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How do exterminators get rid of mice?

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Everyone wants to know: How do exterminators get rid of mice? Lucky for you, we’re sharing some of our pro tips. Read on to learn how experts get rid of mice. What’s more annoying than waking up and seeing your fruit basket pillaged by rodents? Mice have no respect for your home and how much you pay to keep it up. Send them packing like the pros do. If you’re wondering, “How do exterminators get rid of mice?” it’s time to learn the answer. Mice survive off an omnivorous diet but tend to enjoy plundering pantries for fruits and grains. They’ll eat through bags of seeds if you have them as well. If you thought enticing them to a trap with cheese would work, think again. They’d prefer your expensive chocolates instead. Better yet, mice take pleasure in hanging out in your garbage can.

How do exterminators get rid of mice?

Exterminators don’t show up in a ghostbusters suit and vaporize every mouse in and near your home. If they did, that would only be a temporary fix to the problem. A professional exterminator survey your home searching out entry points. Entry points are how mice and rodents get into your home. They start outside the home checking for holes and cracks. Mice chew through wood, so a hole on the outside of the home is an open invitation to infest. Exterminators also look for gaps near the windows inside the home. They check your doors as well. Yes, a mouse can walk right through your front door. If’s there’s a crack in it, of course. Exterminators seal off these points to ensure mice don’t reenter the home after extermination.

Pro secrets to getting rid of mice

Professional mice exterminators don’t turn your home into a war zone. You don’t have to cancel parties because rat traps are everywhere.

They use strategic means to lure and exterminate mice.

Exterminators place mouse and mice traps in clever spots in the home. These hot spots include your attic, crawlspaces, and corners in your basement if you have one. Pros never place traps in food areas or common areas where you and your family hang out. Mice like to travel close to their entry and escape roots. Expect to see baited traps in these areas as well as rodent poison. Rodenticide correctly deployed on the exterior of a house may be the preferred method for getting rid of mice. Traps are effective solutions, but the correct use of rodenticides is best for complete extermination. Follow up is important too. Mice populate fast. The female gives birth up to 6 times a year. Each of her litters can average 12 pups or more. One round of extermination may not solve your problem. Depending on the severity of the infestation, pros recommend extermination control once a month. Talk with an exterminator about professional means for maintaining your home against mice and rodents.

Get rid of mice

No more wondering, “How do exterminators get rid of mice?” Study these tips and start ridding your home of these pesky problems once and for all.

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