Mice are commonly found life species in your homes, and the innocuous looking house mouse is responsible for infesting homes in the US and Canada. Home owners may have dealt with them one time or other in the past and think they know all about the house mice. If it is so you should rethink because of the following information provided below may not be known to you. Knowing them will help deal with mice more effectively in the future. For the present if you have mice infestation at home call professional mice exterminators like BBPP, most efficient and easily affordable mice control services Newmarket to get rid of them. Now to the rare mice facts you may not be aware of:
- Mice have huge appetites
Mice with their size are not capable of eating large quantity of foods, you may think! They are in fact smaller and have even smaller stomachs but they make up that with their frequent snacking. A mouse can eat from 15-20 times in a day and there may be more than one mouse in your house. You will always find their nest near a food source because mice do not like to venture out too far.
- Mice are highly acrobatic
We all know mouse can run quickly and beat you with their speed. But do you know that they can jump vertically up to 2 feet in the air? They are also excellent swimmers and climbers thus they put you at a disadvantage. They will climb trees and run along branches to jump on to your roof or swim across swimming pool to avoid capture. They can collapse their skeletal structure to squeeze in to holes that are dime sized. They will be off in a jiff and use all these rare abilities to disappear from the scene.
- They are short lived
Mice have smaller lifespan and can live for 12 to 18 months. However their lifespan is determined by factors like availability of safe shelter, food and protection from predators. Rodents that live in homes have longer lifespan than the ones that live in fields and forests.
- Spread more diseases than you know
Mice carry several infections with them and also spread them among human via parasites like flea, mites and ticks lodged in to their fur cover. Some of the deadliest diseases are spread by rodents and they include dreaded Hantavirus, LCMV, Salmonellosis, Plague, rat-bite-fever etc, all these diseases are terminal if you do not take immediate action like treatment with antibiotics or hospitalization.
- Highly reproductive
A couple of mice can multiply in to hundreds in a single year. Mice start breeding at the age of 6 weeks and they deliver about 6-8 puppies in a litter and a mouse can have up to 10 litters in a year. This production cycle is applicable to all new born mice so you know you will be up to your neck with mice if you don’t check them at the very start.
We are sure that the information provided above will be of great help when your home becomes infested with mice. If an infestation has already taken place call BBPP, the best Newmarket Pest Control Service to get rid of it. The company is most popular in the town and also nearby towns and you can contact them on phone number 647-910-6315 or info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.