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Do relocated rats survive? (no, they perish out of their
usual territory)
You do a lot more than just “relocate” a rat when you trap it and then
release it back into the wild. You take it away from its home, its family
and friends, a source of shelter, food, and water too. You may have taken a
mother away from its babies.Those babies will most certainly die without
their mother. The rat will most certainly die after you have released it
either way.
Rats are used to living in the shadows of people - eating from our garbage
cans and generally scavenging whatever scraps of food we leave behind. They
hide in our attics or crawl spaces, or sometimes in the corner of our
garages. They even live in the sewers. They don’t come across their biggest
predators while they are hiding down there, or in
the depths of your home. These predators include those in the sky - hawks,
eagles, owls, that kind of thing, as well as those on the ground - dogs,
cats, and then moving on to more wild animals such as raccoons, coyotes,
etc. It’s a dog eat dog world out there, and there’s a good chance that your
relocated rat will die within just a few days, if it even lasts that long.
It won’t be used to the predators it finds out there in the big wide world,
and it won’t really know how to deal with them either. There are no drain
pipes for it to run down, no attics to hide in. It won't have a source of
shelter, a source of anything, so by releasing the trapped rat into the
wild, you are essentially signing the rat’s death warrant.
For more rat information, visit our rat
removal tips page, or for more specific how-to instructions, read the
how to get rid of rats page
with 6 step-by-step instructions. If you have a problem with rats above your
ceiling in your house, read my rats
in the attic guide. The most important part of rat control is sealing
shut entry holes into the building, but after you've done that, you'll want
to know how to kill rats
humanely to complete the rat control job. If you need to hire professional
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