RI, MA EHS Pest Control Blog

This was way too good not too share! As I have said before…..we see it all! If not for nothing the pest control business is certainly interesting and entertaining! What am I looking at in this picture? We call this one mad man with a hammer. This guy had a rat in his house so he used store bought rat poison and the result is a dead rotting rat carcass somewhere in his house. The bonus is the 2,000 blow flies that are swarming in all rooms of his house. The odor was so bad and offensive that he started ripping out his sheetrock to find it. After turning his basement into a disaster area he never found the dead rat.

EHS was able to come in and solve the rat issue. What we do is once rats have breached the structure we do not use a rodenticide for the very reason this picture depicts. We structurally exclude the rats and use mechanical traps until the problem is eliminated. Just another draw back to “do it yourself” pest control.

Mike “Spike McGoldrick
Service Supervisor

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA

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So what are you looking at??? This is the unofficial-official “Mice Trap Gauntlet”

So the story goes...... a homeowner in Rhode Island has been battling mice for over a year. They tried several methods of “do it yourself” pest control and failed miserably. The mice were getting worse. They called EHS to solve the long-standing mice issue. When I get there I see this VERY elaborate contraption in the kitchen. The homeowner explained to me the mouse trap that was made up of 13 mouse traps.

The goal of the trap is to kill the mice as they investigate the food (peanut butter) but if they survive the 1st wave of traps then they go up the “ramp of death”.

They then try to get to the peanut butter smeared on the soda bottle, it then spins causing them to fall into the pit where additional traps wait for them. According to the homeowner it took two hours to create. They realized they could spend their time on better things plus all their efforts & they still had mice! There was a happy ending, EHS eliminated the mouse issue.

Tim Lynch
Service Specialist

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA