trick that you can use to find out whether or not the rat is braving the trap area is to use some sprinkled flour. The disturbed white powder will show tiny paw prints if the rat is hanging out in that area. Of course, if the bait has been taken from the trap, that's a good indication that the rat has been there too, although it might take a few days for that to be the case.


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