“We think like a rodent and understand what a rodent likes. We’ve researched different flavours, different textures; wheat bait, gel bait, block bait, with different shapes to encourage gnawing. Different bait boxes to provide the ideal feeding environment. It’s all about out-thinking rodents, and our competitors.”

Understanding Mouse Behaviour

mouse Mice are similar to rats in many elements of their daily, seasonal and annual behaviour, living in family groups, feeding almost exclusively at night and actively seeking cover and concealment.

They do, however, live almost exclusively inside, and are markedly more inquisitive than rats, actively investigating rather than avoiding new objects.

While this may increase the danger of contaminating stored produce with rodenticides, it allows far better use to be made of secure bait containers which seldom cause a neophobic reaction.

Mice are also erratic and sporadic feeders, moving rapidly between 20 or more different feeding points each night and only consuming small amounts of food at each.

This strategy is every bit as effective as the rat’s neophobia in ensuring they do not consume significant quantities of any food until they consider it safe.

Success in controlling mice with rodenticides depends more on the ability of the bait to keep the animal feeding than to overcome any initial wariness.

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