i live in a very small "town house" complex with only 4 houses, and we dont have a management company or anything to look after the complex. my neighbors are pretty 自掃門前雪 and one of them is extremely selfish and when problem arises and need to gather money to get things fixed for the benefit of all four families she'd refuse to chip in, saying things are not necessary to be done.
anywayz...
we have a rat problem... we tried calling 滅鼠公司 and they placed 老鼠藥in our house and the rats are gone for about 2 months or so... now they are back and very 橫行無忌. problem is our pipes are connected with the other houses... so if we dont 滅鼠as a whole complex, just doing it on our house would be no use... and that selfish b*tch refuses to do it together, saying that the rats are used to the 老鼠藥so it's pointless...... n some other bs.
is there any way to keep the rats away from our house at all???? this is driving me nuts... im also worried that they'll harm (e.g. bite) my two rabbits at home (altho they are caged, but it's not hard to get in??)... plus i dont really need extra lives in my already small house.....
any ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated... thanks ><作者: CWong 時間: 2009-10-10 22:12
養只貓啦！作者: tofu 時間: 2009-10-11 00:07
just wonder do we have the same rule here. if there is more than certain% of owners agreed to do it, the rest of the owners are forced to chip in too. maybe you can ask the city or someone who knows the rule more.作者: chocobun 時間: 2009-10-11 01:15
we bought the house around 2 years ago and apparently they (my neighbours and previous owner) signed an agreement before that we didnt know about... the agreement stated there are only certain things that we need to share the cost, e.g. garage cleaning, etc... something that's "common area". things inside your house or that belongs to your house e.g. trees in front of your house... is not other people's responsibility.
but my neighbour (that b*tch) is not a reasonable person so regardless of whatever rule there is they wont do anything about it (yet she used to threaten us with "the law"... saying that because our ventilation is connected we cannot use scented cleaning products because their whole household has allergy to scent and what we were doing was "contamination of air that harms others" <-- absolutely rediculous)... i just need to have an idea of how to reduce the rat problem in my house for now...作者: yoursecret 時間: 2009-10-11 06:42
"saying that because our ventilation is connected we cannot use scented cleaning products because their whole household has allergy to scent and what we were doing was "contamination of air that harms others"
Using your neighbor's argument against her - because the pipes/ducts are connected, her rats are crossing into your area since you've already use poison to kill all the rats in your house.
If you are willing to spend big money, then get a contractor to redo all the pipes and ducts inside your house so it's no longer connected to the other houses.
At the mean time, try to eliminate the food source in your house. Besides keeping clean, you can buy some plastic boxes with tight lids to store your rice, flour, noodles, dry food, etc, anything that a rat can chew through.作者: starbug 時間: 2009-10-11 08:53
Get a cat la.., or just borrow one from you friend and keep them around for a few days, the cat's smell will drive away the rats...
BTW, PSP/托屁 will serve the same purpose.., he will keep telling the rats:
Why don't you go home and don't come to Canada.
You are spending your parent's money to stay in Canada.
You rats are slaves in Canada and stealing money from Canada....作者: RayRay 時間: 2009-10-11 15:03
What a sad landlord作者: MoiRhapsody 時間: 2009-10-11 17:18
try to find out where the rat comes from EG: from the door, the drain hole , ETC you will find traces of their dungs.
check too see any hole on the wall, like under the heat, behind the frige , behind the couch ETC.
you might as well clean up your storage room.
keep all your food covered, and作者: eggoo 時間: 2009-10-18 00:12
Don't use 老鼠藥 inside your house. If they die behind the walls and smell awful.作者: Surreal 時間: 2009-10-18 03:38
認真
問朋友借隻貓養兩三個禮拜
我之前帶左隻貓 (老, 懶, 肥) 去前女朋友度
點睇都唔似會趕到老鼠個D呢
帶左佢返去
開頭真係得個訓字
後來真係見佢玩條老鼠屍
仲要係唔只一條
仲要係屍骨唔齊個隻
後來都嚇到冇老鼠來囉
咩老鼠藥都冇用
貓真係天生滅鼠架作者: Quest 時間: 2009-10-18 08:57
If it's inside your house, use cat; if it's outside of house, use rat poison (the newer one, not warfarin for warfarin has been in use for too long, most rats already have resistance to it).作者: chocobun 時間: 2009-10-18 10:31
i doubt anyone will lend me their cat lah.. it's like lending our your kid, no way
and i feel bad if i buy a cat just for the purpose of killing mouse.. it's like finding a bf/ gf just to have another person with you not out of love...作者: RayRay 時間: 2009-10-18 14:22
Mouse trap-house from Canadian Tire作者: RayRay 時間: 2009-10-18 14:28
本帖最後由 RayRay 於 2009-10-18 15:30 編輯
May be mouse trap and read
1. make sure it glued on a piece of board when use.
2. Put the whole set into plastic bag and dispose without tools because you can easy remove the trapped 'pet' if you get (1) done
3. Good luck.作者: tofu 時間: 2009-10-18 20:24
never run in a situation like this, but i would suggest these options:
1. get a cat from spca, so she can survive and you can say goodbye to the rat
2. like what yoursecret said, use the same agreement. also, even you live an apartment, you can't tell others not to use scent product or smoke la.
3. pest control is under costal health, tell them what happened, what you have done, and you believe the rat problem is endanger your life already. they will send people over to inspect your neighbour's house.
4. regard to the agreement, i would suggest you go to success or somewhere to get some legal advise. if it is just a private agreement, it may not have legal authoity.作者: KittyLeung74 時間: 2009-10-18 21:39
You can handle the situation alone. Go and call pest control. I call
大成害蟲防治公司
604-437-1268,604-728-9288
Don't call 亞信除蟲滅鼠. I called this company and he came to place toxic around, but useless. Then, call again. add more, it's still useless. Have you seen the rat push the tray forward to you and asked for more toxic stuff? So, I gave up and call the other pest control co.作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2009-10-19 00:19
本帖最後由 rainbow-davie 於 2009-10-19 01:20 編輯
No need to buy a cat.. we are in the High Tech era... and don't forget, cat eats mouse will give u a mess!!! even worse.
I had the same problem in summer. and then I talked to the building manager, and she recommended me to use it. It works. No more mouse / rat in my apartment now.
I'm not sure the same brand. but should work anyway. It has an effective area depending on the model. and I put one in my living room, one in my bedroom.
Clean and easy. 作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2009-10-19 00:22
同埋, 用夥封牆腳D gap.
Go to Canadian Tire and ask, they will teach you how to do it.作者: chocobun 時間: 2009-10-19 00:56
thank you all for the useful information! you guys are awesome ^^
rainbow-davie, i'll definitely give that sonic pest chaser a shot!
having pets is too much of a heart break... so having a cat isn't an option (as much as i love cats... but pets almost always die before their owners and it's such a heart ache), esp when my bf is highly allergic to animal fur (he cant be in my house now cuz i have 2 bunnies at home)
as for the agreement thing, it's a reaaaaaally long story, wont even go into that. hopefully we can move out of this place soon.作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2009-10-19 03:02
for animal fur, get those air purifier and air bug(??) killer . so ur bf will not allergic to that.
I know how u feel when there are rats.. I had that and I fighted with them all night long. scary! and i even coiuldn't sleep on bed. I even slept in the bath tube, and went to my fd's house. and set up trap, mouse glue tap everywhere. but trust me, after I set up the sonic thing, no more rat. so I can sleep now.. Zzzzzz作者: chocobun 時間: 2009-10-19 03:25
he's so severe that those purifier things wont work, and the fur will give him asthma. he has to wear those huge "pig mouth" protection mask when he comes into my house to filter out the fur.
i stil haven't seen a rat yet but my mom saw them before even my bf did (considering how rare he comes to my house)... i guess i'm lucky. but i'm very scared... every time i go to the kitchen at night i need to turn on all the lights and wait for a few seconds so if there are rats they can hide before i walk in cuz i dun wanna see them... and sometimes if i hear some sound i'd think it's rats..><作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2009-10-19 14:01
buy the sonic chaser yet?作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2009-10-21 03:13
so, you got it? work? 作者: blue20ae 時間: 2009-10-21 09:02
I have sonic chasers in the garage. I brought them from XS Cargo just for fun. I don't think they work, as I had mice in the garage from time to time (usually in the summer). But then, I don't have a control test, on what-if there is no chasers.
I would suggest you try mouse traps. I found once the traps are set, they may catch only once or twice. Mice would avoid the traps area.作者: chocobun 時間: 2009-10-21 16:04
didnt buy it yet... cuz i'm worried that the sonic sound will bother my rabbits作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2009-10-21 21:17
then what r u going to do? train the rabbit to kill rats?作者: cremedelacreme 時間: 2009-10-30 14:57
I have this thing at home dunno if its called the sonic chaser, its the thing I bought from Home Depot, that plugs into the electrical outlet at the wall. It does produce some sound, but its very very very mild, but if you have a rabbit, I dunno if it will affect the rabbit or bother the rabbit. It works very well, I have 2 in my garage, and I never had a rat problem at all (fingers crossed). Can you talk to some pest control company to see if there's anything you can do?
