Mice and Rats Invade Northern New Jersey Homes
Active year round, mice and rats are a particular nuisance in spring and fall when they are more likely to invade northern New Jersey homes. Seeking food to get them through the final days of winter and warm spaces to raise a family, hungry rodents will seek out birdseed and dog food stored in northern New Jersey garages. The host of tasty delights available in well-stocked New Jersey kitchens is even more appealing to these disease-carrying rodent pests.
With their tiny heads and flexible bodies, rodents can easily gain access to your house through holes or cracks as small as 1/4 inch in diameter. Mice can squeeze through dime-size holes; and rats, through spaces the size of a quarter. Using pheromones in their urine to mark their pathways, rodents constantly dribble urine and feces as they scurry across food preparation and eating areas, through silverware drawers and food-storage cabinets and into food supplies. A scattering of small, dark brown fecal pellets — they can produce 70 in a day — often alert northern New Jersey home and business owners to the presence of these nocturnal pests.
Any sign of rodent activity should be addressed by an experienced rodent control professional immediately. Mice and rats bring into your home or business disease-spreading fleas, ticks, mites and other parasites. Rodents are also known vectors for numerous dangerous and even life-threatening diseases, including bubonic plague, salmonella, meningitis, infectious jaundice, typhus and incurable Hantavirus, a deadly respiratory disease.