Bed Bugs and Rats
Long story short: I’m in the middle of moving into a new apartment after fleeing my bed bug ridden old one. But the new apartment seems to have a small rat/large mouse. Since it’s on the first floor of a large building near an unkept courtyard, i’m thinking this will be an ongoing proccess. does…
Long story short: I’m in the middle of moving into a new apartment after fleeing my bed bug ridden old one. But the new apartment seems to have a small rat/large mouse. Since it’s on the first floor of a large building near an unkept courtyard, i’m thinking this will be an ongoing proccess. does anyone know someone who specializes in sealing up apartments (baseboards, behind kitchen cabinet etc).
Also, it looks like there’s a chance i might have brought the bedbugs with me. my building uses an exterminator who I don’t have much faith in. Also, since my wife is pregnant and we already have a young daughter, I don’t want to soley relay on poisons.
Does anyone know a good bedbug exterminator in the prospect heights/park slope area? And if they did rats too, wouldn’t hurt…
thanks
Nice sharing of info. Thanks.
Russel Lyndon
http://www.spacify.com/
We live in a newly-renovated one-family. No sign of any bedbugs. We live near a deli and did have a problem with a rat in our yard when we first moved in. My wife, amazing genius that she is, simply called an exterminator. He placed a poison bait box against a wall (a path for rats) and plugged any holes with concrete. Classic NYC bodega next door to us: they’re not going to take any responsibility for the rat, although we saw the rat crawl out from their foundation. It cost me $300, but we are vermin-free. Nothing beats a good exterminator. Nothing.
We live in a newly-renovated one-family. No sign of any bedbugs. We live near a deli and did have a problem with a rat in our yard when we first moved in. My wife, amazing genius that she is, simply called an exterminator. He placed a poison bait box against a wall (a path for rats) and plugged any holes with concrete. Classic NYC bodega next door to us: they’re not going to take any responsibility for the rat, although we saw the rat crawl out from their foundation. It cost me $300, but we are vermin-free. Nothing beats a good exterminator. Nothing.
I think it’s fascinating that almost all the comments till now were about bedbugs, and very little about having a rat in the house – as if we are settling into acceptance. Two days ago, during a Friday pm rush hour, a large black rat ran across the platform right through the crowd leaving the IRT at Grand Army Plaza. (It was a rainy day which probably helps drive them up from the tracks.) No one even broke stride – one woman commented, “I thought it was a cat!”
I tried to take a cellphone picture of it but it was too fast for me. My recommendation (totally off the subject of this thread) – fight the madness, snap a picture wherever you see one in a public place, in the park the subway the street, and send it to the City or the owner. They have resources for this, you just have to draw their attention
oneasternparkway — I think I remember the address of your building from a previous post you wrote (won’t mention it here). I just did some googling because I heard this is a global situation and the bugs are traveling with people in hotels and luggage. You have much information now from above posts. Here is another of many sites:
World Travel:
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=5865148&page=1
The scent of the cat will keep the mice away but if you don’t want a cat get yourself a rat zapper….get’s ’em every time!
http://www.ratzapper.com
Best money i’ve ever spent next to my college education….no joke.
Good luck.
registered my building on bed bug registry. interesting, if depressing, reads…
Good luck!!!!!
thanks for all the recomendations. I’ve decided to bring in Roscoe the bed bug sniffing dog in tomorrow to check all the furniture before I bring it down to the new place. hopefully he won’t find anything…
anyone have any experience with the dogs?