Winter Pests
As the seasons turn and the colder weather sets in, pests seek refuge in our warm homes. In the past problems with invading pests, just seemed to be disgusting, but now a state executive director for their pest management association has commented that pests like birds and mice, their feathers and excrements have been connected to salmonella. In the resent case of the Peanut Corporation of America, inspectors found dead rodents, rodent excrement, and bird feathers in the plant. If the plant had followed health codes cleaned and gotten pest control services, all those people would not have gotten sick or even died.
These animals can be transmitters of salmonella and this news has caused concern in our household. We’ve had problems with both pigeons and mice. The pigeons moved from one side of the roof to the other leaving their trail on the roof and in the flower beds for months! It was everywhere. During the summer the mice stay in the fields near our house and get fat off the grain growing there. Come winter they move their chubby little bodies through any space they can squeeze through to get into the house. The tail, tail sign of a mouse infestation is their excrements usually found in cupboards where food is stored or under the sink if there is any moisture building up there. I did not realize that pest control companies also took care of birds, but if they come back this Spring, I’ll be sure to call a Salt Lake City pest control professional to rid us of our annoying pests.
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