The typical mouse you find in your home has an excellent sense of hearing, touch, smell, and taste. They are good climbers, swimmers, runners, jumpers, and are capable of invading nearly any structure they wish just after the first cold snap (September, October), through holes as small as a dime. Once inside the home, mice seek out warm areas such as under stoves, ovens, dishwashers and fiberglass attic insulation.

Damage, Disease, and Risk

Mice constantly chew, damaging automobile wiring and creating fire hazards in electrical wiring, as they nest and play in attics where they leave droppings and tunnel thousands of permanent holes in fiberglass insulated attics, reducing the ‘R-value’ of the insulation by as much as 50%, after several years and several infestations.