It’s utterly disappointing when you hear the scurrying of mice in the middle of the night. A mouse is rooting about, looking for food in your trash. Mice are sometimes cute, but a mouse problem is a complete pain to have in the house. So you look the next morning. You can’t find the mouse, but you find some of its droppings. You know these can carry disease, so you’re careful when you sweep them up. You hope the mouse doesn’t have a family it’s raising in your chewed-up insulation.

Electrical Risk: You also hope that mice in the home don’t chew through the electrical wires. This accounts for as many as 20 percent of all house fires. If you dodge this, you could still have an electrocuted mouse stinking up your home from inside the walls, or awaiting danger the next time condensation drips from a pipe.

Contamination: Maybe you can’t find them – they could be living in the walls. Yet you find a box of cereal torn apart, or holes in a chip bag. Worse yet, you might discover they got into the dog food. Now you need to throw the whole container out because it could be contaminated in a way that will harm your pets.

Is Food Safe? Next, you notice a urine stain on a favorite rug. There are gnaw marks on the edge of a door frame. You smell them, but you can’t find them. Mice in the home are experts at guerrilla warfare, seeking out the supplies you leave around. It gets to the point where you’re paranoid to even leave a sandwich, or a piece of cake, or a glass of water unattended for more than a minute. That’s all it takes for the mouse to zip in, take a few bites, and hide. Will that expose you to disease?

Solving a Mouse Problem: How do you get rid of mice? It begins with tracking down how they’ve gotten in. What are their favorite routes? Where are they feeding? We train to understand their behavior and track them down inside of a house – even when they’re in hard-to-reach places. We can set traps, to get rid of mice in the home. A mouse problem isn’t something to take lightly. Address it before it damages your home or puts someone at risk for a health issue.

Keeping Them Away: That’s only part of the solution, however. We also need to inspect potential entrances into your home. If a mouse managed to find its way in, then others can, too. This is a particular danger as winter approaches. It doesn’t get too cold here, but mice will tend to seek more indoor environments because of cool nights. Potential entry points need to be sealed and solved, or other rodents will find their way in, too.

Got a mouse problem? Call in the rodent experts at Slug-A-Bug today.