Dead Mice In Attic

Where there is one mouse there is always more.

Dead mice in attic.

Check in rooms crawlspaces basements attics garages storage sheds any anywhere else you can easily access paying close attention to the odor levels. Try to locate the origin of the dead mouse by walking throughout your home and smelling the air. Spray a combination of bleach and water or some disinfectant on the dead mice or their nest. More commonly mice die in your attic especially in higher numbers because someone has applied a mouse poison rodenticide.

Make the disinfectant absorb the mouse or its nest for 5 minutes. Once i remove the dead animal s i mop up any bodily fluids and maggots i remove any soiled insulation and i spray down the area with a special enzyme based cleaner that destroys biohazard waste. 02 18 2004 the problem with dead mice in the attic is that they are hard to find. Deceased mice occasionally you may come across a dead mouse in the attic but don t think that the problem is over.

Put on rubber vinyl gloves. They hide in the gaps between boxes. The odor of a dead mouse is a mix of sulfur dioxides methane and other noxious gases that are produced as tissue begins to decompose. If you ve put rat poison in your attic then i guarantee that you have some dead rats or mice in your attic and walls perhaps several.

Properly dispose of the carcass while wearing rubber gloves to avoid being infected. Here what you should do to clean up the attic. This is because they love to burrow and they dig their way down into the insulation. So i have some work to do.

If you store boxes in your attic you will make it ideal for mice. A mouse may enter the attic through. Mice are timid creatures that prefer locations that have lots of safe places to hide. Carefully get rid of the mice after trapping the mice either dead or alive you need to get rid of them from your attic.

Even an empty attic is ideal for these timid critters. Openings around water pipes utilities and dryer vents outdoor water taps air conditioner connections loose siding gaps around windows or doors cracks or gaps in the foundation. So when they die they re already buried down in some tunnel. Mice run along boxes with one side brushing against them.

You must do a few things for preventing before you clean up the dead mouse or their nest or droppings. And they love to chew their way into boxes. Unfortunately this smell can be produced by any member of the rodent family mice rats etc that may have found its way into your walls attic or crawlspaces and died.