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No, real rats. It seems to be something restricted to California. Friends and family there all have their stories about roof rats as well as rats hanging out in trees. Sometimes you will see date palms in California with a metal band around...
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Go to home depot and buy a few packs of rat poison. They sell various kinds, so I would try some of each. The best kind of poison contains a desiccant that dries the rats out to prevent them from smelling when they die. The last thing you w...
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Roof rats throughout Maricopa County continue to be tested for tularemia (rabbit fever), hantavirus and plague. All tests to date have been negative.
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The Black Rat (Rattus rattus) (alt. Asian black rat, Ship Rat, Roof Rat, House Rat, Alexandrine Rat, Old English Rat) is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus (rats) in the subfamily Murinae (murine rodents). The species originate...
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Roof rats were first discovered in east Phoenix Arcadia neighborhoods in 2002. They are not native to Arizona and may have been transported to Maricopa County from one of our neighboring coastal states. Roof rats can carry disease, but thos...
http://www.cityofphoenix.gov/GARBAGE/rats2.html
We live in Peoria (north) and think the schools are ok. The high school (Sunrise Mountain) was rated highly when we were looking for a place to land. The elementary school in our development (Vistancia) has been receiving high marks from th...
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Both types of rats chew on car wiring and electrical wiring throughout the house, which can quickly turn into a fire hazard. Roof rats tear up insulation for nesting material, while pack rats live in small, dark places like underneath the h...
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With all the construction going on in Foster City, rats are indeed on the move. The San Mateo County Office of Environmental Health has many tips on how to get rid of these pesky critters. Give them a call at (650) 363-4305 for more info, o...
http://www.fostercity.org/FAQs/Roof-Rats.cfm
Yes, there are. The rat outbreak first occurred in the Phoenix area in 2001 when they appeared in the Arcadia neighborhood in east Phoenix. As of this writing (March 2004) there have been confirmed roof rat sightings in Phoenix, Tempe, Glen...
http://phoenix.about.com/cs/desert/a/roofrat01.htm
Years ago we were prowling around an old tumble-down little house in a beach community in Cent Calif (had an old rustbucket Willys-Knight in 4-5' tall grass and brush)... Noticed a big fat glossy black rat on the roof; he/she followed us co...
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