Houston Area Rodent Control, Extermination, & Removal

Rodent droppings resemble small, dark grains of rice, and can indicate the type of rodent infestation you are experiencing in your home, be that mice or rats. Rat droppings tend to be slightly larger, ranging from half of an inch to three-quarters of an inch long. Mice droppings, on the other hand, are only about an eighth of an inch to at most a quarter of an inch long.

Rodent droppings resemble small, dark grains of rice, and can indicate the type of rodent infestation you are experiencing in your home, be that mice or rats. Rat droppings tend to be slightly larger, ranging from half of an inch to three-quarters of an inch long. Mice droppings, on the other hand, are only about an eighth of an inch to at most a quarter of an inch long.

If you have recently noticed a musty, urine odor in your home and cannot seem to find the source, the likely culprit is rodents. They can leave their smell throughout the entire house and in your walls, though cabinets and pantries are typically where the smell is the strongest.

Oil from a rodent’s sebaceous gland often accumulates on their fur, which in turn leaves dark marks in areas where they are repeatedly scurrying along or squeezing themselves into, which we call a rub mark. The more a rodent rubs against something, or the greater the number of rodents doing so, the darker the rub mark will be. If you are able to smear the rub mark, that means they are fresh and you have a rodent infestation on your hands.

Gnaw marks are another sign of a rodent infestation in your home. Rodents tend to chew through a large variety of materials in order to gain better access to certain areas of your house in the search of food and water or to get into various food packagings so they can eat. They will also gnaw on wood such as baseboards and shelves in order to keep their teeth sharp. Look for extremely small, uneven bite marks, including on wires that connect your electrical equipment to outlets, as mice and rats are known to chew on those as well.