House mouse

The house mouse usually doesn't cause serious health or economic problems, but like other rodents, it can badly disturb home life. For most people, it's already annoying to find mouse activity at home, let along seeing the damages caused.

Consume food. The house mouse can sneak into homes to steal all sorts of food to feed on.

Contaminate food. The house mouse doesn't eat as gracefully as humans do. As is commonly known, the house mouse is usually active in filthy environments and their excrement also contaminates food.

Destroy furniture. The house mouse gnaws on wood, which includes various wooden furniture at home, presenting a huge threat to home furnishings and wooden building structures.

Cause allergies. The excrement a house mouse amasses could aggravate asthma patients' conditions.

Transmit diseases. A house mouse acts as a transmission medium to multiple diseases including mouse typhus, rickettsialpox, rabbit fever, salmonella, etc.

Cause fire. Records indicate that the house mouse can cause fires by gnawing on electric wires and causing shortcircuits in a worst-case scenario.

Seeking shelter. Mice mainly appear every fall and winter, when the weather turns cold and house mouse and other small rodents attempt to enter warm indoor spaces.

Tracing food sources. The mouse diet overlaps a great deal with that of humans. They have easy access to many foods in humans' living spaces.

Cut off the inward passage. The house mouse, like other rodents, is likely to dig mines proactively near doors, windows, and wallboards to try to get in. It's necessary to replace the building materials at those locations with something they don't gnaw on. Additionally, use joint mixtures and steel wire mesh to effectively prevent them from entering through tiny cracks.

Seal food. The house mouse diet, like that of other rodents, overlaps greatly with the human diet. Therefore, foods at home must be properly stored and not kept exposed and unsealed.

Sweep and clean often. Dark corners and filthy spaces are havens for harmful rodents and other pests. Therefore, keep the living environment ventilated and increase the sweeping and cleaning frequency to stop the breeding of many harmful indoor pests. Additionally, clean places like the garage and firewood shed often, as they too are likely to attract rodents. During cold seasons, the house mouse can even sneak under the engine hood of automobiles to get warm. They may gnaw on wires and damage the car.