Treatment
Patriot Pest provides a comprehensive rodent inspection for homes dealing with rats, mice, squirrels, or other nuisance rodents. Common signs include droppings, chewed food, or noises coming from the attic, walls, or sub area.
Our inspection process includes:
- Customer interview to understand what you’ve been experiencing
- Full exterior and interior inspection of the home
- Attic, sub area, garage, and roof assessment as needed
- Photos and detailed notes added to your account
- Customized action plan tailored to your property and pest concerns
We identify and seal entry points, set traps strategically, and return for follow-up visits to check traps, remove rodents, and ensure all sealed areas remain intact. All sealed entry points come with a 1-year warranty.
Once trapping is complete, we offer cleanup, disinfectant treatments, and living enzyme bio-sanitation to eliminate bacteria, odors, and contamination. Rodents carry diseases and leave urine and feces along their travel paths, making sanitation an important final step.
Contact us today to schedule your rodent inspection.
Trapping
Trapping is a critical component of rodent remediation. While juveniles are typically easy to catch, experienced adult rodents—especially rats—are far more cautious and trap-avoidant. These “veteran” rodents are the primary reproducers, making them the most important to eliminate.
Key points about rodent behavior:
- Rats are highly intelligent and learn from seeing others caught
- They are naturally wary of new objects (a behavior known as neophobia)
- Litters average 6–9 pups, and new litters can occur every 21 days
Our technicians are trained in the latest, most effective trapping techniques. We study rodent travel routes, habits, and biology to outsmart even the most persistent alpha rodents. After trapping is complete, we recommend disinfectant or enzyme sanitation for affected areas.
Sealing Entry Points (Exclusion)
Exclusion is essential to long-term rodent control and works hand in hand with trapping. Properly sealing entry points increases trapping success by up to 98%.
Rodents with access to outdoor food sources may ignore baited traps. If they can freely move in and out of the home, they often:
- Gather food outside
- Store it in their cheeks
- Return indoors to consume it
This cycle often happens in 3-day intervals, which explains why activity may seem to come and go.
Our rodent remediation plan includes:
- Same-day sealing and trap placement
- Weekly follow-up visits to check traps and verify seals
- Monitoring for rodents sealed inside or outside the structure
Rats can survive for extended periods even with minimal food or water, so trapping and sealing must work together to eliminate the infestation.
Trenching / Underground Rat Wall
If rodents are digging around your foundation or accessing the sub area, Patriot Pest can inspect and determine which species is responsible. Different rodents create different types of holes:
- Golf ball sized holes → Voles
- Softball sized holes → Ground squirrels
- Two hole systems → Norway rats
Norway rats, in particular, create one entry and one exit and can dig up to 18 inches deep. They are large, powerful rodents with long bodies, shorter tails, and capsule shaped droppings.
Our prevention method includes:
- Digging 18 inches down along the foundation
- Creating a trench and installing an underground rat wall
- Setting traps in the sub area to catch any rodents left inside
- Offering cleanup and sanitation options based on infestation severity