What Damage Can Mice Cause to Your Home Structure and Food?

Pests are menace and unwanted nuisance as they are able to cause extensive damage to household items. Mice are most annoying and frustrating thing about mice infestation is your inability to remove them without outside help. You will feel helpless when you wake up in the morning and find your kitchen floor is sprinkled with liberal quantity of cereals. You would also find, if you look close, mice droppings, urine stains on the floor as well as the food items they have spilled last night. They won’t spare anything when it concerns quenching their thirst for food and will eat anything that comes their way without discriminating. Besides depleting your food stock and causing money loss they are also capable of spreading deadly diseases among residents. This they will do through direct contact or through contaminated surface and food items. If you are a case of suffering severe mice infestation you should make sure to call an expert like BBPP, most effective mouse control services Vaughan and entrust the job of comprehensive mouse removal from your premises.

Types of damages rats and mice can cause

Structural Damage

Rodents can cause extensive damage to your structure irrespective of it being a lone standing house or a condo apartment, office or villa. They will gnaw and chew articles and cause significant amount of disfiguration of furniture, which you will restore at high costs. They will also eat into your walls to enlarge their nesting place so they could build more nests and inhabit them with more of their ilk.   Besides structural damage they can also irreparable damage to clothing, important documents, heirlooms, and damages to home appliances, electric wiring, mattresses, sofas, electronic items, switch panels etc. You will restore them at high cost and also suffer from inconvenience and anxiety during the process. Mice can set your home ablaze by short circuiting live wires and can disrupt your life activities by damaging gadgets that you use routinely.

Food damage

Mice eat very less amount of food at a time, but will eat 10 or more times a day and in the process consume considerable amount of food by eating and spilling. They don’t respect anything that belongs to you or anybody and will contaminate the food items they spilled on the floor by urinating on them and defecating. This is deadly activity because the contamination not only spoils the food but also make play catalyst for a number of rodent carried infections. Besides food items that you consume, they will also eat and contaminate bird seeds, cattle feed and pet food items. if you consume foods that were contaminated by mice droppings you are likely to fall victim to the following diseases:

  • Hantavirus
  • Leptospirosis
  • Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCMV)
  • Salmonella
  • Tularemia
  • Cholera
  • Plague
  • Rat-bite-fever

The above mentioned diseases are of deadly kind and are capable of causing lethal consequences to human. You will have to safeguard your food items by storing them in impenetrable containers such as metal or thick plastic.  Mice have this habit of chewing, gnawing or nibbling at anything that is on their way to check the growth of their front teeth that keep growing and capable of killing mice with their unmanageable growth.

If you have mice and have already suffered or suffering from the above call BBPP, most professional Vaughan pest control service, and for nearby areas and effectively remove mice presence from your home. You can contact the pest control company on phone number 647-910-6315 or by sending mail to info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.

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