What Mice Infestation Means to Your Household?

by Clayton Clive Blogger

Mice infestation is bad for your household, but you have to live with them whether you like it or not. Mice have become part of our lives and our predecessors have been fighting them without much success. However new inventions and preventive measures have given hope that they actually can be exterminated from your homes. But it will need the expertise of a professional outfit like BBPP, the most popular mice removal Woodbridge for the town and for nearby towns to get rid of them. For you it may prove difficult if you have a colony of mice hiding in your home and you will certainly need professional help such as this pest control company to comprehensively eliminate them.

What mice infestation means to your home?

Mice can be highly destructive with their activities and they are also capable of spreading deadly diseases that have no definite cure. Here is what they will do if they happen to be living in your home.

Property damage

Mice can cause structural damage with their nest building activities. They will get in to holes or crevices found in your wall and enlarge them by scratching and digging. They do this to prevent detection and avoid predators. They bring instability to your walls by this activity and they won’t stop at that. They will go one step further and start scratching your wood furniture, woodwork, and fences and will also pull out stuffing from sofa, shred paper, cardboard boxes etc to collect nesting material. They will pull out yarn or thread from carpet and rugs and will also get in to your wardrobe to cut clothes to pieces. They will gnaw, cut, shred and nibble insulation, switch panels, wiring, sidings, drywalls and wiring of car engines. They don’t spare anything when they hunt for nesting material and anything that is spongy, rubbery or papery will be gnawed, nibbled, chewed and shredded. These materials are used to make cozy nests for their babies. You should call Mouse Control Woodbridge to hunt them down before the damage grows big.

Furniture & woodwork damage

If you find fresh gnaw marks on woodwork that are light you can assume that it is recently damaged by mice. Old gnaw and bite marks will be darker and some of the other nesting materials would include sponge or cotton taken out of mattress, pillow, and furniture cushions. Property damage can be extensive if number of rodents living in your home is greater. Rats are more dangerous and likely to cause heavy damage owing to their size and the size of their front teeth. Another thing that drives mice and rats crazy is the perennial growth of the incisor teeth they have in the front. Their constant growth irritate mice no end and they will die if the teeth outgrow them. Mice are forced to blunt the growth and they do that by damaging household items.

Mice can cause deadly diseases

Mice and rats are carriers of deadly diseases like Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, LCMV, plague, rat-bite-fever, and salmonella etc. they spread these among human when you handle them alive or dead. They can also spread the diseases through parasites like mites, ticks and fleas living in their body fur. An infected flea can bite the mice and infect them and mice in turn can infect you through their droppings, urine and saliva. You should always use gloves to handle them or call rat control Woodbridge to remove them. Mice can infect you with these dangerous diseases when you inhale air mixed with dust generated by dried up mice dropping and urine. You should be absolutely spot-on when you remove mice or clean the surfaces that have been contaminated or you will get infected easily. Keeping your surfaces clean and disinfected is of great significance if you have mice infestation in home. The above mentioned diseases have no definite cure so make sure that you don’t get infected by all means.

How to remove mice infestation from your home?

You can use conventional traps to catch mice and rats. This could prove successful if the numbers are small, such as 3-4, but things could get nasty if they are in dozens. Your best option to exterminate mice infestation is to engage professional services like BBPP, the best Rodent Exterminator Woodbridge and also for nearby areas. You can get in touch with them on phone number 647-910-6315 or by sending Mail to info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.