A mouse infestation can happen to anyone—and it can cause serious problems, from spreading diseases to damaging your property. Mice enter homes looking for food, and once they find it, they often stay and multiply quickly. One of the best ways to prevent this is by storing food properly. Unsealed bags, crumbs on the counter,… Continue reading
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Toronto Wildlife Removal: Mouse Gained Entry Into Home Through Drain Pipe
As development in North York comes closer to rural areas, it encroaches on land where wild animals currently live. This increases the probability of mice making their way into human homes, where they can remain undetected for some time. Shoddy construction work can contribute to a mouse problem by providing points of entry that mice… Continue reading
Unused Wall Vent Leads to Mouse Infestation
In December of 2022, Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control technician, Anton Sayer, arrived at a home in Niagara Falls with a considerable mouse problem, and the details of how the rodents got in and where they made their home highlights how inattention to construction issues can invite mice into a human dwelling. When it comes to… Continue reading
Where Are the Mice in My Home? 3 Ways To Find Unwanted Rodent Guests Quickly
Over the past few weeks, you’ve noticed tiny droppings along the walls, holes chewed in pantry boxes, and the sound of skittering and scratching in your walls. Is it a mouse infestation? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. When you find signs of mice inside your home it is simply never just one mouse. Mice are… Continue reading
Are Mice in Your Garage?
Sharing your home with mice is never a good idea. Unwanted rodent guests often carry contagious diseases and can damage the structure of your house significantly. During cold weather, mice often move into garages seeking shelter and warmth. Here’s how to know if you have a mouse living in your garage and what you can… Continue reading
Are Mice in My Attic?
Rodents are not usually aggressive to humans, but because they often carry contagious diseases, having mice in your home can be dangerous. Mice enter houses for a wide variety of reasons, and because they multiply extraordinarily quickly, it is essential to take immediate action if you think there is a rodent in your house. Mice… Continue reading
What are Mice Up to During Winter?
Where are mice during the winter, and what are they doing? Acting instinctively to survive winter may bring mice into your home, where they can cause problems for you. Here are some things you should know about what mice are up to during the winter. Do Mice Hibernate? At one time, it was believed that… Continue reading
Okanagan Wildlife Control: Mice and Pumpkins
Carving jack-o’-lanterns from real pumpkins is a traditional part of Halloween celebrations. However, carving up a pumpkin and placing it outside on your front porch could attract mice to your door. Not only could this spoil the look of the jack-o’-lantern that you worked so hard on, but it could also be the beginning of… Continue reading
Why Are Rodents Bad For Cats?
Cats make wonderful companions, and there are many good reasons to adopt a cat as a pet. However, pest control is not one of them. Cats’ hunting abilities were the reason that humans first domesticated them approximately 4,000 years ago. Cats still have a strong prey drive and enjoy catching rodents, leading many homeowners to… Continue reading
Wildlife Myths: Will my Pet Cat Help my Mouse Problem?
There is a synonymous relationship that exists between cats and mice. Many people automatically assume that owning a cat somehow protects their property against rodent infestations. While there might be some truth to the assumption because cats are predators of mice, a homeowner will find that cats and mouse infestation can coexist. A mouse… Continue reading
Home Maintenance Is Important in Mice Prevention
Dealing with mice in your home is no minor matter. They can carry diseases, ruin food and damage your home. Plus, they are quite difficult to remove once they are in your home. While Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control can help you with an infestation, the best course of action is always mice prevention. Fortunately, there… Continue reading
What Season Are Mice Most Likely To Invade A Home?
One of the most common household critters that enter homes in the area is the mouse. Many homeowners don’t realize that mice can invade their homes at any time of year. If you aren’t being vigilant and focusing on preventative strategies to keep mice away, you may miss a potential infestation. At Skedaddle Humane Wildlife… Continue reading
How To Humanely Maintain a Mice Free Home?
The beginning of fall marks the beginning of rodent season. Mice are most active in the fall as they search for food, water, and shelter that can protect them from the upcoming harsh winter weather. Homeowners report mice sightings more often during September and October than any other months of the year. With its proximity… Continue reading
How Do Mice Survive In The Heat?
The recent summer heatwave across North America has affected animals just as much as people. Like human beings, other animals, including mice, can suffer from the heat. If it gets too hot, mice can die. How hot is too hot for a mouse? What do mice do to try to beat the heat, and how… Continue reading
Do Mice Have a Mating Season?
Typically, when people think about wildlife control and prevention, it is before and immediately following winter. This thinking is essentially on par with most wild animals in North America and their breeding habits, but it does not account for mice. A mouse does not really have a mating season. It will not go dormant in… Continue reading
Why Do Mice Leave Trails?
If you are dealing with a mouse infestation in your home, you may have seen your little nemeses scurrying through your garage, under the cabinets in your kitchen, or even leaving droppings in your cupboards. Mice can be cute, but they can also be an insidious presence in your home that causes much frustration. You… Continue reading
How Can I Tell If I Have A Mouse Problem?
Cartoon mice are cute and cuddly and regularly engage in shenanigans with hilarious results. Mice in real life, though, are nocturnal critters whose presence will give off a noxious odor and potentially spread disease. Furthermore, mice can infest any home at any time. While winter is typically a period of lower activity for these rodents,… Continue reading
Where Do Mice Live Other Than Your Home?
You’re probably familiar with the cliche image of a woman standing on a chair, shrieking as a mouse scurries past. Why do so many people fear these tiny creatures when humans are so much larger? Mice aren’t venomous or aggressive like other wildlife, but they pose more insidious risks: Rodents, including mice, can transmit diseases… Continue reading
Do Mice Live Alone?
You might enjoy the silence of living alone, or if you live with others, it might be nice to have your house to yourself once in a while. Unfortunately, if you see a mouse, you’re not alone — not by a long shot! If you see one mouse, it’s highly likely you’ve got a lot… Continue reading
How Do Mice Enter a Home?
When mice move into a home, they don’t knock on the door and wait for entrance to be granted. They’re sneaky little creatures that look for any creative way to make a cozy haven within the walls of your home. You might have inspected your house and failed to notice a single place in which… Continue reading
Effective Mouse Control Needs Expert Solutions
Mouse infestations may be more common than you realize. They have been a problem for centuries affecting homes in both urban and rural environments. Fortunately, in this day and age, we have established effective mice removal methods. However, if you want to evict these unwanted tenants for good, you will need help from experts to… Continue reading
Why Window Frames are a Common Mouse Entry Point?
In cartoons, mice are often depicted as getting into the walls through large, perfectly cut arches. Unsurprisingly, this is far from reality. Instead, they are squeezing through tiny cracks and crevices to get in and around your home. Window frames are among their favourite points of entry. They are also one of our top priorities… Continue reading
Signs of Rodents Inside the Home
Although Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control offers an array of wildlife removal services, there are a few common culprits that we are regularly called in to help manage. Rodents are among the most troublesome for many homeowners. They are fast, tenacious, and good at squeezing through tiny cracks. If you are concerned about rodents in your… Continue reading
How One Way Doors are Used for Humane Mice Removal
Protecting your home against mice can be challenging. They are one of the hardest wildlife issues to overcome. At Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control, we have found that conventional mice removal techniques (poison and traps) are not effective as long-term solutions. Instead, we focus on mouse-proofing homes. One of our most effective solutions for mice removal… Continue reading
Utility Lines Leading Mice into Your Home
We have all seen how resourceful wildlife can be when it comes to gaining entry into your home. Raccoons can scale walls and shimmy down chimneys. Squirrels can use overhanging branches to jump down onto your roof and gnaw through soffit to get into your attic but don’t discount the ingenuity of a mouse looking… Continue reading
Mice are Storing Food for the Winter
Winter is coming and the time to prepare is running out! As homeowners are getting their properties ready to withstand the onslaught of the worst winter storms, wildlife around the country is also preparing for the cold months that lie ahead. When most of us think of wildlife preparing for winter, we imagine grizzly bears,… Continue reading
Rats Aren’t Always Front and Centre
Rats have plagued our existence for centuries. As long as there have been cities, there have been rats living in them. They have made themselves at home alongside us and adapt extremely well to living among people, in both rural and urban environments, because they are cunning and clever, and this means that it usually… Continue reading
You Should Never Rely On Your Cat To Keep Mice Away
As far as longstanding myths go, the one that says cats are natural-born mice catchers is among the most persistent. If you happen to be faced with a mouse removal emergency, there is a chance you may be thinking about getting a cat. However, before you do that, there are several things you need to… Continue reading
Mice Removal in the Winter?
With a little help, mice can easily survive the cold winter months. They use a variety of materials to help them insulate their nests and keep warm enough to live through winter. If those nests are inside your walls, basement or attic, it can cause damage to your home, as mice can hide away in… Continue reading
How Mice Get Into Your Home And How To Remove Them
Every single mouse problem starts with openings found on the exterior of the house that allow the rodents to come and go undetected. In addition to mice removal, a critical step in solving any mouse problem is preventing them from re-entering your house. Because they are exceptional climbers and can fit through holes the size… Continue reading
Mice In The Home? Call The Experts At Skedaddle For Removal
When it comes to unwanted guests in people’s homes and on their properties, wildlife is certainly at the top of the list. Mice, along with many other animals and insects, try to escape cold weather by seeking shelter and warmth. Often enough, people’s homes provide plenty of both, not to mention food sources. All in… Continue reading
How to Make Your Garage Less Appealing to Mice
Garages are spaces that homeowners use to keep their vehicles in top condition as well as to store items that are not used every day, such as sports equipment or holiday décor. While attached garages are quite useful for the homeowner, they are also spaces that mice enjoy. A garage is typically the first-place mice… Continue reading
Shut the Front Door!
As a homeowner, there are many things you need to learn about to properly maintain your property, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, the list is seemingly endless. You need to learn about these things to take care of your home and help save money in repair bills. Pest control is also a must. It’s important that you… Continue reading
Keep Those Rodents Away From My Home
Once mice take over your home, it can be a difficult problem to solve. Mice are persistent and able to adapt to different situations, creating constant problems for homeowners. It is best to learn how to prevent mice from entering your home, so that you do not have to worry about finding ways to get rid… Continue reading
Do Moth Balls Really Help to Get Rid of Mice?
So you have seen a mouse in your home, now what? In most cases, if you have seen one mouse there are probably more lurking about. Now, you have to figure out how to get rid of the mice so that you can reclaim your home from unwanted intruders. But what do you do? Many… Continue reading
Helpful Pest Control Approaches for Dealing With Mice
Mice have long been a problem for homeowners. Most every individual has dealt with a mouse problem in the home at some point in time. Mice are annoying pests that leave behind feces wherever they go as well as get into your food supplies, claiming the items as their own. For most homeowners, traps and… Continue reading
Mice Extermination Solutions
Before mice removal services can be provided, the home must be evaluated to see if you actually have a mice problem. Of course if you have seen mice in the home, then you know that they are present. When contacting removal service companies, your home will be inspected to determine the pest problem, locating any… Continue reading
Signs That You Should Call a Mice Removal Service
Mice appear to be cute creatures but most homeowners do not want them taking up residency inside their home. Yet, mice still do! Mice are one of the most common creatures to enter the home and in most cases, the homeowner has no idea until weeks or months later. It is important for homeowners to… Continue reading
Why Is Pest Control Essential for the Environment?
Today’s society is more focused on the environment than previous generations, with products and services now geared towards being more environmentally friendly. When it comes to home pest control, it is essential that environmentally friendly practices are used to ensure the well being of wildlife along with the quality of the environment. In the past,… Continue reading
Mouse Control and Prevention in Your Home
Mice are tiny creatures from the rodent family who have the ability to enter your home through the tiniest of holes. Mice can fit into openings as small as a dime and with their high reproductive rate, can multiply quickly leaving you with a mouse control problem in the home. Mice can easily go unnoticed… Continue reading
How to Stop Mice From Nesting in Your BBQ
Rodents are very adaptable creatures. And when it comes to winter they’ll do anything to get out the cold. Regular food sources can attract mice from near and far. To coexist with humans mice developed unique skills to cope with environmental changes and difficulties. Mice will nest anywhere When the temperature drops and we move… Continue reading
Skedaddle Wildlife Control: Preventing Mice From Entering Weep Vent
Mice have the same basic needs as any animal: warmth, shelter, and food. If your house offers these, then the mice outdoors desperately want to come in. Not every homeowner has a mouse infestation, so how do mice get in the house of some people but not others? Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control explains how mice… Continue reading
Are Poisons an Effective Way to Get Rid of Mice?
Is mouse poison safe for humans? The answer has significant implications for the health of your family. This video was taken by one of our pest control technicians during a mouse call in Hamilton, Ontario. This homeowner had been struggling with a mouse infestation for a number of years before seeking professional pest control services.… Continue reading
How To Tell the Difference Between Deer Mouse and White-Footed Mouse
It can be difficult to tell the difference between a deer mouse and a white-footed mouse because they are two different species of the same genus, and the differences can be subtle. Nevertheless, if either species is present in your home, you require professional mouse removal as soon as possible because both species can carry… Continue reading
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