While mice are certainly a nuisance when they’re living in your home, they don’t actually intend you any harm. Mice are on the hunt for warm, safe places where they can find food, create nests, and take care of their babies. Many people think that killing rodents found in their home is the easiest way of dealing with them, but humane mouse removal processes are actually just as easy and much more efficient.
With humane ways of removing mice, why opt for the option that is less efficient and harms animals that don’t intend any physical harm themselves? Here are some of the reasons humane mouse removal processes make more sense than crueler measures.
Harmful to Biodiversity
When poisons are used to deal with mouse infestations, the repercussions of using that poison often extend far further than your home. Rodenticides or pesticides designed to kill mice and rats have been shown to have an adverse effect on local biodiversity. Baits with rodenticide tend to attract other animals, from other wildlife in the area to domesticated pets that might live in your home. Once ingested, animals will experience internal hemorrhaging that eventually leads to death.
Insects won’t die from rodenticide, but they will carry the toxins with them, increasing the chances that other biodiversity will come in contact with it. Mice themselves won’t die right away from rodenticide. Instead, the poison will take a few days, in which time the mice become drowsy and weak. If they leave your home, they’ll thus become easy targets for predators who will also ingest the poison should they catch their prey.
Humane mouse removal processes don’t use harmful poisons or chemicals, meaning that they have no adverse effects on the local biodiversity.
Inefficient
Not only are traps, baits, and poisons unnecessarily cruel and harmful to the biosphere, but they’re also fairly inefficient at dealing with mouse infestation problems. While a trap might catch the mice that enter into open living spaces, they do nothing about the mice that are living in more inaccessible areas in your home, like within the walls or roofs of your house.
If you’ve found a mouse in your home, it’s likely you have numerous more hiding elsewhere. Mice live in groups and their numbers swell very quickly. Traps and baits that are designed to catch a single mouse aren’t going to solve a growing infestation problem. Humane mouse removal makes sure that all of the mice from your home are removed efficiently and quickly, with no harm to the animals. They also ensure that those mice can’t get back into your home—something else that traps, baits, and poisons won’t do for you.
Possible Dangers
You should never touch a mouse you’ve found in your home and you should certainly not try and remove one or remove any of the matter it’s left behind as evidence. Mice are known carriers of disease and touching mice or touching any pellets or urine they’ve scattered can pose a significant health risk.
Deer mice in particular are carriers of the Hantavirus, a pulmonary infection that can be fatal. Trying to catch mice on your own through traps or baits is more likely to bring you in contact with the animals and they’re urine, feces, and saliva, all of which can transmit the disease.
The inefficiency of these inhumane methods is another reason you’ll want to call a humane removal service right away should you find any mice in your home. Even if you do set up your own traps, they often won’t work, and the threat of contamination means you need to get mice out of your home immediately.
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