Keep Mice from Nesting in Your Northern New Jersey Home
The heat may make it hard to believe, but fall is right around the corner. Mice are already starting to look for warm places to spend the winter and breed. If you don’t take precautions to keep mice out, they’re likely to find your toasty northern New Jersey home the perfect place to raise a family.
A mouse in the house shouldn’t be ignored. Mice expose your family to dangerous parasites and diseases, including Lyme disease and potentially life threatening Hantavirus. Airborne particles of decomposed mouse feces can exacerbate breathing problems and trigger asthma attacks.
It’s not easy to keep mice out of your home. A mouse can squeeze through an opening as small as a dime. Because mice are secretive and nocturnal, you may not even realize you have a mouse problem until you start finding evidence of their nighttime forays into your kitchen. Mouse feces that look like small, black grains of rice are the most common indicator of a mouse infestation. Gnawed or shredded cereal or grain boxes are another. If you see any of these signs or if your dog or cat goes on alert, staring tensely under the dishwasher or stove, it’s time to call an experienced northern New Jersey pest control company.