Pest Control Q&A

Rats and mice are important rodent pests entering homes and warehouses for food and harborage. These rodents like food that people eat and this is why Contrac® All-weather Blox® Rodenticide works. They contaminate 10 times as much food as they eat, with urine, droppings and hair. They can carry at least 10 different kinds of diseases including bubonic plague, murine typhus, spirochetal jaundice, Leptospirosis, rabies, ratbite fever, and bacterial food poisoning. Many times rats bite sleeping children while trying to get bits of food on the child that were not washed off before going to bed. Rats and mice also start fires by gnawing matches and electrical wires in homes.

House mice normally live outdoors in fields, occasionally migrating into structures. In houses, they live behind walls and in cabinets and furniture. House mice are brown to gray in color with the tail as long as the body. Adults weigh about 1/2 ounce. Their droppings are 1/8 inch long and rod-shaped. The movement of rats and mice is usually related to food, water, or harborage. Knowing where they are likely to go is important to controlling them.

Rats use any method to get to food, water or harborage. Their excellent sense of balance enables them to run on pipes, narrow ledges, and utility wires. Rats, especially roof rats, will climb anything their claws will hold on to, including wires, pipes, and rough walls. Because rats are excellent swimmers, they often live in sewers and occasionally enter homes through toilets.

Recognizing Rat and Mouse Signs

Since rats and mice are active at night and are rarely seen during the day, it is necessary to recognize signs of their activity.

Droppings and Urine – Most people first recognize rodent problems by finding droppings or urine stains in and around buildings. The urine glows under ultraviolet lights and glows blue-white when fresh.

Sanitation - Good housekeeping or sanitation is a basic factor in rodent control. Eliminating food, water, and harborage for rats and mice can reduce rodent populations rapidly. To implement sanitation practices:

• Clean up garbage and rubbish.
• Properly store garbage (Metal garbage cans should have tight fitting lids).
• Properly store food (store raw or prepared foods and refuse indoors in covered, rat proof containers or in rat proof rooms).
• Store pet food and bird seed in rat proof containers.
• Remove harborages (remove piles of rubbish, trash, junk, boxes, and protected enclosures).
• Dry up sources of water.

Hello, This is a video on the EarthCare odor remover bag we shot while at PESTEX 2009 in England and thought you would enjoy it. 

Watch the video below and you won’t believe what David says at the very end.  Poor guy, you know he’ll be in a heap of trouble when he gets home.

But, as a professional David knows exactly how to eliminate dead rodent odors, so we’ll keep sending this favorite EarthCare natural Odor Remover to his new condo until he’s let back into his home. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvITC3kEko

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvITC3kEko 

Over the past 17 years, EarthCare Products have solved thousands of odor challenges from dead rodents to skunks to nasty urine odors. 

Pest Control Operators having tried many other solutions in the past without success are elated after trying EarthCare with the results they’ve achieved. 

We look forward to answering questions about how Earthcare can eliminate the worst odor problems you have, and generate additional revenue to you and your company and increase your profits. Imagine the possibilities.

 

Call me today, I am awaiting your call.

 

Bill Vaughan

 

Earth Care Products

 

www.cleartheair.com

 

Ph: 760 941-5302

 

Email: earthcare@msn.com

 

Our product is available at most Pest Control Distributors

 

PS: Thought you might be interested to learn what others are saying; read below.

 

 

 

From Thomas Smith, tacsmith@acusd.edu, May 10, 1999

 

Re: Skunk Spray

 

Sirs:  Yesterday I ordered a substantial quantity of your products in the hopes it will help me solve a terrible problem we have had with skunks.  About 6 months ago at least 2 skunks got into our attic.  One sprayed when it was caught in a rat trap and another sprayed for some other reason.  The whole house stank.  The smell got into our upstairs ductwork.  I have tried everything to get rid of the smell, with very limited success.  Enzyme products such as Simple Solution have done only a little good.  We had the ducts cleaned, which helped not at all.

 

 

 

A couple days later:

 

I received your products and immediately put one bag in the return air duct, one in my boys’ room’s closet, and one in the master BR closet.  The granules I spread around in the attic using all 9 lbs.  Within 2 hours, probably less in fact, the smell which has hounded us for 6 months was gone!  I cannot tell you how grateful I am.  As you may have inferred, the smell was just driving me nuts.

 

 

 

I feel like we have our house back.  After all I have been through, and all the money I have spent trying to solve this problem, I can truly say, you have an amazing product that does what it claims to do.  Please feel free to use my name and testimonial.

 

Very gratefully yours,

 

Thomas A. Smith

 

Jamul, California

 

 

 

 

 

From Laurie Wheeler, 9/7/05, LWHEELER@INTRUSION.COM

 

Dear Earth Care employees,

 

 

 

First I would like to commend you for your outstanding service; my item arrived speedily. I had ordered the Odor Removal Bag because our cats had dragged in some critters while we were gone for a few days and with the ac turned up to 80 degrees one of the dead animals was already decomposing and had leaked stinky body liquids. You can only imagine the smell! I hung up the bag in the offending room and no more stink! Thank you so much for your wonderful product. I hope to never have a need for another one but if I do I will certainly know who to order from!

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Laurie Wheeler

 

 

 

 

 

Odor Removing Bag

 

MayraP1@aol.com

 

Our pest control person recently blocked some places in our house where rats were coming in and out of our garage.  Apparently one or more got trapped in the walls and have died there.  The smell has been horrendous.  Our daughter in law had a similar problem and her pest control person gave her one of your bags.  She says it worked perfectly.  I need to get some ASAP and wanted to know if there is a place in Los Angeles where I can go and purchase them since ordering them would take a few days to receive.

 

 

 

Please let me know.          Thank you.      Mayra Prado