Pest Control Tips

Pest Control Tips

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Hi my name is Kevin Chisholm I am a licensed professional mice control exterminator I’ve been in the pest
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control business for over 30 years my company name is maritime pest control and we work out of Edmonton Alberta with
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winter coming on now mice are looking for a nice warm place to go so here’s a perfect entry points a garage door they
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can get in there we’re nice and warm and they’ll make their home for the winter months
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okay here are some mice droppings we have we have about proximately 20 different breeds of Mike’s I think at
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this in Edmonton the most common one is the deer mice and and they’re known to give off that disease called hantavirus
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so so like when you’re cleaning this up you should use a 50/50 bleach mixture with water that’s the dust product
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because this can’t get in your nose and your system and ducting can eventually kill you so this is a rebar going into a
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house there is a hole here it’s just very close to might be possibly even seeking they’re smaller in this case but
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you can see great treat at home and it’s in the house then your problem start sick so I would lock that up either with
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steel wool or silicone mice mice use a firm own trail lock when they win they’re always Ramon so even two years
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later that smell will still be there and a new mice can command and go in the same hole they just smell a scent and
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they know they think there’s someone another mice in there so they will go in the same hole so these holes should be
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fixed this is a poison here we use and we put it in this childproof bait box okay we lock it up I’m gonna crush the
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key is the key that opens it now they go in this little hole here and they in their whiskers will find the black box
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and mice are very curious old dope they’re always eating like the beaver so they will find that most wasn’t very
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easy eat it and then go back their nests and die this is another perfect entry point for a mice ok they can squeeze in
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besides the whole of a dime size of a dime so you know so what Harris after I usually offer the mic sir
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dad I like doing just putting steel wool in here so I will show you and walk in their whole life
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so they cannot get in and they can’t bite true they cannot bite through the steel wall so works really well so the
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mice problem is usually gets worse than the wintertime mice want to come in the in the home say last year was the worst
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I’ve ever experienced in my 30 years of doing this this year is we had the storm one storm already and but lots of calls
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that one week it was just incredibly high they like to come inside when it’s cold of course so that’s when we get