RODENT CONTROL exterminator Coachella Valley
COACHELLA VALLEY RODENT TREATMENT
How To Identify A Rodent Infestation
Appearance- Rats and mice are the most commonly problematic rodents in houses and businesses. Deer mice, house mice, Norway rats, and roof rats are all found in the United States.
Behavior - You may see a mouse or rat scurrying away when you open a garage door, shed, or cabinet. At times rodents will be brazen enough to run right across the floor in front of you. Seeing rodent droppings is often the first sign that a rodent has taken up residence in your home.
Why You Might Have Rodents
Rodents are looking to make their way inside, away from the elements. The time of year and temperature could play a role in why they are taking up residence in your home, either to keep warm or cool or to find a place to nest during mating season. Rodents will also seek out food sources in your house, garage, and shed.
Reasons To Treat Your Rodent Problem Immediately
While some rodents may be less physically threatening than others, all rodents pose a threat once inside your Coachella Valley home. They can be carriers of diseases, bacteria, and viruses, and the presence of rodent feces and urine can pose health risks to you and your family members.
Rodents such as mice or rats can procreate at a very alarming rate, which could end up in dozens of unwanted guests in your home within just a year. Call us for professional Coachella Valley rodent control.
Coachella VALLEY MOUSE CONTROL
COACHELLA VALLEY MOUSE TREATMENT
How To Identify A Mouse Infestation
Appearance - Mice are rodents, usually between 3-4 inches long. They are fur covered and may be grayish or brown depending on the type. Mice do have hair on their tails, although it is shorter and finer than that on their bodies.
Behavior - Some of the first signs of a mouse infestation could be mouse droppings or a urine smell. Mouse droppings are about the size of a grain of rice and black in color. They will enter homes in the colder months seeking shelter and food. Pantry items eaten in cabinets, chewed paper, and other damaged paper products potentially used for mouse nests could be a sign of a mouse problem. Mice can have litters every 3 weeks.
Why You Might Have Mice
Depending on the season or weather, mice will enter your home to keep warm, seek shelter or find a place to start a very large family. Homes and their foundations offer many things mice need such as food, items to create their nests and simply a place to be left unharmed. If you have holes in your walls or foundation, these may be convenient entrances for mice to seek shelter and reproduce, quickly creating mice infestation problems.
Reasons To Treat Your Mice Problem Immediately
First and foremost, mice can reproduce quickly. Just having two mice living within the walls of your Coachella Valley home can spawn 40 offspring in a year. Now multiply that by each new offspring, and you will have a massive headache.
Mouse droppings can carry dangerous bacteria and viruses. Exposure to mouse droppings can lead to salmonella or hantavirus, ticks carried by mice can lead to Lymes disease, and fleas from mice can cause allergic reactions and rashes.
Property damage can also become an issue as mice chew up your furniture, clothes and even the wiring in your home- leading to costly electrical repairs.
You may think a quick fix is putting poison down, but that is not a permanent fix and can be risky in it, especially if you have children or pets. Call us to perform professional Coachella Valley mouse control can ensure the mouse problem will not present itself at your home again.
Coachella VALLEY RAT CONTROL
COACHELLA VALLEY RAT TREATMENT
How To Identify A Rat Infestation
Appearance - Rats have red eyes, and black or white fur. They are typically 6-10 inches long (depending on the type) with a hairless tail. Brown rats (also known as Norway rats) are slightly larger than roof rats, with a thicker body, smaller eyes, and a shorter snout than their black rat cousins.
Behavior - Rats tend to be bigger than mice and other rodents, and are often found in basements, garages, near garbage disposals and occasionally scurrying inside your home. They are nocturnal. Any holes or gaps in your home can be an entrance for rats, as they can fit into holes as small as half an inch. Rat droppings are pellet-like in appearance, dark colored, and about ¼ inch long.
Why You Might Have Rats
Rats, like any other species, need a place to live and breed. Homes, garages, and apartments provide the perfect location for rats to keep safe and be able to eat, sleep and reproduce without disruption.
Holes in your foundation or walls that lead from a basement or outside are an opportunistic entrance for rats to find their new accommodations within your Coachella Valley residence. Being able to fit in ½ inch or less spaces gives rats a leg up in entering your home, even if you have tried to fill in obvious holes and gaps in your walls and foundation.
Having rats does not mean you live in unhealthy conditions, but having food sources accessible could entice a rat to enter and begin living in your home. Professional rat control is recommended before one rat turns into a full blown rat infestation.
Reasons To Treat Your Rat Problem Immediately
Rats tend to scrounge through garbage for food, and this causes them to be carriers of many different bacteria and diseases. They are also known for being carriers of fleas and ticks due to the conditions they tend to live in. Flea bites from rats can cause extreme allergic reactions and ticks can carry Lymes disease.
Beyond topical threats, the bacteria carried on rats can cause leptospirosis, which can affect the liver and kidneys, and salmonellosis, which produces cramping and diarrhea. Their droppings can also harbor a bad virus called hantavirus.
Rat infestations can cause you and your family to become very sick if left untreated.