Rats have stand to be dangerous and a great nuisance to human since the early stages of civilization. I know your great question is how this came to happen. The main cause of this is because the rats are aware that by living close to human beings, they get an abundant access to food supply as well as a secure shelter. Despite the fact that rats cannot be easily diseased, they usually carry dangerous insects and parasites. These insects and parasites are hazardous to human beings. These rats can transmit those dangerous diseases to human beings in an indirect way. In addition to this, they can also harm us indirectly by living in close proximity with insects and parasites which establishes a good opportunity for them to in vade our homes. …show more content…
The first and foremost step to getting rid of rats in your home is by sealing all the entries that they are likely to use to get into your house. Otherwise, the rest remedies might not be any effective.
2. After sealing all the possible entries, you should then set traps so as to kill them. It’s dangerous to poison the rats though since this will sophisticate the matter. They might infect your meals with the poison causing a more critical problem to the family members. You should instead make use of lethal and humane traps since they can be well set in their major trafficking areas such as the walls and the attic.
3. The third step is to remove all the dead rats and clean as well as disinfect all the areas that that they were nesting in.
4. After cleaning your home, you should take great control to prevent them from infecting your home again by simply keeping your home and property hygiene at the peak. To achieve this, you are required to put all the pantry food items in either a steel or a ceramic container. You also need to sweep the falls each and every day and clean all the piles of either wood, machines or even the soft nesting material outside your home. This perfectly serves the purpose to a great deal since by damaging and taking away the rats’ food supply in conjunction with their nesting spaces definitely keeps them
Imagine yourself as a nineteen year old boy headed off to Vietnam. It’s the late 60s and you were drafted into the Vietnam War. You watch as some of your friends flee the chance of fighting in a war where they have no idea what their fighting for. You watch as thousands of your countrymen die, too young to have been there. Imagine fighting an enemy that you can’t even see.
Multiple circumstances within the cities, families, and organizations of societies contributed to the rapid spread of the plague. Rats, ticks and other rodents or insects where one of the reason the plague spread throughout the world and most of Europe. The ticks and fleas where infected with the disease and they bit the rats and other rodents, which infected them with the disease. The ticks and fleas also bit other rodents, livestock and even the attached themselves to humans and transferred the disease to them. The rats or other rodents ran throughout the place they where bit by the tick. Some of the rodents began to go into ship yards and trains. They bread with other rats and begin to produce offspring which created an even bigger problem. The rodents got onto the ships and where transported around the world, along with the now infected materials on board. The rats would drop their feces around the ship and even on the drinking water and food. When the ships docked at ship yards around the world the rats got off and ran around the new country they now belonged to. Some of the supplies that where taken off of the ship included but was not limited to, liquids, foods and livestock. These supplies where shipped around the world and contributed greatly to the spread of the disease.
In the beginning, the Italian town of Genoa was one of the busiest ports in Europe. Ships sailed from there to trade all over the Mediterranean Sea. In October of 1347, 12 merchant ships sailed from Caffa to Italy. A strange disease had infected the crew of these ships. Dying bodies lay aboard the ships. City officials, afraid that the disease might spread, issued an order that no person or piece of merchandise was to leave the ships. They even forbade medical treatment for the sick sailors and passengers. The disease still spread. The officials had not considered that the rats from the ships were able to leave the ships by crawling along the ropes that were tied to the ships. From Italy, the disease spread all over Europe, traveling along the major trade routes. The rats were responsible for carrying the disease, which was transmitted by fleas from infected rats. The fleas drank the rats' blood that carried the bacteria. The bacteria multiplied in the flea's gut. While the fleas gut was clogged with bacteria, the flea bit the human and regurgitated blood into the wound.
This terrible disease was brought over by some of the sailors that had been infected with this disease and came to the port on the coast of Europe. On those ships were rats that had fleas who carried this disease from one host to another. It eventually spread from fleas to rats, and from rats to humans. Consequently, if you came into contact with
member of the family, Stanislovas, is dead, having been eaten alive by a swarm of rats in
Some say the rats came from a ship, but it wasn’t possible because the type of rats was common. These rats were “Filth running in open ditches in the streets, flyblown meat and stinking fish, contaminated and adulterated ale, polluted well water, unspeakable privies m epidemic disease.” These rats that were running all over the city were filthy and contained the disease. So when anyone got the disease you had symptoms like fever, pain, sweat, etc. The rats were the main cause of the black plague because they were all over and transmitted the disease to whoever was near
When the rat died, the flea would have to find another warm-blooded host to feed on, and next to them are humans. The flea bites the human and infects them. The unhygienic living conditions in the Middle Ages led to a faster spread of the disease, as a result creating a better environment for rats to live in. The lack of knowledge in the fourteenth century led to even worse remedies.
How many of us have seen stray animals around? How many of us have been affected by stray animals in a negative fashion? To help get a good idea on what pet overpopulation is and how it's a problem, some ideas need to be explored. We need to know the major factors behind pet overpopulation and cause it to perpetuate. We need to know pet overpopulation's larger, over reaching effects and the scale of the problems pet overpopulation causes. Lastly, we need to know what has been done and what could be done to help stem the tide of the problem known as pet overpopulation. Just to show how big of a problem pet overpopulation is there is an estimated 70 million stray cats in America alone. ("Pet statistics") That should be a sobering number on how
Many rats and rodents flocked to the littered streets, finding morsels of anything that would satisfy their hunger. This is where the transportation of the plague would come to play. As the rodents feasted on the waste, the plague-infested fleas would jump to the nearest passerby. “The most devastating to England was the bubonic plague.
trapped in the house and it is also trying to get out. From my background knowledge, the
At first in the Mill, the rats only judged Hall and watched him with cold eyes. His time in the picking room is spent antagonizing the rats and they seem benevolent at first. They don’t reciprocate that same violence as Hall displays,they just scatter and the watch him once he gets to work. This is shown when the narrator says, “ And after a while, the rats came out and sat atop the bags at the back of the long room watching him with their unblinking black eyes. They looked like a jury” (2). It indicates that their danger is not something that Hall is worried about,the rats just freak him out to an extent. Yet as the men venture into the first level of the basement, the rats start to approach them and attack, becoming more hostile in their presence. Their antics work to an extent, some men uit and refuse to work with the dangerous conditions the rats present, but for the most part, the expedition of furniture, dirt, and rats continues. This is exemplified in this line. “One of them had sat up on their hind legs like a squirrel until Hall got in kicking distance, and then it had launched itself at hids boot, biting the leather” (4). They become more aggressive by presence only, not only incitation of violence. The increasing aggression only
The only opening to the cage was on the accused individual's stomach. Once the rats were inside the cage a heating element was placed on the side of the cage opposite of the guilty individual. The rats natural instinct was to break free from the extreme heat. In hopes to get free from the extreme heat the rats would naw the guilty individual’s stomach. When the rats nawed the stomach they would burrow through the intestines of the guilty individual.
We do have fun, as shocking as this all sounds. Just like back home, we are simple men making horrid jokes, making light in these heavy matters. It has become a game for us, killing all the rats that find their way into our trenches. They are larger than you have ever seen them, I swear, and if I were to come across one once I return, I believe it will be a laughing matter. They try to get into our food, and on awful occasions, they succeed. We did have a boy, he was seventeen, I believe, asking if we could eat them. We told him he could go ahead, not thinking he would really do this, but he had. I am sure you would hate me for letting him do it, but we need some sort of fun over here. He became sick, for the first day it was just lousy, but not atrocious. He was shot down, the second day after eating it, right in the head. I am glad he did not have to suffer through the pain his stomach would have caused him. An immediate death must be better than a slow and painful one. Anyway, we have been catching so many, I would not be surprised if we had over fifty. I could give you more details of what these rats enjoy eating, but I know how much you hate these kinds of
Chapter One: Animal Negligence Animal Abandonment Animal abandonment. The word makes me sick. The whole IDEA of animal abandonment sickens me. Basically, you decide, Oh, I don’t want this dumb pet anymore.
Many people who abuse animals do not realize that they are actually hurting animals, this is known as unintentional. When some people try to discipline their pets they use tactics that they think is acceptable, when in reality is probably not the best way. People also abuse animals due to lack of attention, such as forgetting to feed and water the animals for a number of days. A family may take the animals with them when they leave the house, and forget to leave a window down with the animal inside. One of the biggest unintentional ways of animal cruelty is a way that many people think is helpful but is actually has a negative impact on all of the animals involved, this idea is trying to take in more animals than one can handle, they have good intentions but this is harmful to animals because it forces them to live in unhealthy conditions. There are many new cases of animal hoarding every year, with over 250,000 animals falling victim. Puppy mills are large dog breeding’s that care more about making money than the wellbeing and health of the animals. Many dogs become ill with diseases such as kidney or heart disease as a result of the conditions in which they live.