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When it comes to mouse control, the most important thing is swift action. You would be amazed at how quickly one mouse can turn into an infestation. These tiny creatures are prolific breeders, and every warm place in your house is considered excellent nesting by the mice. Mice are also tiny wrecking machines that can flatten themselves to gain entry into any space, and climb straight up walls to reach any place. The damage they do is with their teeth, not to mention that rodents are purveyors of filth and disease. You are most vulnerable to an infestation on sunny days after rain, or if you live near fields. If you leave doors and windows open and do not have screens on them, you will find yourself with one or two mice in your house and you must set traps as soon as possible in order to rid yourself of them. If you do not take immediate action, the mice will chew up all of the wires in your house, act as paper shredders, and even make nests in places like the oven and the dryer, or anywhere with pilot lights. In short, these cute little things will turn your house into a house of terror. Also, whoever first used the phrase about being quiet as a mouse probably never heard mice running through a house at three in the morning.

To control these pests, you generally have five choices. The first is to call a professional, but that is costly, time consuming, and unnecessary. The sticky pad traps are probably the most cruel of all methods. Once mice become stuck on these pads they use the most desperate of means to free themselves, and the results are often not something you want to witness. Next come the snap-traps, which are cheap and work well, especially if you use them with peanut butter. However, if you have nosey pets or children, you may want to try something else. Poison, if placed where children or pets cannot reach it, works very well. The reason is that you do not have to deal with the mice when they die. This is because the poison makes them thirsty in the extreme, and they leave the house for the outdoors, where they know they can find water, and that is where they die. The final choice is the easiest, if used the moment you realize you have a mouse in the house, and that is the humane trap. The humane trap, if a bit of peanut butter is placed in the middle, will trap a mouse inside without harming the mouse. You can then take the mouse in this self-contained cage and release him outside, far away from your home. Also, the trap is not a danger for any curious pets or children.

When it comes to mouse control, the best option is to keep them out of the house in the first place. However, with their ability to scrunch into small areas, even keeping doors and windows shut does not always work. However, if you should find such a creature visiting your house, you now know some ways to evict it before it turns its visit into a permanent stay.