While rats can be a real nuisance in any home, getting rid of them doesn’t always require poisons or elaborate traps. Sometimes the most unusual solutions can work best.
Keeping rats away is easy with Vicks Vaporub, an ointment most people already have at home. Here’s how it works.
What you will need:
Three sweet biscuits of your choice,
one tablespoon of baking soda,
one teaspoon of Vicks VapoRub.
To obtain a fine powder, crushthe biscuits.
Mix the ground biscuits with the baking soda until thoroughly combined.
Knead the ingredients
with your fingers until you have a smooth dough, then add the teaspoon of Vicks Vaporub.
Divide the dough in half and shape each half into a small ball or mound.
You can bait an area where you suspect rats congregate by placing two or three of these pieces in a container and leaving them there.
The enticing scent of the biscuits will attract them.rodents, but the combination of baking soda and Vicks Vaporub will drive them away.