Malum Southern Pest & Bird Control
Removing and controlling Mice
Mice Removal and Control
The presence of mice in your home or business can be very distressing. Sharing your home or place of work with mice is unhygienic, unappealing, and unsavoury considering their habits and behaviours, and the fact that they cannot hold their bladders and urinate frequently while walking along surfaces.
To identify a mouse problem, you should look out for:
- Gnawing: Mice gnaw continually on materials such as wood, carpets, paper, pipe cables, and furniture.
- Droppings: Often black, rod-shaped, and 3mm to 6mm long.
- Smear Marks: Smear marks are caused by grease from the rodents’ fur.
- Nests: Sometimes nests can be found indoors, for example, in lofts, under floorboards, or in airing cupboards.
Mice have been known to spread some nasty diseases to humans, such as salmonella and listeria, which can cause food poisoning. These nibbling nuisances have a compulsive need to gnaw in order to keep their incisor teeth worn down to a constant length. Electric cables, water and gas pipes, packaging, and woodwork may all be seriously damaged by mice, and many instances of electrical fires and floods have been attributed to them.
Mice can also ruin an organisation’s reputation. If clients and customers spot evidence of rodent infestation in the premises you manage, they are unlikely to want to do business with you.
