Rat Exterminator in Moonachie, NJ for Homes, Warehouses and Yards

Rat control in Moonachie: why low, wet ground means more rats

Moonachie is one of the low-lying Meadowlands boroughs, close to the Hackensack River, Teterboro Airport and the Route 46 and Route 17 corridors. Much of the town drains through ditches, creeks and tide gates, and Hurricane Sandy in 2012 showed how fast water can cover the streets here.

Norway rats are built for that kind of place. They dig burrows in soft soil along ditches, berms and fence lines, and they swim well. When high water or a heavy storm floods those burrows and the storm drains, rats move uphill to whatever is dry — which is often a garage, a shed, a crawl space or the space under a slab.

Add warehouses with loading docks, trucking yards with pallets and parked trailers, and food businesses with dumpsters, and Moonachie rats have food and cover on almost every block. A house that backs up to a commercial lot often sees rats first.

Where Moonachie rats and mice come from

These are the five sources we check on almost every Moonachie job:

Safe baiting, dead rodents and odor removal

Moonachie homes often have kids and pets in small yards right next to the problem area, so we keep safety simple. Inside, we use traps rather than loose poison. When bait is the right tool outside, it goes only in locked, tamper-resistant stations that children, pets and wildlife can't open, and we never throw poison into walls or crawl spaces.

If a rat or mouse has already died in a wall, under a floor or in a crawl space, you'll notice a strong, sweet, rotten smell. We do dead rodent removal, odor treatment and HEPA cleanup, and replace soiled insulation when needed. Then we find and seal the gap it came through. See dead mouse smell in the house.