Your attic may be hiding a secret terror. Mice and rats can get into your attic and set up shop without you even knowing it. Before you know it, you can have scratching in your walls and droppings on your floors. Even your food could be eaten into and possibly contaminated.
Because of this, it’s important that you are in contact with a good Tulsa Pest Control company to eliminate any mice or rats in your house. So let’s talk a little bit about mice and how they operate.
Mice are very fast. They can run around a room very quickly, and they can be very agile. They jump high and swim fairly effectively. Their eyesight is not the best, but their hearing and smell are top-notch.
They use their whiskers to follow the wall as they run. They often will urinate as they run, leaving a path that they can follow whenever they run around a room. Often mice will follow the same path by smelling the urine and using it as a path. While this may be very effective for the mouse, the last thing you want in your house is a path of urine and droppings.
These rodents are at the bottom of the food chain. Many different animals feed upon them. So they have to be pretty prolific. While they’re very agile and quick, they are eaten often and quickly. So in order to keep up their numbers, they have to be able to reproduce very effectively, and they can.
The females can get pregnant once every 30 days and have a litter every 30 days. There’s no wait time after birth for the female to get pregnant again. When they have a litter, it’s 8 to 12 pups. And if you do the math, that’s around 120 mice produced by one female in a year. That’s a lot of mice. That’s very quickly.
Because of this, it’s important that you get ahead of their reproductive cycle if you’re going to control them. Many people will go to the hardware store and get a trap in order to kill mice. While they can kill some mice with a trap, it’s just too slow to be able to stay ahead of the reproductive cycle of these mammals.
The best way to do it is to use a rodenticide. Over-the-counter rodenticides can also be slow. Some require multiple feedings in order to eliminate a rodent. Rodenticides can also create a risk of secondary poisoning if a predator or scavenger eats a poisoned rodent.
Professional pest control gives us options for selecting and placing rodenticides appropriately and monitoring the treatment. Any rodenticide can pose a risk of secondary poisoning, so proper product selection, secure placement, follow-up, and removing carcasses when possible are important ways to reduce that risk.
Contacting your Tulsa Pest Control company is the number one thing you need to do if you think you have mice or rats. We’re good at what we do, and here in Tulsa at TermMax Pest Control, we can get rid of your rodents quickly and effectively. Call us today if you’re having a problem.
