PARTIAL
LIST OF ANCILLARY RAT FACTS:
- Rats are the dominant rodent of over 2,000 species known to exist.
The U.S. rat population is estimated to exceed 1.25 billion
(1,250,000,000), concentrated in the lower one-third of the United
States. Two species of infesting rats represent over 92
percent of rodents:
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Roof rats living
high in colonies (nests) and climbing DOWN to food and water. |
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Norway rats living
low in burrows and climbing UP to food and water.
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- HABITAT: RATS WILL INFEST ANYWHERE,
INDOORS AND/OR OUTDOORS, AND THRIVE.
- BIRTHRATE: A “mated pair” of rats (one male and one female) from January
1st will create a population of 6,250 rats (experts say it could reach over
13,000) by December 31st of the same year under optimum conditions.
- INVASIVE: rats are invasive by their inherent behavior. The need to
invade a facility increases during fall and winter seasons.
- TEETH HARDNESS: Rats' teeth are just below steel on the “Rockwell
Hardness Scale.” This hardness, and the constant growth of their
lower teeth to up to six inches per year, leads to their inherent
behavior to gnaw into any facility chewing property on the way.
- “Exclusion” is a method that is used by pest control operators
to seal up holes in a facility to keep rats out. It “fails” in the
face of the hardness of their teeth and their inherent behavior to
invade.
- NOCTURNAL: Rats are a nocturnal animal that is very secretive, choosing
not to be seen. Adult rats are rarely ever seen. Adolescent rats are
seen occasionally when the level of infestation in a facility is at a
Level 10, the highest level. Adolescent rats, although larger in size
than mice, are often mistaken for mice. A common statement that is
often made by those with a rat infestation is, “we don’t have rats
because I have never seen them!” Rats' secretive behavior is how
they've survived in close quarters with Man since the dawn of time.
- INTELLIGENCE: Rats possess a high level of intelligence allowing
them to understand situations, make judgments, make choices…including
causing them to know what are natural deaths among the members of
their colony and what are unnatural (caused by poisons, etc…). Their
tremendous sense of smell can determine if a dead rat from their
colony has been poisoned, as they can smell the poison on the skin of
the deceased rat. This results in the colony avoiding anything that
smells the same, leading to what is known as “bait shyness.”
- COMMUNICATION: Many experts take the
position that rats can “talk” to each other. The chirps they make
is a form of communication and is what is often heard in infested
facilities by the occupants, usually at night.
- ATHLETICISM: Rats are very athletic in
all respects including being fast, agile, and able to jump in place to
great heights (standing high jump) and have the capability of
completing an amazing standing broad jump. They are prolific climbers,
able to swim long distances, and amazingly able to tread water in
water that is ten degrees below their body temperature for three days,
with no hypothermia.
- COLONY: Rats live in social colonies,
indoors and outdoors. The social colonies are very well organized with
each one being totally independent from the others, Rats living
indoors in colonies are “commensal rats.” Rats living outdoors are
“wild rats." After two generations of rats in a facility, rats
become fully commensal and they think the infested facility is the
universe. Colonies indoors make up the collective total rat population
in the infested facility. Each colony has no interaction with the
others. Any encroachment of one colony (rat) into another colony leads
to a vicious territorial fire-fight. Rats travel from their colony
to/from food and water sources on ingress/egress paths. In their
colony, rats will groom and social groom 20 percent of their waking
hours creating that which is key to Rat Elimination - the “social
grooming effect.”
- RATS ARE A DISEASE VECTOR: Rats can
carry over forty-three known diseases on their skin and in their
digestive tract. They can carry these diseases into an infested
facility to the detriment of the occupants. The most legendary of
these diseases is the Black Plague.
- ECONOMIC LOSS (PROPERTY LOSS EXAMPLES):
There any many examples of property losses created by rats as a result
of consumption and contamination. Among them are expert stats that “Rat
cumulative damage/destruction of grain losses alone exceed $19 Billion
($19,000,000.000) annually.” Food sent to third world countries are
eaten and contaminated by rats to the extent that only 20 percent of
what had been sent actually arrives intact. Calculations of losses of
food from production at farms, storage and food processing facilities
result in less that “50 percent” of the food that started with
farm’s plantings going through the whole process to finally arrive
on the dinner plate, because of rats consumption and contamination.
- Rats and mice do NOT commingle. Rats
will quickly eliminate and eat mice entering their space, called a
"campus," which does not exceed 90,000 square feet per
colony.
- Rats poisoned by pest control operators
with their equipment, such as poison bait stations, has rats leaving the
housing with poison carried in their cheeks to return to the colony
(nest) for consumption. It is well researched that if rats are
startled in the process, they will spit out the poison bait into the
open environment risking, and often resulting in, consumption of the
bait by children and animals.
- In an infested facility rats consuming
poison bait has, as their inherent behavior, to seek a closed space to
die in such as a wall section. This causes the rats to decay in the
facility leading to noxious odors.
- Ingress/egress paths are the established
rat travel paths in an infested facility that rats travel between rat
colonies (nests) and food and water sources.
- Rats will attack and kill cats if
challenged in an infested facility. Cats can deal with mice but not
rats.
- Using food baits with poison (poison
bait) or food bait as an attractant to try to draw rats to poison bait
stations, snap traps and glue boards is a behavior modification
method. It is well researched that behavior modification as a method
with rats FAILS.
- The “Principal of Intersection” is a
technique with delivery housings used on rats’ ingress/egress paths,
based on rats’ inherent behavior, at key locations on the Master
Grid.
- “Multiple Grooming Effect” is an
inherent behavior rats exhibit in their colony (nest) occupying 20% of
their waking hours.
- Rats will store poison bait they collect
in a poison bait station in their cheek, to be consumed when they
return to their colony (nest). If startled during the return trip to
their colony (nest), their inherent behavior is to pass feces and
urine while expelling the poison bait held in their cheek into the
open environment. It is well researched and subsequently reported that
poison bait in the open environment risks being found by children and
animals to be ingested as a food (poison bait) leading to serious
health consequences, including death.
- Seeds are used in an elimination system
to reward rats for traveling Delivery Housings located on their
ingress/egress travel paths on the Master Grid. Seeds are not used as an
attractant to try to employ the failed behavior modification
technique.
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