As a homeowner in Newmarket, realizing you have a mouse infestation can make you feel alarmed and unsure of how to proceed when it comes to getting rid of your uninvited rodent guests. However, before you head to your local hardware store to buy traps or bait, we at Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control want to let you know about the advantages of humane mouse removal and how our measures for wildlife control in Newmarket can end your rodent problem and allow you to reclaim your home. 

Why Rodents Invade Human Homes 

Mice and rats seek out human homes to find food, water and shelter from the elements or from predators. As prey for many different types of predators, finding an enclosed place to build their nests allows them to establish a safe place for a variety of uses, including: 

• Birthing and rearing litters of pups
• Food storage 
• Hiding and sleeping 

Like most rodents, mice can breed quickly and may produce more than 30 pups per year. When you consider how quickly a colony can grow, the mice you see may be only a few of the actual number hiding out in your home. While you may wonder how to get rid of mice on your own, calling our experienced rodent removal technicians instead can help prevent some common do-it-yourself errors that many homeowners make when they attempt to solve the problem. 

1. Traps Do Not Remove All Mice 

Setting mousetraps, even those that catch live mice so you can take them outside and release them, will likely not rectify your mouse problem because once a colony grows large enough to gnaw into your walls and nest there, traps cannot reach all nesting sites and as baby mice grow, they will learn to avoid traps and bait. Over time, for every mouse you trap, a new litter with as many as six pups arrives, making trapping a wasteful, frustrating cycle. 

2. Mice Can Affect Local Ecosystems 

Using traps and store-bought bait to eliminate mice can upset the local ecosystem. While you do not want mice in your home, using bait may inadvertently poison other wildlife if they happen to eat a poisoned mouse while scavenging. 

Trapping live mice and setting them free may also cause problems if you release these rodents into an environment that cannot support them. This means the animals may starve or breed in places where they grow in such great numbers that even the presence of predators cannot control the population. 

3. Mice Carry Disease 

Trying to handle mice on your own is a dangerous activity, especially if you are not familiar with how these rodents behave. They tend to bite or scratch when handled or trapped, and since they can carry parasites like fleas and transmit harmful diseases such as salmonella, leptospirosis and most commonly, hantavirus. 

Even clearing out empty mice nests with a broom or vacuum cleaner can cause health hazards, since hantavirus spreads in the resulting dust you likely raise. This may leave you and your family vulnerable to the illnesses carried by mice. 

Call Us for Mice and Rat Removal 

When you reach out to us for assistance with removing rodents from your home, our technicians will inspect each affected area and remove live specimens, along with their young, and then clean up nests with tools and know-how that lower the risk of spreading dangerous diseases. They will also find and seal cracks and gaps around your home that allow mice inside or create one-way passages that do not allow mice to use or return to their usual routes to regain entrance. 

Keeping your Newmarket home free of rodents means more than using traps. Contact us at Skedaddle to take advantage of our many rodent removal services and gain peace of mind today.