Why Leave Mice Problems To The Professionals

There are many reasons a mouse infestation is best left to a professional. The most important of all is that do-it-yourself mouse control often fails and the threats that mice can present inside a home are allowed to continue. So, before we get into how a pest professional is the best way to ensure the complete removal of mice, let's talk a little bit about the dangers of having mice in your home.

Mice Problems

• When a mouse chews its way into your home, those holes can allow rainwater to get in. This can lead to fungi, mildew, and mold issues developing which can come with serious health consequences. Rainwater will also dampen wood and lead to wood rot. This can give rise to a wide range of issues from structural damage to the introduction of wood-destroying pests like carpenter ants and termites.
• Once inside, mice don't stop doing damage. They rip up insulation, sheetrock, wallpaper, cardboard from stored boxes, and other objects to gather material for their nests. As they do this, they can damage your home and the objects you have in storage.
• In an attic space or storage room that has stored furniture, mice are likely to chew their way into that furniture and create a nest inside.
• Mice leave their droppings and urine everywhere they go. They also leave it where they sleep. This waste can contaminate these locations and cause sickness for anyone exposed.
• Mice are a mechanical vector for harmful bacteria because they get into trash and other dirty places. This can bring illness into your kitchen or pantry.
• When mice come in, they usually don't come alone. Mice bring ticks, fleas, lice, mites, and other parasites in with them, and these secondary pests can spread diseases of their own.
• Mice chew through walls and through paper and cardboard packaging to get to food. When they do, they can contaminate foods with bacteria and diseases.
• When mice get into air ducts, which they are prone to do, they leave their droppings and urine in there and sometimes they die in there. These can present a biological threat.
• When mice chew through walls to get to food, they sometimes sever wires. If they gnaw through a live wire, it could lead to a house fire. That could result in a total loss of property and a potential loss of life.

We could go on—but you get the point. Mice are bad. Really bad. If you fail to eliminate them with DIY mouse control, they can continue to present all of the threats listed above, and more.