yes dog food attracts mice and rats. Keep your bag of dog food in some sort of cannister. Keep your kitchen clean. No crumbs on the counters or floor. No food left out. This includes bread. Put your bread in a bread box or fridge. Also make sure they can't get in your garbage can. They also eat dog feces so get that up asap. They both carry ticks, fleas, mites, worms as well as other diseases (rabies). They can also give you and your dog food poisoning from the germs they carry on their filthy feet that they go through their urine and feces with. If you leave any kind of fruit out be sure to wash it. Best not to leave it out.
Mice can fit through a hole the size of a dime rats the size of a quarter. I have always heard that steel wool works in plugging these holes. It might work if you can find all the holes. holes can hide between the wall and your carpet. Rats make their holes.
When I had this problem I lived in a house. In the same neighborhood there was a feed store and a dog food plant. I had to get aggressive and use poison. You have to make sure your dogs, cats and wildlife cant get to the poison. Remove any remaining poison when the pest are gone!
For those who don't know rat and mice poison is deadly to a dog or cat. If your dog by chance gets any at all immediately take them to the emergency vet.
I fed my dogs twice a day. I would mix the dry food with canned food so they would eat it quickly. Then pick up the bowls and clean them out.
Good luck fighting these rodents in an apartment. I know you will feel like you are fighting a war by yourself. |