Rodents: New Member of your Family

Rats and mice cause 8% of all house and building fires in the U.S. In U.S. average 1.6 million home and building catch fires each year. In the last 10 years, more than 194,000 people have been injured in home and building fires, and almost 37,000 people have died. Rodents started 8% of all these fires by chewing through electrical wiring and causing a short circuit. Plastic insulation surrounding electrical wiring exists because electricity is quite hot when it goes through wires. The insulation protects nearby objects from getting overheated. However, when a rat or other rodent has been going after your wires, they leave nothing left but the hot, exposed metal. From there, it’s only a matter of time before the wire either short circuits, causing a spark, or heats up and causes something nearby to ignite. Usually, household insulation or other debris that are stirred up by the rodents are what sets fire.

In the U.S., 30% of all homes contain unwanted rodents. In fact, these rats and mice are known as ‘commensal’ rodents. The term means ‘eating at the same table with’ humans, and they’re called that because they thrive in close proximity to people.

All rodents have prominent, continually growing incisor teeth. Because these teeth never stop growing, rats and mice find pleasure gnawing every day to wear down their teeth. If they don’t, the incisors grow too big to gnaw food, and they can´t feed properly. That’s why they like to make their home where there’s plenty to chew on: between walls, in drop ceilings and subfloors, in attics and garages, behind appliances, and in pantries. 

One pair of mice can make 15,000 more mice in just one year. In addition to starting fires, rats and mice carry 35 known diseases, some of them are fatal, so it’s important to get them out of your home pronto. The solutions such as poison and traps are dangerous to children and pets, leave a mess for you to clean up, and don’t work all that well. 

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Monster rats the size of CATS are roaming the streets – and they aren’t afraid of humans

  • Giant rats have been running wild through a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand
  • One man saw six to 10 rats running up a bank, 30 metres from the shops
  • The infestation is said to be a result of locals feeding the wild chickens 

By Charlotte Karp For Daily Mail Australia | 13 June 2019

Giant rats that are as big as cats are terrorizing people in Auckland – and they aren’t afraid of humans, locals say.   

The monster rodents are running wild through Auckland, New Zealand, and authorities are struggling to get the situation under control, Stuff reported.

A local woman said she had to get rats removed from her roof and that she’d seen rats running up the road for the first time in 11 years, while local man Rob Wadmore managed to record the animals running around near a car park.

‘I saw an estimate of about six to 10 rats running up the bank, they didn’t seem scared of human beings .. they were 30 metres from the shops,’ Mr Wadmore said.

RATTED OUT 

Family-of-five driven out of their home by plague of ‘2ft long’ U-bend swimming monster rats

The 36-year-old dad says he saw one of the enormous rats swimming back up the toilet

By Annabel Murphy16th April 2019

A FAMILY have been driven out of their home by a plague of U-bend swimming monster rats.

John Rising, 36, said he and partner Joanne had no option but to quit the rented home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with their three sons.

He said they were terrified that the rodents, some nearly 2ft long, would bite them and spread a killer disease with their germs and urine.

John has killed several rats but says more infest the mid-terrace property rented from Cheltenham Borough Homes.

He said: “It started about two months ago and it’s got so bad that we have moved out because the rats were in the kitchen.

“About a month ago my 14-year-old son was in the bathroom and saw one actually in the toilet.

“He called me and I rushed to have a look. I could see the rat’s tail and bum swimming back out of toilet, back up the U-bend.”

C Tech Corporation has come up with a solution called Rodrepel™ which will put people at ease by protecting their house from rats and mice. Rodrepel™ is a product resulting from smart technology and green chemistry. Rodrepel™ is an extremely low-toxic, extremely low hazardous and environment-friendly aversive and repels all rodents/animals. It is an anti-rodent aversive specially developed for a range of polymeric applications including films, wires, cables, etc. It is also available in the liquid Concentrate form which can be mixed with the paints and lacquer which can be coated on the surface to keep the rodents at bay. Rodents are further restricted from biting the applications treated with our products due to advanced mechanisms.

The newly developed product is in the form of a spray which can be sprayed on any surface to protect it from pest damage. The spray is compatible with most of the surfaces.

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Protecting your garden from gophers

Gophers live underground and are active all year round. They spend almost all their time in underground tunnel systems, and you might be unaware that gophers are living under your turf unless you see a gopher hole and mound.

Gophers are especially destructive yard pests, as their behavior targets both plants and soil. The first signs of gopher damage are usually the numerous dirt mounds they make all over yards. They dig one to three mounds per day and average 70 per month as they burrow hundreds of feet of tunnels underground. 

Gophers are extremely well adapted and built for an underground existence. The gopher lives most of its life beneath the surface where it digs a burrow system. A gopher can create large mounds that may cause damage to passing farm equipment. Additionally, its tunnels often interfere with underground utilities, irrigation and sprinkler systems, dams, fields, and homeowners’ gardens. 

Pocket gophers are destructive diggers that can be a nightmare for property owners. They use their sharp claws and teeth to excavate underground tunnels and burrows, which can quickly lead to extreme lawn damage. 

Gophers are highly active in the spring and summer. They cause damage to the lawns and plants due to burrow systems that contain 500 or more tunnels that are 6″ to 1′ in depth. They can also cause damage to the slope by undermining erosion. Gophers have teeth that are capable of gnaw-damage to water lines and sprinkler systems. They are solitary and, compared to other pests, are relatively slow breeders.

Go away gophers: Calgary homeowners frustrated with rodents

May 22, 2019

Richardson’s ground squirrels are native to North America and are a constant problem for homeowners in the City of Calgary.

Calgary’s long winter is over and many people are enjoying the sunshine but there are some unwelcome residents among many gardens too.

Gophers or Richardson’s ground squirrels may look cute to the casual observer but experts in the pest control field say the rodents are a big nuisance.

“They do a lot of damage by tunneling. They go about one metre deep and just do a lot of destruction when they burrow,” says Conrad Mueller, president of Absolute Pest Control.

Strychnine ban for gophers pondered

By Barb Glen │August 9, 2018 

Health Canada proposes to end the use of strychnine to control ground squirrels and is seeking public input on the matter until Sept. 27. | File photo

Health Canada proposes to end the use of strychnine to control ground squirrels and is seeking public input on the matter until Sept. 27.

The proposal stems from a regular review of pesticides under the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.

In its consultation document, Health Canada said strychnine kills ground squirrels, also commonly called gophers, but it also kills non-target species that might eat either the poison-treated grain used to attract gophers or scavengers that eat the dead rodents.

Trapping is not the appropriate way to deal with these gophers. Usage of smoke balls is extremely lethal.

C Tech Corporation provides you with an eco-friendly solution against gophers. Our product RodrepelTM is an extremely low toxic, extremely low hazard, non-mutagenic anti-rodent, and animal aversive repellent. It can be effectively used against gophers and other similar damage causing rodents like voles, moles, rats, etc.

RodrepelTM is a product manufactured based on green technology. Our product is RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, NEA, APVMA, EU BPR compliant, and FIFRA exempted which proves the low toxic and environmental safety concerns.

RodrepelTM  is available in the form of masterbatch, liquid concentrate and lacquer.

RodrepelTM Masterbatch is incorporated while processing in polymer-based products such as drip irrigation pipes, electric supply cables, etc.

RodrepelTM Liquid concentrate is to be mixed in paints in proper proportion and RodrepelTM lacquer is a direct topcoat application which can be applied on fences, installed products, walls, pipes, etc.

If you are facing nuisance caused by rodents, write about it to us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com

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