MOUSE CONTROL
in Boston Area

The best way to treat for a mouse infestation is with preventative measures, such as filling up tiny gaps and cracks around the house, and also fixing cracks in the foundation. Store your food in airtight containers to make your home less appealing to them as well. 

When mice have already invaded your Boston Area home, it’s best to call Fox Pest Control to let us help you feel safe and comfortable again. 

The biggest problem mice will usually give Boston Area homeowners is contaminating food and chewing through walls, containers, furniture, fabric, paper, and electrical wiring. If it gets to that point, you know you’d better call a mouse exterminator like Fox Pest Control.

Signs of mice include:

Chewed cloths or paper
Discarded feces
Squeaks, squeals, strange noises, and movements, especially at night
Tiny mouse footprints in dirt or piles of food (eg prints in flour or sugar)
Holes chewed through food containers or in the walls
Unusual alert behavior of house cats or dogs

Even in the Boston Area Mice can carry diseases like hantavirus, leptospirosis, and salmonella. They can also be covered with fleas or ticks and bring them inside.

Mice have an extraordinary ability to squeeze themselves into tiny spaces. If the outside wall of a house in the Boston Area has any gaps, a mouse can fit into a hole the diameter of a nickel or smaller.

Mice can fit into gaps or cracks the size of a nickel or even a dime. 

As long as the mouse can fit its little head in a gap or hole, its unique bone structure allows it to pull itself through.

Once inside your home, mice will look for hiding places with plenty of food and water nearby, so the kitchen or food storage areas are obvious hiding spots.

Mice can eat a lot of different sorts of food, especially foods that are high in sugar or protein. With their strong sense of smell, they go looking for foods they prefer, and the typical kitchen is full of them. That’s why it’s extremely important to seal all your food — including pet food — in airtight containers. 

Body size. Adult mice are much smaller than adult rats. 

Feces. Mice feces are brown or black and about the size and shape of rice grains. Norwegian rat droppings are larger and more cylindrical, and roof rat feces are larger and more banana-shaped.

Tails. Rat tails are hairless, whereas mice tails grow tiny hairs. Mouse tails are proportionately longer compared to their body size than rat tails. 

Ears. Mouse ears are more rounded than a rat’s, and rat ears are slightly narrower than a mouse’s.

Body shape. Rats, especially the Norwegian rat, have more of a hunch to their bodies than mice.