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Macon, Columbus, and South Georgia Rat Control and Exclusion

Young rat in a cage trap facing the camera after being trapped and removed from a house by a pest control company.

There are two species of rats that are common rodent pests in Macon and throughout Georgia: The roof rat, Rattus rattus (also known as the black rat); and the brown rat (also known as the Norway rat, wharf rat, or sewer rat), Rattus norvegicus.

As their name implies, roof rats are usually found in high places. In nature, they're tree dwellers, and their bodies are well adapted for that life. They're slimmer and lighter than Norway rats, with an excellent sense of balance. In homes, roof rats are usually found in attics, soffits, lofts, and other high parts of the home

Norway or brown rats are ground dwellers (although they can climb when necessary). They're heavier and stockier than roof rats, commonly live in burrows when they live outdoors, and are excellent swimmers. When they get into homes and other buildings, they can be found anywhere; but most commonly they're found in crawl spaces, basements, and on the lower floors.

Both species of rats can be found throughout Georgia. Brown rats are slightly more common in urban areas, and roof rats in rural areas; but both can be found anywhere in the state.

Rats as Pests

Rats are the first animals that were associated with disease. Historical records suggest that even people in Biblical times knew that rats were somehow associated with sickness. With the benefit of modern science, we now know that rats are involved in the transmission of many serious diseases including hantavirus, leptospirosis, Lyme disease, salmonella, and plague.

In addition to the diseases they spread, rats can also cause direct damage to homes when they gnaw openings to get inside, they damage insulation and contaminate it with their urine and droppings, they cause foul odors that can get into the living area of the house, or when they tear up clothing and other stored items to use as nesting material.

When rats gnaw on electrical wiring, they can cause fires. They can also cause damage to Internet, Cable TV, telephone, and other low-voltage wiring, which will cause those services to stop working.

Non-Chemical Rat Control

At Rid-A-Critter, we treat most rat infestations without using any poisons at all. We control rats using the non-chemical pest control methods of trapping, removal, and exclusion ("rodent-proofing"). The only time we use rodenticides is around some commercial buildings that are required by law to have rodent bait stations around the outside perimeters.

By using organic rat control methods instead of poisons, we avoid all of the problems associated with rodenticides. For example:

Our non-chemical rat removal and rat-proofing methods avoid all those problems, while providing a more permanent rat control solution that will keep rodents and other nuisance animals out of your home.

Rat Control Gallery

Here are some pictures we've taken at the many rat-removal and rat-proofing jobs we've done in Macon, Columbus, and throughout Southern Georgia.

Insulating foam applied into a ground level hole in the foundation where some pipes and wires pass through left gaps that allowed rats into a house in Jackson, Georgia.
Handyman rat-proofing attempt in Jackson
A gap of about an inch and a half where the sheet metal top of the air conditioning unit meets the brick wall allowed Norway rats into a house in Williamson, Georgia.
Rat gap into a brick house in Williamson
Roof rats gnawed on the electrical wiring and exposed the copper conductors in the attic of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Roof rat damage to the wiring in Columbus
A gap of about an inch and a half between the brick wall and the rear of the soffit that allowed roof rats to climb from the wall into the attic of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat gap between the wall and soffit in Columbus
Norway rats chewed an indentation into the lower left-hand corner of a rickety old plywood door to get into the crawl space of a house in Macon, Georgia.
Rats chewed their way into a crawl space in Macon
A triangular section of siding where the soil slopes upward allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat gap in the siding in Columbus
The screen is completely missing from a cinder block in a window well used to ventilate the crawl space, which allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Why this house in Columbus needs rat control
A four foot wide by two foot high plywood crawl space door and frame installed as part of a Norway rat control job in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat-proof crawl space door and frame in Columbus
Norway rat tore a hole about the size of a basketball into a flexible heating duct in the crawl space of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Norway rat damage to a heating duct in Columbus
Norway rats gnawed a hole through the siding right by the sill plate from under the deck to get into the crawl space of a house in Griffin, Georgia.
Norway rats gnawed through the siding in Griffin
There is a gap around various pipes and wires passing under a sheet metal hood and through the siding that allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
How Norway rats got into this house in Columbus
Greasy stains on top of the cinder block foundation next to the sill plate and on an electrical wire running on top of the ledge are evidence of a Norway rat infestation at a house in Macon, Georgia.
Norway rat rub marks in a crawl space in Macon
Droppings and debris inside of a flexible metallic clothes dryer duct are evidence of a Norway rat infestation at a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Evidence of rats in a dryer duct in Columbus
Norway rats clawed a hole roughly the size of a football through the outer cover and into an insulated heating duct between the joists in the basement of a house in Americus, Georgia.
Norway rat damage to a heating duct in Americus
The gap around a bundle of assorted pipes and wires passing through a hole in the cinder block foundation wall that allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat hole through a cinder block in Columbus
A gap around pipes and wires where they pass through a rectangular hole in the cedar siding that allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat gap through a hole in the siding in Columbus
Roof rats gnawed a hole a little bigger than a golf ball through the wooden soffit trim where it wraps around a brick chimney to get into a house in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Roof rat hole through the trim in Warner Robins
Roof rats gnawed a hole about the size of a golf ball through the vinyl soffit panel to get into a house in Americus, Georgia.
Roof rat hole through a soffit panel in Americus
Several holes in a plywood panel being used as a crawl space window where a pipe and some wires pass through that allowed Norway rats into a church in Macon, Georgia.
Norway rat holes into a church in Macon
A cable TV installer made a hole about two inches square in the screen behind a foundation vent to pass a single wire through, and rats used the hole to get into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat hole made by a cable guy in Columbus
The hinge side of a wooden crawl space door frame somehow went missing, and the resulting three inch gap allowed Norway rats into the crawl space of a house in Adel, Georgia.
Open-door policy to Norway rats in Adel
Norway rats scratched and gnawed the stucco from the bottom several inches of an exterior wall of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Norway rat damage to a stucco wall in Columbus
A metal drip edge that was cut about two inches too short that allowed roof rats to gnaw through the wooden fascia and get into the attic of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Roof rat gap into the attic of a Columbus home
A hole about the size of a tennis ball through a cinder block where some sort of pipe used to pass through that allowed rats to get into the crawl space of a house in Cordele, Georgia.
Rat hole through a cinder block in Cordele
A lightening hole in a cinder block turned sideways to vent the foundation that allowed Norway rats into the crawl space of a house in Albany, Georgia.
Rat gap through a cinder block at an Albany home
A broken piece of siding at the corner of the house created a roughly triangular gap about three inches across at the base and about a foot high that allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Norway rat gap in the siding in Columbus
Gaps between the vertical bricks of a ground level foundation vent and a gap about ten inches wide where the bricks are missing that allowed rats into the crawl space of a Macon, Georgia home.
Norway rat gaps into a crawl space in Macon
Rat dropping mixed in with insulation that rats tore from inside an insulated heating duct in the crawl space of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Rat droppings in a crawl space in Columbus
A gap about an inch wide by two inches high in the drip edge that allowed roof rats to get into the attic of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Roof rat gap in the drip edge in Columbus
A gap about the size of a plum tomato between the top of the rain gutter and the shingles over it that allowed roof rats into the attic of a house in Columbus, Georgia.
Roof rat gap over the rain gutter in Columbus

Please contact us for more information about our non-chemical rat control solutions. We look forward to hearing from you.

 

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Mar 23, 2023 11:31:15 am.

A handyman tried squirting insulating foam into a ground-level hole in the foundation where some pipes and wires pass through, but rats gnawed through the foam to get into a house in Jackson, Georgia. Non-chemical rat control requires the proper materials and techniques to achieve rodent elimination without using pesticides.
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Mar 23, 2023 08:20:55 am.

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Mar 22, 2023 12:41:29 pm.

A gap of about an inch and a half where the sheet metal top of the air conditioning unit meets the brick wall allowed Norway rats into a house in Williamson, Georgia. Or non-chemical rodent control specialists are setting traps to catch and remove the rats without using pesticide, and sealing all the gaps to make the house rodent-proof.
by Webmaster
Mar 21, 2023 10:19:35 am.

Rodent pest control specialists doing roof rat control in the attic of a Columbus, Georgia home discovered that the rats had gnawed on the electrical wiring and exposed the copper conductors. Rodent damage to wiring causes many house fires every year.
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Mar 20, 2023 11:04:10 am.

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In Tifton Ga giving a quote for a commercial building for squirrels and then headed to another commercial building in Americus Ga for bats. Ending the day in Macon Ga for a residential quote for Rats. Have a good day!
by Jason Arruda
Mar 13, 2023 11:57:15 am.

A gap of about an inch and a half between the brick wall and the rear of the soffit allowed roof rats to climb from the wall into the attic of a house in Columbus, Georgia. Our rat control crew is sealing the gap to rodent-proof the house, and using trapping and removal to treat the existing rat infestation in the attic.
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Mar 13, 2023 09:42:59 am.

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Mar 13, 2023 08:41:59 am.

Scurrying in the attic, scratching in the walls sounds like you may have critters. Going to some homes today hearing these noises.
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Mar 08, 2023 10:33:33 am.

Norway rats chewed an indentation into the lower left-hand corner of a rickety old plywood door to get into the crawl space of a house in Macon, Georgia. Our rat control experts are setting traps to eliminate the rat infestation without using pesticides, and building a new crawl space door and frame that will rodent-proof the house and prevent future problems.
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Mar 08, 2023 10:24:53 am.

Helping the technicians today with a Bat Exclusion on Lake Jackson Ga.
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Mar 07, 2023 10:47:30 am.

A triangular section of siding where the soil slopes upward allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia. A rat pest control team will be heading out there shortly to repair the damage and rodent-proof the house. The existing rats will be trapped and removed to eliminate the infestation without using pesticides.
by Webmaster
Mar 02, 2023 06:19:41 am.

One of our wildlife-management technicians is on his way to remove what sounds like a black rat snake from under the porch of a house in Griffin, Georgia. Snake-removal jobs usually wind up revealing rat or mouse problems at the house. Snakes find rodents very tasty.
by Webmaster
Mar 01, 2023 10:13:42 am.

The screen is completely missing from a cinder block in a window well used to ventilate the crawl space, which allowed Norway rats into a house in Columbus, Georgia. Our rat pest control crew is screening the vents to rodent-proof the house, and is using traps to solve the existing rat problem without using pesticides.
by Webmaster
Mar 01, 2023 09:50:29 am.

We just finished installing a four-foot wide by two-foot high crawl space door and frame as part of a Norway rat control job in Columbus, Georgia. We provide residential rat and rodent control without using pesticides.
by Webmaster
Feb 27, 2023 09:33:46 am.

Our Non-Chemical Rodent Control Technicians are in a Crawl Space Repairing Norway Rat Damage to a Duct at a Columbus, Georgia Rat Control Job
by Webmaster
Feb 22, 2023 09:15:57 am.

Rats gnawed a hole through the siding right by the sill plate from under the deck to get into the crawl space of a house in Griffin, Georgia. Our rat-control technicians are in the crawl space setting traps to treat the rat problem without using pesticides, and rodent-proofing the exterior of the house to prevent future infestations.
by Webmaster
Feb 21, 2023 10:29:24 am.

As soon as the rain lets up we'll be installing a Ridge Guard animal barrier to replace a warped plastic roof ridge vent as part of a Griffin, Georgia bat removal and exclusion job. The Ridge Guard will also keep other nuisance wildlife out of the attic.
by Webmaster
Feb 21, 2023 09:56:34 am.

No One Bothered to Seal Around the Pipes and Wires Where they Pass Through the Siding, and that's Why this House in Columbus, Georgia Needs Norway Rat Control
by Webmaster
Feb 21, 2023 09:47:36 am.

Greasy stains on top of the cinder block foundation next to the sill plate and on an electrical wire running on top of the ledge were evidence of a Norway rat infestation at a house in Macon, Georgia. The rat control crew is busy rodent-proofing the house and trapping and removing the existing rats to treat the rat problem without using poisons.
by Webmaster
Feb 16, 2023 10:06:04 am.

Droppings and debris inside of a flexible clothes dryer duct were evidence of a Norway rat infestation at a house in Columbus, Georgia. Our rodent pest control experts are trapping and removing the rats and rodent-proofing the house to non-chemically eradicate the rat problem.
by Webmaster
Feb 16, 2023 10:03:03 am.

Our Rodent Pest Control Specialists are Repairing Serious Norway Rat Damage to a Heating Duct at an Americus, Georgia Rat Control Job
by Webmaster
Feb 16, 2023 09:53:08 am.

Our wildlife-exclusion specialists just finished installing an animal barrier under the shingles along the edge of the roof as part of a Macon, Georgia squirrel-removal and animal-proofing job.
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Feb 14, 2023 10:30:51 am.

The gap around a bundle of assorted pipes and wires passing through a hole in the cinder block foundation wall is why we have a rodent pest control crew doing Norway rat control in Columbus, Georgia today. We'll seal the hole as part of the rodent-exclusion job.
by Webmaster
Feb 14, 2023 10:20:31 am.

The gap around the pipes and wires where they pass through a rectangular hole in the cedar siding is why we have a rodent pest control crew in a crawl space doing Norway rat control in Columbus, Georgia today. They'll seal the gap to keep rats and other rodents out of the house.
by Webmaster
Feb 13, 2023 10:22:20 am.

Roof rats gnawed a hole through the wooden soffit trim where it wraps around a brick chimney to get into a house in Warner Robins, Georgia. The crew treating the rat infestation will also repair the damage and rodent-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Feb 13, 2023 09:54:19 am.

Roof rats gnawed a hole about the size of a golf ball through the vinyl soffit panel to get into a house in Americus, Georgia. The crew removing the bats from the attic will repair the damage.
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Feb 13, 2023 09:52:08 am.

The Macon, Georgia office of Rid-A-Critter provides Norway and roof rat extermination and rodent pest exclusion in the Macon, Columbus, and South Georgia areas, including Adel, Albany, Americus, Barnesville, Byron, Camilla, Centerville, Columbus, Cordele, Culloden, Cuthbert, Dawson, Eastman, Fitzgerald, Forsyth, Fort Valley, Gray, Griffin, Hawkinsville, Jackson, Juliette, Kathleen, Milledgeville, Moultrie, Perry, Roberta, Sylvester, Thomaston, Thomasville, Tifton, Valdosta, Warner Robins, Yatesville, and Zebulon. We are fully licensed and insured.

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