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Ottawa’s rats are on the move, disturbed by construction of the LRT and other big road and bridge construction projects and now looking for a new home.
It could be yours.
Ottawa’s pest control companies are getting more calls recently for rats in buildings, and say tunnelling for the light rail project is one reason.
That’s because rats have a comfort zone, says Marty Rainville of Pro-Tech, a pest control form in Ottawa and Gatineau. They’re happy up to four metres underground where there’s no loud machinery.
“If there’s any construction that’s involved, putting in streets, fixing water mains, sewers — that is like taking a stick and hitting a bees’ nest … they can definitely be repelled and moved around.”
Rats scatter from the disturbance.
“They don’t like new stuff. They don’t like having disturbance. They always like the old ways,” which is why they are hard to get rid of once they find a food source they like, he said.
“They have a comfort zone.”
Simple keys to keeping rats out include not giving them a hole to enter a home, such as floor drains in the basement that connect with the sewer system; and not leaving food out where they can get it easily. That includes garbage.
It’s not the first time a big project has scared rats out of one home and into neighbouring properties. The Lansdowne construction era sent rats scurrying into neighbouring Glebe buildings.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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It could be yours.
Ottawa’s pest control companies are getting more calls recently for rats in buildings, and say tunnelling for the light rail project is one reason.
That’s because rats have a comfort zone, says Marty Rainville of Pro-Tech, a pest control form in Ottawa and Gatineau. They’re happy up to four metres underground where there’s no loud machinery.
“If there’s any construction that’s involved, putting in streets, fixing water mains, sewers — that is like taking a stick and hitting a bees’ nest … they can definitely be repelled and moved around.”
Rats scatter from the disturbance.
“They don’t like new stuff. They don’t like having disturbance. They always like the old ways,” which is why they are hard to get rid of once they find a food source they like, he said.
“They have a comfort zone.”
Simple keys to keeping rats out include not giving them a hole to enter a home, such as floor drains in the basement that connect with the sewer system; and not leaving food out where they can get it easily. That includes garbage.
It’s not the first time a big project has scared rats out of one home and into neighbouring properties. The Lansdowne construction era sent rats scurrying into neighbouring Glebe buildings.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
查看原文...
