mastermaestro:
I can relate. Some people will think you are joking. I had a similar experience when I moved into my current apartment. Unfortunately those huge rats are resistant to the regular rat poison those vendors sell now. If you like litter your entire kitchen with it, they will eat and clean mouth.

Your first step would be to plug all the holes in your apartment. Get some quantity of cement and sand, do the mixture and lock all holes inside your apartment. Check for holes in the rooms, toilet, bathroom, wardrobe, and socket spots. I am telling you what I did. If you are able to do this, then if any of them gets dug out the next day, then you should know where your problem lies. Then you can now use a little piece of rock or foam, squeeze it into the hole before applying mixture of cement and sand.

As I type a particular big rat is trapped inside a hole in my bathroom. Every night it tries to come out through the water outlet without success. But for a while now, the noise has stopped. Dude may be dead.

Back to the measures I took. Check the entrance of your apartment for holes and block all of them. Do the same thing around your apartment walls, especially towards the ground. When you have successfully closed up all hiding places, get ready to confront the rat. You either get a trap, or have a weapon on standby as you rely on your vigilance to kill it at the slightest opportunity. Yes this was how I eliminated the last rat that wouldn’t go away because it had nowhere to hide anymore. It was a joyful ending.

I detest rats! Finally, ensure you don’t leave your entrance doors open if you have no protective net doors. This is the commonest way rats enter an apartment, especially in the evenings.

You have spoken well. OP also needs to take a day off, bring all things out of his kitchen and ensure if there is any hole in his kitchen cupboards or walls, cement and block all exposed entrances, check yr roofing too, does he have torn window nets. Also make sure all food stuffs are in a tight container and covered properly.

Hafizah:
You have spoken well. OP also needs to take a day off, bring all things out of his kitchen and ensure if there is any hole in his kitchen cupboards or walls, cement and block all exposed entrances, check yr roofing too, does he have torn window nets. Also make sure all food stuffs are in a tight container and covered properly.

You covered me up on the window nets part. Rats are good climbers. Mine was so bad that those evil things were having nocturnal meetings on my parlour couch, leaving their poop for me to clean up. This was what angered me most.

mastermaestro:


You covered me up on the window nets part. Rats are good climbers. Mine was so bad that those evil things were having nocturnal meetings on my parlour couch, leaving their poop for me to clean up. This was what angered me most.

Smiles.. Disgusting creatures