In apartment and condominium complexes, mice can quickly become a problem, spreading throughout the building. Residents often contribute to the problem by failing to notify property management when they see evidence of mice. With the fast reproductive rate of mice, it doesn’t take long before an unreported mouse becomes lots of mice. If you live in an apartment or condo, and there have been mouse problems in your building, you should:
VIEW MOREYou’re going to try to trap mice in your home. Should you buy snap traps or glue boards (sometimes called sticky traps)? Glue boards are convenient—the whole thing is disposed of, mouse and all. With snap traps, you’re usually disposing of the mouse and keeping the trap for re-use. Like snap traps, glue boards are nontoxic; you’re not using any poisons.
VIEW MOREQ. Why do I have more mice in the Winter and what should I do about it?
VIEW MOREIt’s our job to get rid of your mice but we can’t permanently control a mouse infestation without some help from you. You can help your pest control technician by pointing out any evidence of mice like nest material, stored seeds and nuts, gnawing, droppings, burrows or holes. You can also help us get rid of mice by doing the following:
VIEW MOREQ. The office floor where I work has a mouse problem! We can’t figure out why. We’ve had a pest control company do some trapping and baiting, but we’ve still got mice. Any suggestions for other things we can do to get rid of the mice?
VIEW MOREQ. Every fall we get mice in our home. Then we put out mouse bait and some of them die. And then our house smells horrible for several days. This cycle goes on for awhile. How can we get out of this mousey loop? I’m tired of it.
VIEW MOREQ. We keep a mouse trap in our garage at all times because of ongoing problems with house mice getting into the garage. This time the mouse we caught looks different. It’s more brown and white and seems to have a larger head and longer tail than the mice we usually catch. Is this just a normal variation or did we catch some different animal?
VIEW MOREQ. Do mice make semicircular holes in baseboards just like in the cartoons? There’s a small hole through the baseboard of our downstairs game room that looks kind of like it’s been chewed open into the wall space. And we have seen a mouse down there.
VIEW MOREAlthough you may think your home is relatively “tight,” in the typical home there are many openings where mice can enter. Generally, the older your home, the more openings and the more vulnerable you are to being invaded by mice. Young mice can squeeze under a door or through a crack and crevice only about 1/4-inch wide, about the width of a pencil. If the opening around a pipe or under a door isn’t quite big enough, mice will gnaw at it until they can fit through.
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