How To Find A Dead Rat In My Attic

Use bleach and water mix to clean the area and ventilate it well before sealing up the hole.

How to find a dead rat in my attic.

If you think you have rats in the attic take a look at around up there to see if anything has been chewed. Removal of a dead squirrel from inside an attic. A dead rat in the attic notice the blue poisoned droppings around it. Removal of a dead animal from an attic is simple.

Rats are pretty clever and will remember where things are so when you find one chewed up item you are likely to find more in that area. Sometimes the rats will simply die naturally particularly when there is a large colony living in your attic. Stick your nose right against the ceiling until you hit the unmistakable stench of the final resting place. A word of warning r ats will chew anything.

Trace the walls with your nose and try to narrow down where it is most likely to be. If it s inaccessible by a skinny human such as me i sniff out the exact area and cut a hole in the ceiling and remove the animal that way. If the rat is in a ceiling area but there s no attic to crawl into it s the same basic deal. Use protective gloves to grab the carcass.

Pinpoint the area down to within an inch. The animal may have died at the very edge of the attic or worse in a cathedral ceiling or some other spot. Second the animal often dies burrowed under the insulation. Other times a homeowner will make a poor decision and decide to poison rats in their home to kill them.

The mask definitely helps. Stick your nose on the drywall and go back and forth narrowing it down. Use a drill and drywall or keyhole saw to. Just go into the attic find it and remove it.

Drill the wall and make a hole to reach the dead rat. A dead opossum in an attic i had to dig it from under the insulation. Then cut a hole with the drywall saw remove the rotten bugger spray with. When your nose gets within a foot of the carcass the odor will change it will be obvious.