Rodent Control Done Right For Streator Properties

• Clutter: A rat or mouse doesn't know that your home is a great place to live. In fact, it can't even see your home. Rodents have poor eyesight. As they run on the ground, they use their whiskers and fur to feel ground objects. They use their ears as sonar and their noses to pick up smells in the environment around them. All of these work together to allow rodents to move quickly and efficiently in utter darkness. Therefore, the first step in preventing an infestation is maintaining a yard that is clutter-free.
• Cover: Rodents know that there are animals that soar above and swoop down to carry them off and eat them—at least on some level. When they enter your yard, where do you think they'll head? They're going to slip underneath a shed, hide under a deck, or take cover in dense vegetation. You can block access to preferred hiding places by using fencing made of hardware cloth. In your landscaping, you can make rodents feel exposed by trimming the bottoms of plants.
• Trash: Rodents can smell your trash from a distance if the smell isn't masked. That smell will bring them up close to your home. Store trash in a plastic bag, put your bag inside a clean receptacle, close the cover, and make sure you don't overfill your container which will cause the cover to be propped open. Along with these steps, it is essential to get your trash to the curb weekly. All of this is to prevent the rodent-attracting smell that leads to rodent problems. It has nothing to do with rodents climbing into your trash and finding a meal—though it would likely startle you to see that they can do this. 
• Openings: Rodents are thigmotactic. They love to touch objects around them with their bodies. They don't just do this for navigation. There is something comforting about squeezing into a tight space. If you offer a rodent a gap, crack, or hole, you can expect them to explore it. Often, it is possible to keep rodents out of a home by applying silicone caulk to key areas. Even though they can chew through the material, they may not try. The same is true of applying new weatherstripping.
• Pathways: Rodents can get onto your roof in many clever ways. They scale trees, run down branches, and leap as far as five feet to get onto a roof. They use pipes that run up the side of a home to get up there. Some exterior surfaces are rough enough for a rodent to scale as though they were climbing a tree. Trim tree branches. Install guards on pipes. And protect high entry points you don't think rodents can climb to, such as gable vents.
• Containers and Sanitation: If a rodent gets into your home and you deprive them of food, they may go back out and not get inside again. Protect your stored foods, remove food options, and keep your home clean to remove the food rats and mice want to find. 

These are some of the many ways you can naturally deter rodents and keep them from getting into your home. When you remove exterior attractants and hiding places, seal exterior entry points, and remove the reasons rodents want to live in your home, you're on your way to living a rodent-free life.