Mice and Rodent Control and Prevention MN

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Rats and mice are the most common and most destructive household rodents. They get into food and garbage. They chew almost anything, including electrical wiring. They go to the bathroom on just about everything they touch, their greasy fur leaves marks where it rubs, and they carry disease and disease-carrying fleas.

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During the winter months, we imagine being snugly locked inside our warm homes while the cold winter winds howl outside. It brings images of warm fires or heated rooms to protect us from the cold. Unfortunately, your home also starts looking mighty fine to mice and rodents this time of year.

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During the winter months, we imagine being snugly locked inside our warm homes while the cold winter winds howl outside. It brings images of warm fires or heated rooms to protect us from the cold. Unfortunately, this is also the most likely time that rodents will invade and infest your house. Rats, mice, and squirrels are the most common invaders, though there have been cases of a raccoon getting in as well.

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Fall and winter are an especially busy time of year for encounters with these less than welcome house guests.

It’s winter and the critters living outside are looking for a warm place to spend the winter. Your home offers everything that mice, chipmunks, and squirrels are looking for, warmth, water and food.

Keep Mice and Rodents Out This Winter

Rodents find warmth and shelter however they can in the winter months. Often this means creeping inside well-insulated homes for the cold season. Although many pests go dormant for the winter, proper pest control measures protect homes from exposure to rodents. Keep in mind, the key to winter pest control is prevention.

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Facts about Mice

1. After two months of age, house mice produce 6 to 10 litters of five to 10pups per year.
2. Like all rodents, mouse teeth never stop growing; they can grow up to 5 inches a year
3. Mice can jump down 12 feet without injury; they also have a 13-inch vertical jump.
4. Mice chew through anything softer than their teeth, including electrical wire.
5. Their whiskers can sense smooth and rough surfaces, temperature changes and breezes.
6. Mice may make 20 to 30 visits to different food sites each night.
7. Mice can transmit salmonellosis when food is contaminated with infect mouse feces.
8. Mice have tails as long as their bodies.

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How Much Trouble Can One Mouse Be?

That furry little blur you just saw zip across in front of your fireplace? Those brown, rice-shaped droppings behind the refrigerator? O.K., how much trouble can a couple of mice be?

So, how many is too many?  ONE!  One mouse is One too many!  If you have one, you have many, and five in five days is WAY too many.

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Do you think you have rodents infesting your home, barn or workplace, but aren’t sure?  Here are some common signs that you may have a rodent problem.

You see rodent droppings.  This is one of the most reliable signs that you have a mouse or rodent problem.   You may find droppings in places where you store your food or your pet/animal food, such as in cupboards and drawers or in bins.