How do your keep rats from nesting under a shed with a wood base with wood chips around it ??

Answer 1

they only way would be with cement or wire mesh, they love under sheds nice and dry . make sure there is a less food for them to feed on , if you have any other out houses with potatoes stores of any kind move them some where else , flower bulbs soap candles anything they eat and store ,you can buy poison and put this down, but they are very smart devils, if there is one rat there could me many many more I would call the Environmental health, the problem might not becoming from your garden but someone else´s , we also had a problem with them ,but we did´t invite them for lunch , the next door neighbors , had so much rubbish in is garden if you could call it that . the grass was never cut ,perfect for rat´s and also if there is garbage bin´s without lids there dinning out every day without pending a penny, the problem will only get worse if you leave it to long

Answer 2

if he was wild you will have a very hard time getting him to eat. especially if you try to give him something that's already dead. give him at least a week to settle in to the new home, without handling him much. having a big scary animal put their hands all over him will just add to the stress of switching to a life of cages. after a week, maybe 2, get a live adult mouse (not rat) and put it in his cage then watch them. don't leave them unattended together because the mouse can bite and injure the snake. if after 20 minutes he hasn't eaten it take it out. you can try catching something he was eating in the wild such as a small lizard and rub the mouse against it's belly to get the scent of it and try feeding again. or you can try chain feeding, give him the lizard and as he's swallowing it hold the nose of a small mouse against the end of the lizard, the snake will keep swallowing and end up eating the mouse. do the same thing again with a 2nd and maybe a 3rd mouse so he then associates the new taste with eating and will recognize it as food next time it is normal for snakes to refuse food for a few months don't worry about him starving to death. but if after 5 months you don't have any luck i would just release him back and get a snake that's been captive bred and hand raised and is already used to the smell and taste of captive bred mice. actually, you might be better off doing that right away instead of months down the road (ps: i wrote all that assuming he is native to your area, if he isn't and you can't get him to eat then bring him to a reptile store, a vet, or a reptile rescue group) best of luck!

Answer 3

Put down some boxes of D-con or set traps or put some moth balls around. I believe they do not like citrus either so you could put all your orange peels under there.

Answer 4

Get a couple of cats...

Answer 5

if you can,block the entrances with steel wool,they hate it!