Finding signs of mice around your Ohio or SE Michigan home can be alarming. Not only do these rodents multiply quickly, they can eat and contaminate your food, and impact you and your family’s health. These rodents aren’t are just unwanted visitors, they are nuisance pests that no one wants to have sharing the place where they live or work. If you have found indications that these pesky little rodents may be living and feasting in your home, you will want to address the issue right away before your home is overrun. Do you have mice in your house?
Do you Have Mice in your House?
The first step in keeping these critters from overtaking your home and space, is mice prevention; however, if you are reading this, you probably already think you may have a problem, and would like to better understand how you know for sure that you have mice in your house.
Some common signs of mice in a home include:
- Droppings or tiny hairs
- Urine, stale, and musty odors
- Gnawed holes in food, papers, insulation, etc.
- Rodent runaways (narrow pathways where dust and dirt have been swept clean, noticeable grease marks, or urine trails)
- Rodent nests or piled nesting materials
- Scampering, skittering, or scratching noises
- Unusual pet behavior
- Seeing the a rodent
Check everywhere for these rodents, if you have any indication that you may have an infestation. Mice can live in your car or garage, your pantry, in your walls, and basically anywhere else that they have access to and that provides them with food, water, and shelter.
How Much Can One Little Mouse Hurt?
Have you found signs of mice in your Ohio home or business? It started when you saw a black, rice-shaped pellet on your counter or floor. Or maybe it was the scratching sound in your walls that first alerted you to the problem, or the jagged hole you found in a box of cereal in the pantry. Whatever the initial clue, it has recently become clear that you have an unwanted visitor or visitors your home, but how much can one little mouse hurt?
As we have reviewed before, mice multiply quickly, so if you suspect you have a mouse in your house, the truth is, it is actually probably mice, as in more than one. How fast do mice multiply? Mice are breeding machines. If you have two mice in your home or business, they could give birth about 60 times throughout the year. That can lead to around 5,082 new mice in just 12 months.
Let’s not forget that mice are known to carry disease, meaning everything in your home that they come in contact with, may be contaminated. According to the CDC, rodents are known to spread more than 25 diseases and they can be spread to humans directly through handling of live or deceased rodents, contact with rodent feces, urine, or saliva, as well as rodent bites. While not every rodent in your Ohio or Southeast Michigan home or business will be infected with a disease, you should always treat them as they may be, as you can’t tell by just the look of the eye.
One little mouse, is almost never just one, but even if it is, due to their scavenging nature and likeliness of carrying disease, even one can create issues for you and your family.
Mice Prevention
As we said, the best way to keep these critters out, is prevention; but even if you think you have done everything, if they want inside, they can find a way. It’s important to watch for signs of mice to stop an infestation from growing out of control.
Watch for rodent droppings, scratching, and squeaking, as signs of these critters. For the most effective form of mouse control in Ohio, you need a multi-placated approach to eliminate the current problem and prevent future infestations. Attempting this on your own, if you aren’t an expert in mouse behavior or elimination, like we are at Delving Pest Control, will likely not only cause frustration, but it could be dangerous for your health and safety.
At Delving Pest Control we know that a rodent infestation can be a major nuisance and it can take several treatments for rodent remediation. Delving will come out and inspect your structure to identify the level of infestation and recommend corrective action plans to eradicate your rodent problem fast. Trust Delving Pest Control to eliminate your unwanted rodents discreetly.
