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mice

12 Facts You Didn’t Know About Mice

Alicia for rentokil.ie | April 4, 2012
The spike we normally see every year in mice infestations never arrived. When the temperature dips in November the phones start to ring from customers reporting mice infestations. Mice are opportunists and will sneak into a house or business if they can gain access and there is accessibility to food. Once they are in, they [...]

Catching Mice

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | March 27, 2012
I spent the weekend staying with a friend in London. As I climbed the stairs to her flat in now-fashionable part of  East London I noticed a number of mouse traps. “That’s to catch Mickey,” she replied.  She opened the door and another mouse trap was placed along the skirting in the hall next to [...]

Cockroaches and Cookers

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | March 15, 2012
The cooker cleaning man pays a visit once a year to chisel off the caked-on crumbs and other fossilized artefacts which bond to the oven interior like a barnacle. Nothing within my cleaning arsenal can remove the nastiness. No matter how much I spray or scrub the range it still looks a bit grubby. There [...]

Smells Like A Dead Rat

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | March 9, 2012
The saying smells like a dead rat should not be underestimated until you have had the misfortune to perceive the odor. Any pest controller will tell you there is little worse than the vile stench of a putrid, decaying rodent carcass, which lingers after the removal of the said deceased. Rats are a particularly stinky species.  Unlike [...]

Don’t Say Aloha To Mice

Guest for jcehrlich.com | March 7, 2012
My trip to Maui lasted five months, and it was just what I needed. I had recently ended a 12-year relationship and had met someone new. However, it was October, I was living in Seattle, and the notorious cloudy winter was beginning to set in. Needing a break from Seattle, from cloudy skies and from [...]