Expert Rodent Control Services

There are two different species here in New England that we deal with when it comes to human interaction. 

House mice often invade commercial facilities, apartment buildings, homes, in and around city and urban environments. House mice are the ultimate survivor amongst humans. They love to live as close to us as possible. Once inside they search for harborage and food locations. and once established in a location they can be very difficult to manage. Often people resort to sticky traps which catches unwise juveniles but the elusive adults remain and the population continues to grow. The more educated the House mice become the harder it may be to remove them. 

Typical Service include trapping, Monitoring, and exclusion techniques to keep future mice out. In most cases house mice exclusion must be done on the exterior to prevent re entry for future infestations. But often times interior exclusion is key to try and isolate mice from  wandering buildings so easily. 

 House mice usually run, walk, or stand on all fours, but when eating, fighting, or orienting themselves, they rear up on their hind legs with additional support from the tail – a behavior known as "tripoding". Mice are good jumpers, climbers, and swimmers, and are generally considered to be thigmotactic. 

Mice are mostly crepuscular or nocturnal; they are averse to bright lights. The average sleep time of a captive house mouse is reported to be 12.5 hours per day.  They live in a wide variety of hidden places near food sources, and construct nests from various soft materials. They often nest in wall voids, kitchen appliances, and cluttered closets. Mice are territorial, and one dominant male usually lives together with several females and young. Dominant males respect each other's territories and normally enter another's territory only if it is vacant. If two or more males are housed together in a cage, they often become aggressive unless they have been raised together from birth

House mice are omnivorous They various human type foods and even will eat their own feces to acquire nutrients produced by bacteria in their intestines  

Often times when Rats move into a building House Mice will vacate or move further upward in a building as they are generally afraid of rats. Rats often kill and eat Mice, a behavior known as muricide. 

House mice have two forms of social behavior, the expression of which depends on the environmental context. House mice in buildings and other urbanized areas with close proximity to humans are known as commensal. Commensal mice populations often have an excessive food source resulting in high population densities and small home ranges. This causes a switch from territorial behavior to a hierarchy of individuals. When populations have an excess of food, there is less female-female aggression, which usually occurs to gain access to food or to prevent infanticide.  Male-male aggression occurs in commensal populations, mainly to defend female mates and protect a small territory. The high level of male-male aggression, with a low female-female aggression level is common in polygamous populations. The social unit of commensal house mouse populations generally consists of one male and two or more females, usually related. These groups breed cooperatively, with the females communally nursing. This cooperative breeding and rearing by related females helps increase reproductive success. When no related females are present, breeding groups can form from non-related females.

 Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) is "a viral infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord and of the cerebrospinal fluid".[3] The name is based on the tendency of an individual to have abnormally high levels of lymphocytes during infection. Choriomeningitis is "cerebral meningitis in which there is marked cellular infiltration of the meninges, often with a lymphocytic infiltration of the Choroid plexuses. 

Rickettsialpox, caused by the bacterium is spread by mice in general, but is very rare and generally mild and resolves within two or three weeks if untreated. No known deaths have resulted from the disease. Murine typghus  (also called endemic typhus), caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi, is transmitted by the fleas that infest rats. While rat fleas are the most common vectors, cat fleas and mouse fleas are less common modes of transmission. Endemic typhus is highly treatable with antibiotics. The U.S. CDC currently does not mention rickettsialpox or murine typhus on its website about diseases directly transmitted by rodents (in general).

Leptospirosis is carried by a variety of wild and domestic animals including dogs, rats, swine, cattle, mice in general, and can be transmitted by the urine of an infected animal and is contagious as long as the urine is still moist.