Exclusion, where a trap actually goes, the bird seed feeding the problem, and how to read a rodent control invoice before you sign it.
A rat in the attic is two problems: the rat, and the person you call about the rat. The show covers both, and Craig, who ran a pest control company, is blunt about which one costs more.
Rats and Repairs is the practical episode. It covers exclusion, baits and traps, rats that have gone trap shy, and the single most common thing feeding an infestation, which is an open bag of bird seed in the garage. The fix there is a sealed plastic container rather than a stronger poison.
The mouse trap episode gets specific about placement. Rodents do not see well and use walls and baseboards to navigate, so a trap in the middle of a room is a trap in the wrong place, and a black light will show the urine trails that tell you where they actually run. The pest prevention episode covers the exclusion side: sealing entry points with wire mesh, deep cleaning, and cutting the moisture and food that make a house worth entering.
Then the invoice. Blind Trust: The Texas Rat Scam is a real rodent job taken apart line by line, with jargon written to confuse, an attic insulation upsell riding along and hantavirus used as a closing tool. Hantavirus came up again later, which is worth hearing before somebody says the word at your kitchen table.
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Against a wall, where they travel. On the mouse trap episode Craig explains that rodents do not see well and use baseboards and walls as a guide, so traps belong on that path rather than out in the open. A black light will reveal the urine trails that show you which path it is.
Trap shy rats are a real thing and they come up on Rats and Repairs. A rat that has been caught at and missed learns the trap, and that episode works around it with placement and with exclusion rather than simply adding more of the same trap.
Food and water you never thought of as food and water. Rats and Repairs names bird seed as one of the biggest culprits, along with dog food and grain left in bags in a garage, and the fix is a sealed container. The pest prevention episode adds moisture and clutter to the list.
It is a real illness and it is also a sales tool, which is the whole point of Blind Trust: The Texas Rat Scam. Craig takes apart an invoice where hantavirus was used to close an attic insulation upsell. The show returned to hantavirus later with insurance agent Ryan Aduddell, and the advice is consistent: take the cleanup seriously and take the sales pitch skeptically.
There is a lot more where that came from.
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