Rat Exterminator Glen Rock NJ — Mice & Rats Removed, Homes Sealed

Mice exterminator Glen Rock NJ: why mice are the bigger problem here

Glen Rock is almost all single-family homes — colonials, Tudors, capes and split-levels on tree-lined streets, many of them several decades old. It sits between Ridgewood, Fair Lawn, Hawthorne and Paramus, with two train stations and a small downtown, but most of the borough is houses and backyards.

In neighborhoods like this, house mice are the most common rodent call. Older homes settle, and over the decades they collect small gaps: where the sill meets the foundation, around old pipe and cable holes, at basement windows, behind siding, at the garage door. A mouse needs a gap about the width of a pencil. In the fall, when nights turn cold, they move in and head for the attic, the walls near the kitchen and the basement ceiling.

Rats come up less often in Glen Rock than in denser towns, but they do come up — usually in the yard, under a deck or shed, feeding on bird seed, compost or fallen fruit. Both problems are solved the same way: remove the animals and close the way in.

Where mice and rats get into older Glen Rock houses

If you hear heavier noises up high in the early morning, it may be squirrels, not mice — see squirrel and raccoon removal in Glen Rock.

Kids, pets and the dead-mouse smell

Glen Rock families often have young kids and dogs in the yard, so we keep things simple: traps indoors, set where only we can reach them, and bait only in locked, tamper-resistant boxes. We avoid loose poison in the house. Besides the safety question, a mouse that eats poison often dies inside a wall or ceiling, and then you have a second problem.

That smell is sweet and rotten and usually strongest in one room or closet. We do dead animal removal from walls, attics, ceilings and crawl spaces, treat the odor, clean up, and seal the opening. See dead mouse smell in the house.