When cold weather comes mice and rats move indoors.

They leave those frigid burrows in the ground, and search for warmer environments. Your home becomes their winter retreat. And as if paying their heating bill for them isn't enough, you give them more food than they ever found face too.

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Once they make themselves comfortable they start finding for groceries. Before long they're invading your cabinets, chewing straight through food containers, and spilling the contents to spread them all over the cupboard.

Not only do they leave you a mess to clean up, they contaminate your food so you can't eat it yourself.

It commonly starts with a sound. As you sit watching television you hear the faint pitter-patter of tiny feet as one of these furry pests run across the linoleum on your kitchen floor. Or you hear the noise overhead as the rodents run nearby above your ceiling.

Then you start catching movement from the projection of your vision. You think you observation something running along a baseboard. You look up, but by that time anyone it is ducks behind a piece of furniture, and out of sight.

Soon those itsybitsy calling cards, rodent droppings, show up along the walls nearby your home.

Mice and rats are creatures of habit. They stay mostly near a wall. They like to run along the baseboard where they find furniture and appliances to hide behind, or under, when they see you coming too close.

As soon as you see these pests, or signs of them, in your home it's time to start treating for them before they get out of control.

Rodents not only dirty your home with their droppings, they carry diseases that you just don't want exposure to.

Pest operate techniques for rodent infestations come in distinct forms. You need to think each treatment method, and resolve which suits you best.

The fastest treatment for mice and rats is poison baits. You place the bait in a strategic location where it attracts the rodent, but doesn't scare the pest away.

Baits work well, but they do have one drawback. After the rodent eats the bait it crawls off to die (usually to a spot inside your wall). A day or so later that dead body starts smelling. The smell becomes a stink as the body decays.

A decaying mouse stinks for commonly no more than a week. A rat (because of its larger size) stinks for two or more times longer.

Another rodent operate method is the permissible placement of glue boards.

Place the board next to the baseboard where you find evidence of rodent travel. The mouse or rat runs onto the board, and becomes trapped by the glue. For best succeed fold the board into a tunnel. Rodents see it as a place to hide.

Glue boards commonly work pretty good. I once found one that caught a family of mice (a mum and three babies). I also found boards with mouse fur on them where the pest managed to get free.

Boards for rats are much larger than the mouse boards. While my pest operate days I had mixed results catching rats on glue boards. I caught a few, but most of the time I just found rat fur on the boards.

Seems rats are strong sufficient to pull themselves free of the glue.

Mechanical traps work good, and you have a large amount of choices.

Some are catch and publish that catch the rodent alive, and you take it far away from your home to set it free. Some are particular use that catch and kill the pest, and you throw the trap and all away after it catches that first rodent.

I prefer the old spring bar type trap (when I use a trap) because of its multiple use capability. Catch a rodent, take off it from the trap, and keep using the trap to catch more of the pests.

Which method you use is a matter of personal choice. The important thing is to learn how to properly position the treatment you choose, and get operate of the rodent invasion fast.

You may enjoy that pitter-patter sound of tiny feet, but not when it comes from mice and rats.

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