About mice and rats

• Mice contaminate food and grain more so than rats. In 6 months one pair can consume about 4 lbs. of food and deposit about 18,000 droppings.

• Quick to explore any physical changes in their environment.

• Capable swimmers if they need to be.

• Can squeeze through openings slightly larger than ¼ inch in diameter.

• They are excellent jumpers for their size, and can jump a foot high from the floor to an elevated flat surface.

• When rats are eliminated, house mice move in, or increase in population.

• Reportedly house mice will drive away deer mice and white-footed mice.

• Rodents can put livestock at risk of death and disease.

• Rodents can carry diseases to humans such as rat bite fever, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and plague to name a few.