MOUSE PEST CONTROL DEVICES

Mouse Pest Control Devices

Mouse pest control has been an issue ever since people started living indoors. These small creatures can scurry through cracks as small as one-quarter inch in walls, spaces under doors or places where cables and wires enter the house. They can jump up to twelve inches, straight up. Of course we have a primordial aversion to the mouse: pest control is the first thing on our minds.

If you have recently seen a mouse, you may be uneasy about deciding how to dispatch it. Is it one single mouse, wandered in from a local field, or are there legions hiding in the walls and basement of the house? How worried should you be about a mouse?

In a single year, a female mouse will have between five and ten litters of five or six baby mice. In six to ten weeks, mice become sexually mature, and the cycle begins again. So even if you aren't emotionally troubled by the sight of a mouse, pest control considerations are important to the health of your home. Mice can contaminate food with their droppings and carry diseases such as swine dysentery and salmonellosis. They chew up cables and into cabinets and leave feces around the house.

Rather than setting out bait or traps, you may decide to buy an ultrasonic, electromagnetic device that emits a high-frequency sound that mice find intolerable. Aside from being affordable, chemical-free and simple to use, these devices also create an inhospitable environment for rats, fleas, roaches, spiders, mosquitos and silverfish. They plug into outlets, flooding your house and walls with sound that drives out rodent and insect pests without affecting dogs, cats or people.