When you are a homeowner, pest infestations are not something that you even want to think about let alone deal with. However, there may come a time where you find yourself dealing with just that. If you have recently seen a mouse or multiple mice in your home, there are some things you should know and do to deal with the problem before it gets out of control.
Even One Mouse Can Be a Serious Problem
Even if you only see one mouse in your home, you may have a serious problem on your hands. Mice are not solitary creatures in nature. In fact, they are highly social. Because they are social, you may only see one mouse in your home but may have several of them living in secret alongside your family.
And while you may think that your mouse infestation is harmless, this is not necessarily the case. Mice are capable of transmitting many diseases to humans including Lyme disease, rat bite fever, the plague, and more. While some of these diseases are more commonly transmitted than others (i.e., Lyme disease or salmonella), all are a risk when you have a mice infestation.
Do not just assume that having mice in your home is innocuous. You never know what disease these creatures may be carrying and what health risks they pose to you and your family.
You Need to Close Off Their Access to Your Home
When you want to do something about your mice infestation, the first step you should take is to find and get rid of the access points for the mice. The mice likely got into your home through tiny holes or cracks in the exterior of your home. Identifying these areas of vulnerability and filling them in will block new mice from getting into your home and the current mice from escaping.
You will likely need a pest control company or home repair service help you with this issue. The holes through which mice can enter your home can be quite tiny, and you might miss them if you are looking for them all on your own.
Choose Your Mousetraps
Here is where things get a bit tricky for some people. You have closed off your home so that no mice can get in or out, but now you need to deal with the mice that remain in your home. Many people are quite squeamish about killing mice in their home or simply do not want to have to deal with the aftermath of the kill.
As such, there are many different options available to you. You can opt for the traditional snap traps, glue traps, or the like and deal with them yourself. You can also use similar traps and have a pest control company come out and collect the traps when they have been used.
Alternatively, there are humane, no-kill mousetraps that can help you trap mice without killing them. These traps, in particular, would benefit most from you working with a pest control company. They will be able to take the traps and release the mice far from your home, so they do not potentially get back inside.
Consider Getting a Cat
No matter how many traps you set, you may not feel secure in knowing that all of the mice have been dealt with in your home. One of the ways that you can ensure that you have continued mouse protection after your pest control company has helped you through the initial mouse removal process is to get a cat.
Cats are natural mouse-hunters. Because of this, having a cat in your home can help you to know if you have a repeat mouse infestation or if you have a few stragglers from your initial infestation.
Knowing these facts about a mouse infestation and what you can do about it, you can contact a pest control company
and get your house mouse-free as soon as possible.
