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Background InformationThe House Mouse is the most common pest. While the color can vary, the house mouse is usually a grayish shade. Normally about 3 to 4 inches long with a tail of equal length, this mouse can gain access to your home through an opening of about ¼ inch. Usually they are herbivores, preferring grains, but they will eat any type of food or morsels. They tend to store food in and around their burrows. Interestingly, they can jump up about one foot high and can leap down from a height of 12 feet without injury. The major health risk associated with the house mouse is salmonella.
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Mice are nocturnal, meaning they like to sleep during the day. This is why pet mice or house mice can be heard playing or foraging during the night. Most wild mice are timid toward humans and other animals, but they are very social with other mice. Domestic mice are very friendly toward humans and can make good pets for older children and adults. Pet mice can live up to six years, while wild mice usually only live around 1 to 2.5 years. Additionally, mice have unusual names. Females are does, males are bucks. The babies are called pinkies because of their bright pink color. Baby mice are also called pups.
Mice, and rats, have plagued humans for quite some time. These rodents have a notable ability to adapt and live wherever humans live, store food products, or dispose of waste. They are well-adapted to living in and around homes and buildings; rats are good climbers, jumpers, and swimmers. Mice can fit through a hole the size of your finger tip. These pesky rodents will enter buildings in search of food, water, and shelter. They may come from nearby fields or other buildings, or they may be transported in boats, trains, trucks, or even in freight and cargo. They seek out shelters that include human housing, commercial buildings, vehicles, or boats. Since rodents are small and secretive, people are often unaware that they have these animals living within their wall voids, attic spaces, between floors, beneath the house, or behind a cabinet. When homes are infested with mice, humans will often find chewed up wires, books, papers and insulation around their home. Mice aren't eating these items, they are chewing them into pieces that they can use to make their nests. This is because mice nests are made from whatever the female mouse can find.
Mice, and rats, have plagued humans for quite some time. These rodents have a notable ability to adapt and live wherever humans live, store food products, or dispose of waste. They are well-adapted to living in and around homes and buildings; rats are good climbers, jumpers, and swimmers. Mice can fit through a hole the size of your finger tip. These pesky rodents will enter buildings in search of food, water, and shelter. They may come from nearby fields or other buildings, or they may be transported in boats, trains, trucks, or even in freight and cargo. They seek out shelters that include human housing, commercial buildings, vehicles, or boats. Since rodents are small and secretive, people are often unaware that they have these animals living within their wall voids, attic spaces, between floors, beneath the house, or behind a cabinet. When homes are infested with mice, humans will often find chewed up wires, books, papers and insulation around their home. Mice aren't eating these items, they are chewing them into pieces that they can use to make their nests. This is because mice nests are made from whatever the female mouse can find.
habitat
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Mice are resilient creatures that are found in nearly every country and type of terrain in the world. They can live in forests, grasslands, and man made structures with ease. Mice typically make a burrow underground if they live out in the wild. Their burrow helps protect them from predators and weather elements. Their natural predators are cats, birds, wild dogs, foxes, and more.
Their habitat may very well be in your home, too. As stated above, mice can make great pets. Their indoor habitat needs to be well-ventilated, clean, and at an appropriate temperature. |
mouse damage
Rodents can contaminate food and damage buildings and property by their constant gnawing and burrowing. They also can spread diseases to people and pets. Rodents can cause damages to structures, food stocks, and perhaps most detrimental, their presence can tarnish the reputation of a business establishment. Infestations are often discovered by the tell-tale signs of rat or mouse droppings or gnawed food packages. Rodents can gnaw through just about anything using their two large incisors. Sometimes they will even chew through electrical wires and start fires.
Catch and Release by Wild Animal and Pest Control
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Mouse trapping and the rodent removal process is designed to eliminate the pests that have caused the original influx. Wild animal and pest control will use traps and rodent exclusion to remove the mice from your home, attic, or business.
Afterward, the team will seal all entry points. This is a critical step in the removal process. These eliminates the mice returning and protects your home from any future invaders. The final step is the restoration and decontamination phase. Once the mice and/or rats are removed, we must clean up their trail. Urine and fecal waste from these rodents can soak into attic insulation or building material. After a while, a dangerous fungal spore can be released as the urine and feces begins to breakdown. Lovely, right? As if finding mice and rats wasn’t unsettling enough. |
These spores can travel through the entire home via the ventilation system because rodents typically chew into ventilation ductwork. To make matters worse, once the building material is sodden with filth, the scents will attract other rodents or animals that will see your home as a safe place to “nest”. The attraction is so strong that outside rodents will chew on the exterior areas of your home and try to gain admittance.
Pest control can prevent that! Give us a call to safely remove these animals and revive the safety of your home.
Pest control can prevent that! Give us a call to safely remove these animals and revive the safety of your home.
