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Non-Chemical Mouse Control in North Georgia

A mouse inside a wall void on insulation in the wall viewed from above by the pest control technician.

It's been said that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door, and there's a lot of history to back up that saying.

Mice have been pests of humankind for all of recorded history, and mouse control is one of the most in-demand services provided by exterminators throughout the world. People have been trying to keep mice out of their homes and businesses pretty much forever.

In North Georgia (and in most places), mouse control in urban areas is most in demand in the fall and early winter, when mice and rats start looking for warm, cozy places to spend the cooler months. In more rural areas of North Georgia, mouse control is less seasonal. Keeping mice out of stables, barns, silos, and other agricultural buildings is more of a year-round challenge than mouse control in cities.

The Common House Mouse

The adult house mouse, Mus musculus, averages about three inches in length (not including the tail) and is usually gray or brown in color, with white or light-colored bellies. They have relatively large and prominent ears, and their tails are roughly the same length as their bodies. Their bodies are fur-covered except for their ears and tails, which have very little hair.

Gap over baseboard in a living room in Atlanta Mice can squeeze through very small gaps: a hole the size of a dime, or a crack the thickness of a pencil.

The house mouse's skeletal system allows mice to squeeze through very narrow openings. An adult house mouse can squeeze through a crack about the width of the thickness of a pencil, or through a hole about the size of a dime. Once they get inside, they can travel throughout a home inside the walls and ceilings. That's why mice can be found anywhere in a house from the attic down to the basement or crawl space. Given a choice, however, mice usually settle down very near to their food sources.

Part of the reason mice like to stay close to home is that they have relatively poor vision and navigate mainly by smell and touch. They feel their way along walls and other vertical surfaces and are uncomfortable in open spaces where they are more vulnerable to predators.

Paradoxically, however, mice are also very curious creatures who readily explore new objects in their environments, including mousetraps. In fact, professional mouse exterminators often use no bait at all on certain types of mouse traps, relying on the mouse's natural curiosity instead.

Health Risks Associated with Mice

Mouse in cupboard eating breakfast cereal Mice can spread serious diseases when they get into stored foods.

Mice pose a much more serious risk to personal and public health than most people realize.

Mice are directly involved in the transmission of several serious diseases including Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and dysentery. They're also hosts to parasites such as ticks and fleas, which in turn are involved in the transmission of serious diseases including Lyme disease, murine typhus, and even plague.

In addition, because of their small size and inquisitive nature, mice come into closer contact with humans than do their larger cousins, the rats. Mice often get into kitchen cupboards, for example, where they gnaw through food packages to get at the goodies inside, contaminating the food with their saliva, hair, and bodily wastes in the process, and spreading germs everywhere they go.

Mice also get into drawers, closets, and other storage spaces more easily, where they damage and contaminate clothing, utensils, and other stored items. Mice are gnawers and nibblers, and it's common for them to gnaw little pieces out of every garment in a drawer, while also contaminating and staining the clothing with their droppings and urine.

Our Non-Chemical Approach to Mouse Control

Chewed insulation at mouse control job in Monroe, Georgia Mice chewed through insulation at this Monroe, Georgia mouse control job.

Most mouse exterminators rely primarily on poisons to control mice. They place bait trays or boxes in strategic areas throughout your home, and then comes back on a regular basis (usually weekly or monthly, depending on how bad the mouse infestation is) to refill the bait stations.

They do this pretty much forever in most cases. That's because you can't permanently solve a mouse problem using poisons. Yes, the mice die after they eat the rodenticide. But unless they're sealed out of the hose, "new" mice will quickly move in to replace the "old" mice. Mouse control done without mouse exclusion is nothing more than an endless cycle of swapping old mice for new mice.

That's pretty good for the exterminator's job security, but not so much for the homeowner. They're paying someone -- forever -- to not solve their mouse problem.

Fortunately, that's not how we do mouse control. Consistent with our emphasis on Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Rid-A-Critter uses non-chemical mouse control that doesn't rely on poison. We trap the mice, remove them from your home, and use exclusion techniques to keep mice out of your house.

Our non-chemical mouse control program emphasizes habitat modification, trapping, and exclusion as the primary mouse control tools. By preventing mice from getting into your home in the first place, we provide a more permanent mouse-control solution.

Our non-chemical, "green" approach to mouse control is also more environmentally responsible than using poisons because eliminating the need for pesticides also eliminates the risk of accidental poisoning of pets or non-target animals. It also eliminates the possibility of secondary poisoning, which is when a larger animal such as a hawk, fox, or pet dog or cat eats a mouse that has been poisoned. Finally, non-chemical mouse control eliminates the possibility of a poisoned mouse dying in your home and stinking up the place.

In the long run, our IPM approach to mouse control is also more economical because it's a more permanent mouse control solution. With good mouse-proofing, there's no need for a technician to return every month to fill bait stations. The mice are sealed out of your house.

North Georgia Mouse Control Gallery

Here are a few randomly-selected pictures of mouse extermination jobs we've done. (Stay tuned -- more on the way!)

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A gap of about half an inch between the soffit and the brick wall that allowed mice to climb up the wall and through the gap into the attic of a house in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Mouse gap between the soffit and wall in Hiawassee
The foundation vent had crept away from the brick wall, creating a gap of about five eighths of an inch between the top flange and the brick wall that allowed mice into a Blue Ridge, Georgia home.
Mouse gap behind a vent flange in Blue Ridge
A thumb sized gap around an insulated air conditioning line where it passes through a hole in the cinder block foundation that allowed mice into a house in Young Harris, Georgia.
Mouse gap through a cinder block in Young Harris
The screen behind a foundation vent cover is mostly rotted away, which allowed mice into the crawl space of a house in Big Canoe, Georgia.
Rotted screen allowed mice into a Big Canoe home
A wooden crawl space door has a fingertip sized gap along the hinge side because the hinges were installed improperly, which allowed mice into crawl space of a house in Rome, Georgia.
Mouse gap in a crawl space door at a house in Rome
The screen behind the metal foundation vent is pretty much rotted away, and that allowed mice to get into the crawl space of a house in Toccoa, Georgia.
Why this house in Toccoa has a mouse probolem
The screen behind the top left corner of the lattice of a metal foundation vent is corroded away, and the gap allowed mice into a house in Snellville, Georgia.
Mouse hole through a vent screen in Snellville
The steel screen behind the lattice of a metal foundation vent cover is pretty much rusted away and allowed mice into a house in Hiram, Georgia.
Rusted screen that allowed mice into a Hiram home
A gap in the concrete roughly an inch square under the siding near the garage door frame that allowed mice into a house in Sharpsburg, Georgia.
Mouse hole into a house in Sharpsburg
The space to the left of a rusty steel gas pipe where it passes through a hole about twice its diameter wide in the vinyl siding that allowed mice into a house in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Mouse hole through the siding in Hiawassee
Fingertip sized gap around pipes and wires passing through a stucco wall between two electrical boxes that allowed mice into a house in Jasper, Georgia.
Mouse gap through a stucco wall in Jasper
A metal screen installed over a foundation vent as part of a mouse control job in Blue Ridge, Georgia.
Mouse-proofed foundation vent at a Blue Ridge home
Droppings and urine stains in the insulation between the joists are evidence of a mouse infestation in the attic of a house in Buford, Georgia.
Evidence of mice in the attic of a Buford home
A gap about a fingertip high between the wooden roof trim and the shingles at a junction point that allowed mice to squeeze their way into the attic of a house in Cumming, Georgia.
Mouse gap into the attic of a Cumming home
Mice gnawed through the corroded screen behind a metal foundation vent to get into the crawl space of a house in Temple, Georgia.
Mice gnawed through a vent screen in Temple
The screen behind the lattice of a metal foundation vent has completely rusted away, which allowed mice to easily get into a brick house in Oxford, Georgia.
Missing vent screen at an Oxford mouse control job
A gap a little less than an inch high between the bottom of the wooden door trim and the concrete walkway that allowed mice into a house in Snellville, Georgia.
Mouse gap under the door frame in Snellville
The screen behind the foundation vent is  corroded and falling away from the metal cover, which needs to be screened from the outside as part of a Suwanee, Georgia mouse control job.
Why we\'re doing mouse control in Suwanee today
Gnawing damage to the electrical wires and droppings in the insulation are evidence that the attic of a house in Alpharetta, Georgia needs mouse control.
Evidence of mice in an attic in Alpharetta
The gap around a cable television wire passed through a one inch hole in the wooden siding allowed mice to climb along the wire and get into a house in Suwanee, Georgia.
Man-made mouse hole through the siding in Suwanee
The lower left corner of the screen behind the metal lattice of a foundation vent cover is pretty much rotted away, which made it easy for mice to get into a house in Clayton, Georgia.
Mouse hole through a rotting screen in Clayton
A gap of about half an  inch between the bottom of the wooden garage door frame and the pavement that allowed mice into a house in Canton, Georgia.
Mouse gap under the garage door frame in Canton
Droppings on the carpeting and a shredded tissue that mice have been using as nesting material are evidence that a house in Buford, Georgia needs mouse control.
Mouse droppings on the carpeting in Buford
An irregular gap about fingertip width at its widest point between a vertical piece of wooden trim and the concrete foundation which allowed mice into a house in Canton, Georgia.
Mouse gap behind the trim in Canton
A fingertip-sized gap between the bottom of the wooden door frame and the concrete walkway that allowed mice to get into a house in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Mouse gap under the door frame in Alpharetta
The gap over a P V C pipe where it was pushed through a metal foundation vent that allowed mice into a brick house in Suwanee, Georgia.
Man-made mouse gap into a house in Suwanee
Mice gnawed through the foam insulation on an exterior air-conditioning line where it passes under a hood and through the siding to get into a house in Snellville, Georgia.
Mice gnawed through the foam in Snellville
A fingertip sized gap under the roof shingles over the end of the rain gutter that allowed mice into the attic of a house in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Mouse gap over the rain gutter in Alpharetta
The screen behind the sliding metal foundation vent is totting away and allowed mice to get into a house in Carrollton, Georgia.
Why this Carrollton home has a mouse problem
A thumb sized gap in the brick wall where the mortar covering the spot where the air conditioning pipes and wires pass through is starting to crumble, which allowed mice into a Hiawassee, Georgia home.
Mouse gap through a brick wall in Hiawassee

Rid-A-Critter is Georgia's largest and most well-established non-chemical mouse control company. We have technicians living and working throughout our North Georgia service area. If you're ready to try a new, more environmentally responsible, and more permanent way to keep mice out of your house, please contact us for a prompt inspection by one of our local experts.

 

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Mice chewed around AC lines in a home in Hiawassee Georgia.
by Bin P.
Jun 01, 2023 10:19:01 am.

Sold a exclusion in Gray Ga for bats now to Griffin Ga for a dead animal smell in a commercial building then to Meansville Ga for a quote for animal exclusion, possibly more bats.
by Jason Arruda
May 30, 2023 12:31:31 pm.

A gap of about half an inch between the soffit and the brick wall allowed mice to climb up the wall and through the gap into the attic of a house in Hiawassee, Georgia. Mice are much better climbers than one would think considering their small size, which make non-chemical mouse pest control very meticulous work indeed.
by Webmaster
May 30, 2023 09:35:20 am.

Oglethorpe Ga customer having issues with something entering her crawlspace. Headed out to do a inspection.
by Jason Arruda
May 25, 2023 10:06:56 am.

A Foundation Vent that Crept Out a Bit from the Brick Wall is the Reason Why this House in Blue Ridge, Georgia Needs Non-Chemical Mouse Control
by Webmaster
May 25, 2023 09:48:17 am.

Critter truck getting maintenance then it’s off to Gray Ga for noises in the attic.
by Jason Arruda
May 24, 2023 10:23:13 am.

Do you want to know why we have a team of rodent exterminators doing mouse control in Young Harris, Georgia today? Okay, I'll tell you. It's because a gap around an insulated air-conditioning line where it passes through a hole in the cinder block foundation allowed the mice into the house.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:28:53 am.

A team of rodent pest control professionals doing mouse control at a Big Canoe, Georgia home is screening all the foundation vents to mouse-proof the house. The existing screens behind the vent covers are pretty much rotted away, which is how the mice got into the house in the first place.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:24:16 am.

Zebulon, Thomaston, Butler, Ellaville, Americus, Albany and Moultrie Ga cities I’ll be today quoting wildlife removal services.
by Jason Arruda
May 23, 2023 10:22:46 am.

A rodent pest control crew doing mouse control in Rome, Georgia is reinstalling the crawl space door to mouse-proof the house. The door has a fingertip-sized gap along the hinge side because the hinges were installed improperly, which allowed the mice into crawl space.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:20:47 am.

Exclusion sold in Gray Ga. Going to be another satisfied customer.
by Jason Arruda
May 18, 2023 04:00:20 pm.

Was able to squeeze another customer in today in Gray Ga. Issue is bats.
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May 18, 2023 02:58:01 pm.

In Tyrone Ga on a few exclusion quotes, then to Fayetteville Ga. Bats, squirrels and attic noise
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May 18, 2023 10:01:35 am.

Caught 6 mice at a house in Braselton Ga. Happy customers
by Chad W.
May 17, 2023 05:41:33 pm.

Sealing up a townhome in Smyrna today to get rid of a squirrel issue
by Brandon C.
May 15, 2023 08:35:18 am.

Doing inspections/quotes in Butler Ga., Thomaston Ga., and Griffin Ga. today from Snakes in a crawl space, bats in a gable and squirrels in the attic.
by Jason Arruda
May 11, 2023 11:04:31 am.

Wildlife Crews across Georgia and Alabama sealing homes, removing animals and insulation replacement. Be safe out there. Making customers happy!
by Jason Arruda
May 10, 2023 09:06:09 am.

The Screen Behind the Foundation Vent is Pretty Much Rotted Away, which is Why Our Rodent Pest Control Crew is doing Mouse Control in Toccoa, Georgia
by Webmaster
May 09, 2023 09:16:22 am.

Going to be in Macon Ga all day today quoting animal exclusions. Bats, squirrels and snakes.
by Jason Arruda
May 09, 2023 09:13:28 am.

Quoted animal (rats, squirrels) exclusions in Luthersville Ga, Peachtree City Ga and Griffin Ga. so far. We have a crew in Jeffersonville Ga. Doing Carpenter bee service.
by Jason Arruda
May 08, 2023 01:50:14 pm.

Today our North Georgia pest control specialists will be finishing up a Snellville, Georgia mouse control job. The mice are all gone and the house has been made rodent-proof. All that's left is replacing the insulation to get rid of the mouse urine odor in the attic.
by Webmaster
May 04, 2023 09:27:19 am.

Technicians doing mouse control at a Hiram, Georgia home are screening all the foundation vent covers from the outside to seal mice and other rodent pests out of the house. The existing screens behind the foundation vents are pretty much rusted away and allowed mice into the house.
by Webmaster
May 04, 2023 09:21:53 am.

A rodent pest control crew doing mouse control in Sharpsburg, Georgia is busy sealing gaps to rodent-proof the house and non-chemically eliminate the mouse infestation. We treat rodent problems in homes and businesses without using any pesticides at all.
by Webmaster
May 04, 2023 09:17:52 am.

Quoted a home in Fayetteville for squirrels and getting ready to go to Miledgeville for a Carpenter bee quote for a log cabin.
by Jason Arruda
May 02, 2023 11:14:43 am.

Albany Ga today quoting bat removal/Exclusion.
by Jason Arruda
May 01, 2023 09:22:28 am.

The space around a rusty steel gas pipe where it passes through a hole about twice its diameter wide in the vinyl siding allowed mice into a house in Hiawassee, Georgia. Permanent, non-chemical mouse control requires that any gap the size of a pencil's diameter be sealed to exclude mice and other rodent pests from the house.
by Webmaster
Apr 27, 2023 09:25:04 am.

Mouse control specialists working at a house in Jasper, Georgia are sealing a gap around pipes and wires passing through the stucco wall between two electrical boxes to rodent-proof the house. The mice were climbing up the pipes and through the hole to get into the house.
by Webmaster
Apr 26, 2023 09:12:39 am.

Calls coming in from bats to squirrels and everything in between. Visiting homes in the Fayetteville, Griffin, Newnan areas today. Exclusions are being scheduled! Happy Tuesday
by Jason Arruda
Apr 25, 2023 11:53:41 am.

A non-chemical rodent-control crew from our North Georgia office is screening all the foundation vents from the outside as part of a mouse control job in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Eliminating a mouse infestation without using pesticides requires meticulous attention to detail to make the house rodent-proof.
by Webmaster
Apr 24, 2023 09:13:24 am.

The droppings and urine stains in the insulation were evidence of a mouse infestation in the attic of a house in Buford, Georgia. Rodent pest control technicians from our North Georgia office are non-chemically treating the mouse problem, which will include rodent-proofing the house.
by Webmaster
Apr 24, 2023 08:24:37 am.

A gap about a fingertip high between the wooden roof trim and the shingles at a junction point allowed mice to squeeze their way into the attic of a house in Cumming, Georgia. Mice are much better climbers than most people give them credit for. Sealing every gap the diameter of a pencil or larger is critical to effective mouse control.
by Webmaster
Apr 17, 2023 09:54:49 am.

The corroded screen behind a metal foundation vent made it that much easier for mice to gnaw through the screen and into the crawl space of a house in Temple, Georgia. Our mouse control team is screening all the vents from the outside to rodent-proof the house and enable the mouse problem to be treated without using poisons.
by Webmaster
Apr 17, 2023 09:51:47 am.

Rid-A-Critter provides mouse control and mouse proofing in all of North Georgia, including Athens, Atlanta, Alpharetta, Canton, Carrollton, Cartersville, Cumming, Dacula, Doraville, Ellijay, Flowery Branch, Gainesville, Jasper, Lawrenceville, Loganville, Macon, Milton, Norcross, Rome, Roswell, Suwanee, Villa Rica, Winston, Woodstock, Young Harris, and everywhere in between.

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