You work hard to keep and maintain your home. However, all of that time and energy can be for nothing if your home catches fire or makes you sick. Homes infested with rodents like mice or rats not only live rent-free in your home, but can cause fires, considerable property damage and make you sick. If you think you have mice or rats, contact a rodent control Chula Vista professional today.
Fires
Mice and rats cause home fires in a variety of ways. If they nest in your chimney, the nesting material can catch fire. If they nest in or around your heater during the summer, they leave highly flammable nesting material that will catch fire when you turn your heater on. Mice and rats chew on electrical wires. This can kill the rodent but not prevent a fire.
Damage
Mice and rats cause millions of dollars’ worth of property damage every year. Their small bodies can flatten to make them get into clothes drawers, crawl under doors and even get inside hard drives. Mice and rats will chew anything they can get their mouths on, including cosmetics, food, clothing, linens, curtains, papers, books, money, thin plastic boxes, photographs and wires. Mice and rats need to chew do much to wear down their constantly growing teeth.
Diseases
rodent like rats and mice carry diseases that can sicken humans, such as leptospirosis, hantavirus, typhus and salmonella. Many of these diseases are carried by their saliva, droppings or urine. It’s nearly impossible for people living in a rodent infested home to not get into contact with rodent droppings or urine. Rats and mice defecate and urinate on floors, closets, countertops, cabinets or anywhere they can fit their bodies into.
Parasites
Wild rodents carry tiny passengers like mites, fleas and ticks. These parasites can use the rodents like taxis to infest your home. If you have pets, they can get fleas or other parasites from mice and rats. Fleas on rats carry typhus. Fleas will bite anything warm-blooded, including you. In this way, they can transmit typhus to you and your loved ones.