Bristol Mouse Control
We provide professional rodent control services to meet your mouse control needs. We promise to provide every service with a smile, and to your highest level of satisfaction.
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Mouse Control
The Best Questions To Ask
- Where Did Your Mice Get In?
- What Is Their Food Source?
- Is Anyone In The Building Immunosuppressed?
- Do You Need Professional Control?
It’s never easy dealing with mouse problems quickly if you cannot answer the first question. Mice don’t have parachutes, so they must get into the building somewhere at a low level.
We are the Bristol pest control alternative to Bristol City Council rodent control services.
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Mice Love Gaps Under Doors, etc...
Mice will squeeze through the very smallest of gaps and those under doors are a favourite that often gets overlooked. To catch a mouse you need to try and see the world through there eyes.
Mouse treatments should always consider how the mice entered a building. If the entry point is found and professional proofing is successful at excluding them, then you may be free of mice permanently!
Poison Doesn’t Solve Mouse Problems, it only controls them. The exclusion of mice is always the most desirable ambition and outcome.
Expert Pest Control Advice
10 Quick Mouse Control Questions Answered
- Do mice and rats live together? Sometimes, but in dwellings, rats tend to eat mice!
- Do ultrasonic mouse scarers work? Not for the people that call us!
- What’s the best mouse bait? On traps, it would be dark chocolate and nut butters.
- What will mice damage? Cables, plastic pipes, stored foods and any textiles.
- Do mice cause electrical fires? Yes! However, today it is rare because of modern trip fuses.
- Do mice carry and spread disease? Yes, they carry and transmit (vectors) several pathogens.
- Do mice bite? Yes, but rarely break human skin.
- How do mice enter your home? Any opening into or out of your home will be used by mice
- Is poison safe indoors? Yes, as long as it is used correctly and protected from non-target species.
- How do you know you have mice? Place a chocolate biscuit on the floor overnight and see if it gets gnawed around the edges.
Building Faults
Homes are routinely improved and adapted over time. This is amazing news for rodents and mice in particular will love gaps where pipes used to be. Often these holes provide direct access into insulated wall cavities, perfect to over winter. Invite our pest control professionals to inspect your mouse infestation today for trusted, lasting control.
Your professional alternative to Bristol City Council pest control services. We are different, offering ethical rodent control services - unlike many other Bristol pest control companies.
How to Catch and Get Rid of a Mouse
Bristol Mouse Control Services
Mice are among the most loved of all animals we often view as pests and we have many different species of mouse in Bristol and the UK. These include:
House Mouse (Mus domesticus & Mus musculus)
The house mouse is arguably among the most common mammals in the UK. Distinctively dark grey or charcoal grey in appearance. The number and diversity of parasites and pathogens make control essential!
Yellow-Necked Mouse (Apodemus flavicollis)
Yellow-necked mice have a distinctive yellow collar and are often a vivid orange-brown. A large mouse that often bites if handled and carries fleas, ticks and lice.
Wood Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)
Wood mice are extremely common but tend to appear in residential settings alone, as visitors under or through open doors. They are associated with Weil's disease and Lyme disease in humans.
Edible Dormouse (Glis glis)
The edible dormouse is among the least known and perhaps underestimated mouse like rodent. They carry diseases, parasites (sucking louse and fleas) and readily gnaw through cables, and other materials.
Most mice come in from outside, but some are endemic to our homes, like the common house mouse. Preventing mice in our homes and businesses is often just a case of sealing up any holes or gaps on the exterior skin of the building or gaps beneath or around windows and doors.
Mouse traps, mouse poison, and glue boards all have their role to play in the control of mice, but exclusion is the name of the game.
Mice carry and transmit many different diseases of medical importance to humans and with this in mind, steps must be taken to ensure all food surfaces are clean prior to preparation.
Mice are incontinent of urine and faeces and these deposits of droppings and mouse urine are dispersed widely in the environment making it easier for us to become sick if exposed to a serious pathogen.
- Salmonella – Severe and sometimes fatal food poisoning.
- Tularemia – If bitten by a rodent, tularemia bacteria can attack your immune system and lungs.
- Leptospirosis – Weil’s disease – a notifiable disease leading to multi-organ failure and death.
- E.coli 0157 – This frightening disease from rodent faeces causes renal failure and intestinal bleeding.
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis – Viral Meningitis that starts innocently like the flu.
- Plague – Very rare in this country but cannot be excluded from thought.
How Mice Spread Diseases And Parasites
Routes of Disease Transmission Include
- Biting – you, your children, family, pets or livestock
- Urine & Droppings – Infecting your groceries and work surfaces with urine and over 30 droppings each night
- Being eaten – by your pets
- Contaminating – pets and your pet’s food and water
- Spreading – blood-sucking parasites like fleas, bed bugs and mites
- Contaminating – water supplies, especially where they fall into water tanks
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We want to know your needs exactly so that we can provide the perfect solution. Let us know what you want and we’ll do our best to help with your mouse control in Bristol and Bath.
