You open the kitchen drawer for a spoon and are startled to see a furry brown mouse dart to the back of the drawer and disappear into the cabinet. Upon closer inspection, you find a flurry of shredded towel fragments carefully arranged as a nest in the towel drawer. Not only do you have a mouse; you are about to have a whole family of mice. Fortunately, your Ankeny mice control specialists at Pro-Staff have a proven method to not only remove rodents, but to prevent them from entering your home. 

Why you may have mice

First, it is important to understand how and why mice enter your home. Think about your garden and compare it to your home. Inside, the climate-controlled temperature remains pretty static throughout the year, and the availability of food and water is endless. This is far better than an unpredictable garden! What better place to raise a family? 

The entrance for a mouse to crawl into your home need not be larger than a nickel. Any gap where cables enter the home is an easy access point. The dryer vent is also a favorite location, or any holes drilled through walls, floors, or ceilings. The easiest solution is to plug those holes with steel wool since a simple foam or caulk can be chewed through quite easily by tiny, gnawing rodents. 

Why it’s never just one mouse

Many folks believe once they catch the mouse, they can breathe a sigh of relief and pat themselves on the back for a job well done. However, one mouse seldom lives alone; they have a large family network undoubtedly living in your attic or inside your walls. You may hear scurrying behind the wallboards as you walk down the hall and wonder how they managed to enter the walls. Chances are, mice live in the attic and climb down the wooden supports between wallboards. And that is probably more of a problem than you need to tackle, no matter how good you are at setting mouse traps. 

How Pro-Staff controls rodents

Pro-Staff has an exceptional 9-step pest control program to treat your home now and in the future, and they guarantee to control mice for an entire year. When you want to control your rodent problem longer, be sure to ask for a yearly rodent inspection and treatment, which saves you money and a tremendous amount of grief.

The rodent-specific treatment includes a granular repellent and baited rodent stations around your home’s exterior to defray rodent entry, baited granules inside your home in the areas where mice congregate such as the attic and in access points between walls, residual bait against walls inside the home’s baseboards or warm areas such as below refrigerators. 

Experienced pest control technicians will also inspect your home and offer suggestions on preventing rodents from entering, such as not leaving pet water bowls in easy access of mice, giving pets only enough food for them to eat, and storing the remaining food in an airtight container, and keeping all food – even wrapped foods such as loaves of bread – off the counter. It may seem unusual to store most of your food in the refrigerator, but if it prevents mice from eating, it may be a good call. Also, be sure to clean all countertops and floors before night falls and mice are more active. 

Call your Ankeny mice control specialists at Pro-Staff today at 515-279-7378 or contact us online to ask about our yearly rodent protection plan. It will be one of the best calls you can make for the safety of your home and family.