I can handle almost anything in the world, except for rats plus cockroaches.
This dates back to growing up in the hood, in a poor home building that was crawling with both of those pests.
When I was several I got bit by a rat, plus had to go to the ER for shots, so can you blame me for having a bit of a phobia where they are anxious? I almost had a heart attack a few weeks ago when I thought our current house had rats in the attic, but it was just squirrels. It turns out that squirrels can tear up ductwork far worse than any mouse ever could, however knowing it was squirrels was enjoyable for our mental health, because if it was rats squirming around in our ductworks after that I would just have to transfer out. As it stood I had no mental concern with the pests, but they were ruining our indoor air conditions plus making the house odor funky. I had an HVAC tech come by plus supply me an inspection, plus he pointed out more than 2 concern areas in our duct system. Of course he couldn’t address the troubles I was facing or toil on the HVAC method at all, because of the pet infestation. He told me exactly what needed to be done, plus that none of it could happen until an exterminator had cleared out all the squirrels from the ductwork. I thought about trying to do it myself, but it would result in a bunch of dead squirrels in the ductworks, which would be even worse.