Rodents like rats and mice are usually in search of food, water, and shelter, and your Hackensack home provides them with all three. While they are more likely to invade your home when conditions have cooled off, rodents can be a year-round problem if they catch a whiff of food. They enter homes like yours in a series of ways, by climbing overhanging trees or using the sewer systems for rats, or sneaking through dime-sized openings for mice. Rodents are also known to chew at openings in order to make them larger, which they can do very easily.

On their way inside your home, rodents usually bring with them parasites like mites, fleas, and ticks. These pests pose serious health risks to both people and their pets. While spending time foraging for food and water inside of your home, rodents leave behind tiny piles of droppings, as well as urine and saliva, which contain pathogens that can lead to hantavirus, leptospirosis, and salmonellosis. The other significant problem that rodents cause is property damage, as they will chew on anything they can find in order to keep their front teeth from overgrowing. They are a particularly difficult problem to remove because they breed incessantly and live out of sight. If you suspect a rodent problem in your home, contact Alliance Pest Services for rodent control right away.