Mice and rats are both rodents and both have front incisors that keep growing causing them to have to chew on everything in sight. While rats and mice can survive in the wild they tend to come to human properties to find food. The reason being is that humans dispose of more food than we consume, giving rodents unparalleled access to an unlimited food supply. Rats especially will multiply far more frequently when near a good food source. Rats tend to live outside of the home in the yard. If you have a bird feeder, a water feature or pool, or if you eat outside or have pets and children or if your home is close to forested land, all of these things will draw rats in. The rats will remain outside for most of the day and at night will enter the home and will search for food. If the garbage is not locked and covered then they may stay outside exclusively having access to food.
If you want to get rid of the rodents in your home, contact Rodent Control Mississauga to solve your rodent problem!
So how do we prevent rats from coming to the property and if they do, how do you kill them and get rid of them? Mice can smell terrible if they die in the walls. They have a very low water content so they will eventually dry out and stop smelling. Rats on the other hand are filled with water and drink water daily. When they die in the walls they will rot and there will likely be a stain showing on the wall and a smell of death and rot that will fill the house until the rat’s corpses are removed. This is a common event when people try to deal with rodent issues on their own. There are some issues, like some bugs in the basement or a minor mouse infestation that can be handled by domestic treatments but it is still much harder than calling in a professional. If you try to get rid of mice in your home and you end up with them dying in the walls the wall will have to be ripped down to get the bodies out.
To prevent the bad smell call a licensed exterminator. They have special chemicals and tools that can prevent rats from dying in the walls and to cause mice to desiccate inside the walls, leaving no smell. For mice in the home, we use tamper proof bait stations filled with commercial grade rodenticide which dehydrates the mouse in a period of two to seven days after repeated feeding. This is because mice have to gag reflex and need to test food before they eat it. Multi feeding rodenticide is brilliantly designed to take advantage of that fact. With rodenticide, it is now safe to let mice die in the walls as they will desiccate and produce no smell. Now, this process does not work on rats, for rats, they must be caught in snap traps and removed from the house, rats cannot be allowed to die in the walls.