Facts about Mouse

HOUSE MOUSE

The house mouse is the most common rodent pest in most parts of the world.

A female house mouse can give birth to up to a dozen babies every three weeks.

That’s 150 babies a year!

 

MICE HABITAT

House mice live in structures, but they can live outdoors.

They breed throughout the year and often share nests with their "relatives".

 

MICE IMPACT

Even the smallest amount of mouse urine can trigger allergies, particularly in children because their immune systems are still developing.

Mice spread disease through bite wounds and by contaminating food and water with their waste products.

Mice can also spread disease thanks to parasites, such as ticks, fleas and mites.
These parasites bite the infected mouse and then spread the disease by biting humans.

 

MICE PREVENTION

Mice eat 15-20 times a day, so keep your homes clean and do not leave food out.

Be sure to empty kitchen and household garbage cans frequently.

Make sure that your home and storage areas are clean and dry.

Make sure that you clean your sheds, crawlspaces, and garbage cans often.

Close up any small holes and cracks they can come in through.

 

ANOTHER FACTS ABOUT HOUSE MOUSE

• House mice are gray or brown rodents with relatively large ears and small eyes.
• An adult weighs about 1/2 ounce and is about 5 1/2 to 7 1/2 inches long, including the 3 to 4 inch tail.
• Although house mice usually feed on cereal grains, they will eat many kinds of food.
• They eat often, nibbling bits of food here and there. Mice have keen senses of taste, hearing, smell and touch.
• They are excellent climbers and can run up any rough vertical surface.
• They will run horizontally along wire cables or ropes and can jump up 13 inches from the floor onto a flat surface.
• They can slip through a crack that a pencil will fit into (sightly larger than 1/4 inch in diameter).
• In a single year, a female may have five to 10 litters of usually five or six young each.
• Young are born 19 to 21 days after mating, and they are mature in six to 10 weeks.
• The life span of a mouse is about nine to 12 months.

 

They won't eat you alive and most of the time will run if they see you.

Unless you corner them they will not bite.

They can obviously carry diseases and as they run rats and mice constantly wee and poo, they don't have bladder and anal muscles like most animals so where ever they have run they wee and poo.

 

So apart from not being very hygienic they will chew wires and cables in the house so it is not good to have rats and mice in a house as they can do so much damage

They won't eat you, but they do carry various diseases, along with fleas/ticks.

They're dirty, and, if you have them, you need to invest in getting rid of them properly using traps.