Mice and attics go together like peanut butter and jelly. Ying and yang. Mice are highly adaptable creatures that like to live in areas with consistent food sources, shelter, warmth, and safety. Attics offer all of these features and more.
But having mice in attic is the last thing you want as a homeowner. We’re in the midst of a deer mice epidemic in Southern Ontario. Having mice in attic leads to structural damage, high costs of repairs, as well as health and safety risks as mice carry dangerous diseases like the Hantavirus.
If you have mice in your home, you must take action immediately. The longer you wait, the more complex, costly, and significant the problem will become.
Here’s what to do—and what not to do—to effectively eradicate mice in the attic.
Stay Away from Poisons
Rodenticides, or rat poisons, are never the way to go when you have a wildlife problem. Poisons are cruel and inhumane. They lead to significant pain and suffering. Most often, the mice will die prolonged deaths from internal bleeding.
Poisons are also risky to use due to the health risks they pose. If your pets or children were to gain access to the poisons put out for mice, they could be harmed.
Not only are poisons inhumane and risky to use, but they’re also ineffective. They’ll only kill a few mice, while the rest will continue to live in your home. And the ones that do die will decompose in difficult-to-reach areas of your home, leading to a horrible stench that will be difficult to get rid of.
Stay Away from Traps
Traps of all kind should also be avoided. Mice are quite smart, and they will rarely enter a trap placed to catch them. Again, you’ll be catching a few while the remaining mice stay free. Snap traps and glue traps are also inhumane, as they can cause a lot of suffering before death. They can also cause unintended harm to other animals.
Even live traps aren’t ideal. Trapping and relocation animals most often leads to their deaths. Being trapped is highly stressful to an animal and it may hurt itself fatally trying to get out. Even if you do manage to relocate mice far away from your home, they won’t be aware of the food or water sources in the area and they might be placed in an area full of predators, leading to almost certain death.
Don’t Waste Time or Money on Repellents
We cannot underestimate this point: rodent repellents do not work. You’ll only end up spending unnecessary money on ineffective products or spending time on home remedies that won’t solve your problem. And in the time that you waste, the mice will continue to cause damage and reproduce, enlarging your problem every single day.
Call the Right Professionals—Humane Wildlife Removal Experts
When we say “the professionals” we don’t mean exterminators. You’ll want to stay clear of exterminators. Not only do many of them use poisons and traps that harm the animals, but they also don’t get to the root of the problem. Thus, they won’t solve your mouse problem permanently. You’ll no doubt be dealing with a similar problem in the future.
There is only one guaranteed solution to mice in attic. If you want to effectively eradicate mice in the home and also ensure the problem doesn’t reoccur, you need to contact a humane wildlife removal company. Its technicians will use humane and ethical methods to remove the mice from your home in a way that doesn’t harm or cause stress to the animals.
But they won’t stop there. They’ll also find out how the mice are getting in and seal up any and all real and potential entry points, so no other mice can get into your home in the future. Then, they’ll also get to work on restoring your attic to fix the structural damage done by the rodents and decontaminate and clean up to eliminate the health risks.
When you have mice in attic, don’t waste time or money on DIY solutions or exterminators. The only guaranteed solution is to work with a humane wildlife removal company.
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