How to remove mice from an apartment? 
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The mouse has a number of advantages over most other pests that live with humans. How to quickly and effectively get rid of this small rodent in an ordinary city apartment, and also what factors need to be taken into account when fighting them, in which cases is it better to order pest control services in Moscow instead of fighting them yourself?
The structure and capabilities of mice
Unlike pack rats, mice always act in families. Before the birth of the cubs, parents leave their nests in search of food one at a time, and after the birth of the brood, the whole family. In this way, they teach the cubs all the skills of an adult. What a mouse is capable of, and why it is bad for humans:
- The mouse is the most agile and dexterous rodent. Their small size and ability to move along a vertical plane (small sharp claws) allow mice to get to almost any point in an apartment or house;
- Rodents have a very well developed sense of smell - if you drop a piece of food, then be sure that the mouse will smell it and come for it even from under the floor;
- nocturnal - animals come out mainly at night or early in the morning, when a person is still sleeping;
- the mouse moves silently; a awake person or even a sleeping cat may not hear their movement;
- the ability to hide well allows this small rodent to hide and sit out some danger until its source leaves the room;
- high reproduction rate, pups immediately after birth become carriers of infection;
- High adaptation to change and ability to cope with difficulties.
Is such a dexterous and agile carrier of diseases dangerous? Of course, yes, because its small size, survival rate and a number of other features allow this rodent to deliver and spread the infection anywhere.
Such skills give mice the ability to act so secretly that people living in an apartment may not immediately become aware of the presence of mice. Usually a person learns about them either by accident or when the mouse population is too large.
What do you need to know?
In order to fight mice, it is important to know their capabilities and key features of settlement. If we are talking about private properties with plots and sheds, then mice will settle inside partitions, in the attic, in the cellar or basement, if there is one.
In apartments, the mouse lives mainly under the floor covering; this rodent shows special love for the so-called “warm floors”. These rodents will come to any apartment, regardless of the floor: due to their abilities, they can easily climb vertical surfaces, find the necessary cracks and settle throughout the house. Next, they look for the most “nutritious apartments,” preferably without cats, and then start families.
The cubs born from those who came to this place may never leave the confines of one apartment, if it remains suitable for comfortable living.
The main thing that is important to know if you decide to fight mice yourself is that the rodent always avoids open, spacious places, so poison or mouse traps with bait should be installed in secluded corners where the mouse will feel safe.
The good thing is that in apartments you don’t need to bother finding mice’s lairs - it’s already clear that they live under the floors.
Fighting methods
The problem remains so pressing that hundreds of enterprises continue to develop new means of combating rodents: repellers, mousetraps (including humane ones), glues and poisons - all of this is constantly arriving on store shelves and marketplaces.
Recently, people have been relying on special ultrasonic repellers - do they work? They work, but the vast majority of these devices are simply fake. You can spend a lot of time and money to find a truly effective device.
Poisons are an effective remedy, but only if you deliver the poison directly to the entire population. It is useless to sprinkle it in the apartment, since you will poison either a couple of mice or one family when the parents drag the poisoned pieces into the nest and feed the cubs with them. Therefore, the poison must be sent directly under the floor.
Glues are useless, as they are designed for several mice. It’s the same with mousetraps. In general, such means will be useful if you find all the cracks where mice come from and simply seal them, after which you destroy the remaining individuals that could be hiding in the apartment.
The most effective is special poisonous gases that are harmless to people and pets, but this method is only possible when contacting pest control specialists. This avoids financial losses and long-term struggles. It is better to contact a pest control company; specialists will spray a toxic liquid (it turns into gas) directly into the source of mice and destroy the entire population at one time.