Rats can make their homes in the most filthy parts of any city, the sewers. Here are some things that you may not know about these rats.
- We are vaccinating rats by feeding them rat poison that doesn’t kill them but actually helps them mutate to be poison resistant.
- A female rat gives birth to over 81 mischief (babies) a year.
- Sewer rats survived atomic bomb tests in the 1940 .
- Sewer rats can damage the foundation of buildings by digging their burrows.
- Sewer rats can sense danger – so they will try to escape, lie low and return when it is safe.
- They practice their own population control by eating young or weaker rats.
- They eat only eat 10% of their body weight at any meal and hoard food in their underground burrows.
- They can gnaw through plastic pipes, irrigation systems, garbage cans, wood boxes, dry wall, and even concrete.
- Rats make their nests on the debris you flush down the toilet
- As well as swimming and burrowing, rats can climb up vertical walls if the surface isn’t too smooth.
- At any given time, you probably aren’t more then six feet away from a rat.https://gogreenpestcontrol.ca/rats-living-in-sewers/gogreenpestcontrol.ca insectandrodentexterminators.com Delta Ladner Tsawwassen B.C. Randy Bilesky BsF CPA RPF
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