Charlie Bress wrote:
I have a neighbor who has been hearing scratching noises in the walls and
ceiling.
They apparently got in through one or more broken vents
Her exterminator suggests two approaches
One is to set out poison. The downside is that the critters will die in the
walls and smell up the house.
The other is to set traps. The downside of this approach is the higher cost
of checking and rebaiting traps.

What is the best way overall of handling this problem?

Charlie



I have well over two hundred customers that I have bait out for rats and
I will maybe get a dozen, probably fewer, calls a year on dead odor. The
rats can die and cause an odor but more times than not it doesn't
happen. As mentioned for customers that insist on snap traps the cost is
more. Most exterminators base their time $100-$125 an hour.

Lar