Roof Rats are very busy during spring time. These types of rats love attics. They can live just about anywhere, but their preferences are high places. I have found these creatures love evergreen trees. They eat on the sap from these trees.

    Roof Rats are notorious for infesting attics, where they have a safe place from the elements. They will go outside or deeper inside the home to forage for food. They love nuts, greasy foods, barbecue, citrus fruits, they eat meat, bugs, plants etc. these guys can carry all kinds of diseases examples are salmonella, hantavirus, leptospirosis, tularemia, the plague.

    On top of that they can carry tics, fleas, lice, rat mites etc. They breed fast, they poop and pee everywhere. A well traveled area or entrance to a structure will have a greasy mark from their fur. They can chew your electric wires, water lines to get water, they are always chewing and gnawing on stuff, because their teeth are always in a growing state.