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If you’ve noticedsigns of mice in your house, try not to panic.
Wondering how do mice get in your house?
Mice have outstanding sensory abilities, particularly smell and temperature sensing.
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Given their flexible body structure, mice can squeeze through open crevices the size of a quarter-inch button.
The same goes for open windows, even if high up.
Thoroughly inspect your house pipes and seal any cracks, gaps, and broken joints.
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Once in the attic, theyll build nests, chew through ceilings, and nibble on wires.
To avoid this, double-check your boxes and stored furniture before bringing them indoors.
What Attracts Mice to Your House?
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Some of their favorites include cereal grainslike wheat, oats, and barleyand anything sweet.
Warning
Mice can contaminate both human and animal foods.
In the absence of water, they look for moisture indamp roomslike basements and attics.
Your garden may be to blame.
Even worse, mice are big fans of seeds and will devour freshly planted seeds.
Install agarden fenceto keep rodents and other pests away.
Obviously, not every fence will work, considering mices climbing and gnawing abilities.
Diseases Directly Transmitted by Rodents.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
