Rodents such as mice and rats often migrate indoors during winter, seeking shelter, food, and warmth. They can cause damage to homes and transmit diseases. It is important to take protective measures against rodents over winter such as using rodenticides, electronic traps, or glue boards. Preventing mice requires good food storage, sanitation practices, and sealing cracks and holes in foundations where mice can enter.

1. Mouse
Trapping 101
How to prepare for house
guests this winter.

2. Winter’s Coming Fast
 If
the past is any indication, homeowners
need to be prepared for any unwanted
house guests in the winter.
 Rodents such as mice and rats have a
tendency to migrate indoors in search of
warmer conditions, better shelter, and
easier food foraging conditions.

3. Why take protective action?
 Rodents can cause a lot of damage as well as cause
an unpleasant home experience.
 Could begin breeding within your home.
 They Transmit Disease
 Damage to:
 Clothing
 Electrical Wiring
 Causing Fires and Failure of appliances
 Mice droppings contaminate:
 Food
 Furniture
 Other Household Items

4. Tools for Control
 Rodenticides
 These are baits with toxic chemicals located in them
 Electronic Mouse Traps
 A humane way of removing rodents.
 Use bacon, peanut butter or raisins to attract.
 Glue Boards
 Pest Control Companies

5. How to Prevent Mice
 Betterfood storage and sanitation
practices will all increase the likelihood
that your home will stay mice free.
 Cover up all holes, and cracks in the
foundation of your home. Mice can fit
into spaces smaller than a dime.

6. Sources:
Information was found through:
The University of Kentucky
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef617.asp