Think You May Have Mice or Rats Living in Your House?

Want to Know the Best on Rodent Control?

Rodents, like rats or mice, can easily gain access to your home. Even a handful of rodents will quickly reproduce and create a major rodent infestation. They will get into food and spread their disease via their droppings. Once a house gets a rodent problem, it’s recommended to call an experienced rodent control

company to prevent a rodent problem altogether, which the best way to make sure that this does not happen.

Make sure that your property and garage are neat and debris free because these areas are perfect for them. Ro

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is necessary when that happens because it is a very unpleasant thing to happen to any homeowner. Rodents love to build their nests in debris, newspapers or cardboard boxes. Bushes have to be trimmed back to leave enough space underneath to avoid a perfect rodent nesting ground. Ground cover plants appeal to rodents also. A rodents nests can be also found in the likes of firewood storage boxes, so these must be covered and not have any cracks or gaps.

Other areas to pay attention to are garbage cans and any compost bins. Compost bins which contain rotting vegetables matter is highly appealing to rodents, so every bin should be regularly emptied. Metal trash cans that come with tight fitting lids work best to control rodents since they cannot gnaw their way through them or squeeze through any lid gaps. In a house, food like cereal, crackers or baked goods should be kept in storage containers which have no gaps in them.

Care must be taken when attempting rodent control

, especially with the likes of poisons and traps. Pets and children could be the unintended target and cause a tragedy accidentally. There are bait box products with which a rodent will enter but cannot exit. The homeowner just removes the box which houses the dead rodent.

Call Watfords Nuisance Wildlife Trapping of Camden based in Camden, SC for more information.

(803) 339-8301.