Many homeowners have discovered they have a mouse problem in their home, garage, or yard when they discover evidence of the pests, such as droppings, holes in food packaging, and greasy marks around small entry holes into their home. And once you find signs of a mouse, you can guarantee that there are going to be many more hiding out somewhere nearby, especially considering how quickly they multiply. To help you handle this disgusting and disturbing pest problem, here are some ideas and recommendations that you can implement inside your home and around your yard to take care of a mice infestation.

Use Smart Treatments

There are many types of treatments, traps, and baits you can use in and around your home to get rid of mice. There are also a lot of natural remedies that use oils and smells of common household items, such as mothballs. But using traditional baits and traps is usually the best way to get rid of and trap mice unless you want your home to smell like mint essential oils or mothballs.

A great way to start out by killing the mice in your home is to use poison that is part of a trap or poison that is enclosed in its own mouse-accessible housing. This type of poison will make it available to a mouse but will not leave the poison exposed for pets or children to get access to. You can also set your own spring-loaded traps that you can bait with peanut butter, which is the best type of bait. Peanut butter will stick well to the trap and not fall off the trigger area or be easy for the mouse to steal without springing the trap.

If you are dealing with a rat problem, you need to be a little bit more careful and crafty when you place the traps, which are larger than a traditional mousetrap. Be sure you wear gloves, and don't touch the trap or the bait with your bare skin or brush them up against your clothing. Rats have a very good sense of smell and will be able to smell your odor on the trap or bait and will avoid it completely.

Contact a Professional Pest Control

Trapping and killing mice can put you in a position where you may need to clean up some dead mice or dispose of a triggered trap. Along with this, you will also need to hunt down where your mice live and travel through so you can catch and dispose of them all. And you may need to clean up after a mouse nest, which can put you at risk of catching a disease that mice are known to carry.

However, you can also hire a pest control professional to come to your home, evaluate the infestation, and find out where they are living so they can best set up the control strategy. They will also follow up to check traps, place new ones, and manage dead mice so you don't have to.

To learn more, contact a pest control company.