Rodents are the most common pest animal to infest homes, and the most common rodents are rats, mice, and squirrels. Rats and mice contimainte food, damage houses, and spread diseases.
Not only can rodents squeeze through tiny holes, but also rats and mice breed at a high rate. Typically, if you see one rodent, there are many in your house. Professional rodent control with Critter Control will exterminate the rodent problem and provide long-term rodent protection.
Rodent Control
Critter Control specializes in rodent removal and control. Rodent removal begins with a thorough inspection to determine how severe the problem is. The more established rodents are, the more involved the removal process will be. After inspecting, our wildlife specialist will build a custom solution to trap, remove, and seal all entry points.
Home Inspection for Rodents
During a rodent inspection, our inspector will thoroughly inspect your attic as well as provide a full exterior home inspection. The most common signs of rodent activity are chewing, droppings, rub marks, nesting material, and small entry points.
Rodent Trapping & Removal
Based on the inspection, our wildlife specialist creates a strategic trapping plan to remove the rodents found in your home. Types of traps, placement of traps, and bait used in traps determines the effectiveness of rodent trapping.
Our wildlife specialist will ensure to use the most efficient and safe removal process for your home. Though the standard trapping duration is normally between 5 to 14 days, the trapping process may be longer if the rodents are well established.
Rodent Exclusion: Long-lasting Control
Rodent exclusion is the best way to prevent rodents from entering your home, but many homeowners do not protect their home until they have experienced a nuisance animal. After rodent removal, it is essential to repair any entry points on your home. Rodents leave pheromone trails, and other rodents quickly utilize those scent trails.
Rodent Control Maintenance Services
Critter Control also offers rodent control maintenance services to keep your home protected. Rats and mice can be a continous problem. Our services provide rodent protection at the highest value. Critter Control provides warranty options as well as an estimate for preventative services to keep your home free future rodent problems.
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Rodents are usually black, gray, or brown in color. Their fur can be either glossy and sleek or dull and bristly. Most have small black eyes, rounded ears, and some sort of tail. Many also possess sharp claws on their feet that help them climb trees or dig tunnels. Gifted climbers, like mice and rats, have long tails, while burrowing rodents, such as voles and gophers, have short tails.
Types of Nusiance Wildlife Rodents
As they are some of the most diverse mammals on the planet, rodents can be found in a wide variety of habitats. Open grasslands, forests, deserts, tropical jungles, and even arctic environments host rodents. While some rodent species live high off the ground in trees and attics, others live in complex underground burrows. Some species even build their nests in secluded places beneath bushes or within the walls of houses. Many rodents are social and live in large colonies.
Since houses and yards provide plentiful food and shelter, rodents often set up nests on private properties. The smallest species are able to get inside through holes as narrow as half an inch in diameter. Rodents also employ their inherent climbing, running, jumping, digging, and swimming abilities to infiltrate manmade buildings. Warehouses, farm fields, and food processing factories are also prime targets for rodent infestations.
Too keep their large teeth at reasonable lengths, rodents must constantly gnaw. This behavior can lead to the structural damage of homes, as well as increase the risk of electrical shorts and fires. Mice and rats, tear up insulation for their nests, and burrowing rodents damage lawns, fields, and irrigation systems.
Not only do rodents constantly need to chew, but they also breed often. Squirrels breed twice per year with the potential to have almost 20 offspring each year while mice/rats can breed up to 10 times per year and have potential to have well over 100 offspring per year.
Rodents also carry a plethora of diseases, including leptospirosis, Hantavirus, plague, rat-bite fever, salmonellosis, and tularemia. Finally, they contaminate food and gnaw entrance holes in the exterior of buildings, which allows other pests to gain access to homes, as well.
The best way to reduce the possibility of letting unwanted rodents into homes is to seal possible entrances. Additionally, regular cleaning and sanitation helps eliminate potential food sources that entice rodents indoors. However, if the pests have already infested homes, individuals should never attempt to handle or remove them without professional assistance. Untrained individuals may be injured or contract diseases if they come into contact with rodents.
Modifying a house to keep rodents out can limit infestation problems. Exclusion methods include caulking cracks in foundations, capping chimneys, and installing mesh covers over vents and crawl space entrances. Even small gaps between roof joints or around utility pipes may let these animals inside, so thorough, expert rodent exclusion is key.
The type of rodents species found in your home will determine what type of trap should be used.
- With squirrel removal, the most common removal methods are live trapping, one-way doors, deterrent, and direct capture.
- When removing mice and rats, the most effective methods are using snap traps or live traps.
Many types of snap traps, glue traps, and live capture traps are commercially available. However, incorrectly placing baits or traps can make rodent infestations worse and lead to further damage. Homeowners should contact the pest control experts at Critter Control to handle rodent infestations in the most effective and humane way possible.
Are you finding droppings in the basement of your home? If so, then you may have a rodent control problem!
Rats, mice, and other rodents can become a nuisance when they come in close proximity to humans. In addition to spreading disease to both humans and household pets, rodents can also cause property damage and contaminate food sources. Critter Control specializes in rodent control and removal to help you get rid of rodents in your home or business. A variety of lethal and non-lethal techniques, including exclusion, habitat modification, deterrents, and trapping are available that may effectively control these pests.
At Critter Control we specialize in several rodent control services, including rat removal and mouse control, rodent damage control, rodent management, rodent prevention, residential and commercial rodent control. Our company consists of certified wildlife specialists and animal control operators that are trained with the most advanced rodent control techniques, ranging from rodent control through trapping to rodent damage repair, rodent prevention, and exclusion services.
Whether you have a rodent control problem for one pesky rodent or for an infestation, we have the expert rodent control services to help eliminate your rodent problems! Critter Control can install rodent traps and repair any points of entry to ensure that your rodent control problems won’t continue at your home or office.
Please contact Critter Control at 1-800-CRITTERClick to call if you have a rodent problem so we can provide you with professional rodent control services.
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