If you missed out on the opportunity to cash in when the Chinese took rats off restaurant menu listings during the olympics and drove rat lovers to the black market to satisfy their desires for good eats, we'll be glad to dispose of your crop.
Mice have pointy noses, rats have blunt noses. These
pups are rats. Notice the nose on the lower left.
These rats were on the bottom floor, and in a crawl space.
Sometimes the noise comes from above. Check the gutters.
If they look like this
look for an opening like this.
We can trap them, poison them, exclude them with physical barriers, or drop off a hungry cat on a long leash. What we do depends on your situation, with pets and physical structure the key determining issues.
The foam was to close off access. The access was to the left, behind the dishwasher.
The pipe in the rear middle goes through a large opening to the crawl.