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I have never seen a rat in an apartment nor has anyone I know. For what it's worth working in the ER I have never seen anyone bit by a rat. The people who claim to have been bit by a "rat" when you ask them what they looked like, you discover that it was actually way too small to be a rat and was most likely a mouse. Most of the bites are people who try to pick them up with thier bare hands. Duh.
I actually think mice are worse than rats. How common are they in apartments in say, Forest Hills?
I can probably handle rats in the subway tracks since I can choose to simply not look at them, but mice in the crib? Never again...
I've shared my home with roaches, bedbugs, centipedes, spiders, raccoons and a host of other beast. Mice/rats (not much different imo) are the worst for my psyche.
How many mice you might find in your apartment has a lot more to do with you and your habits then with the neighborhood you live in.
word. Well we live clean as eff. Only reason Ive ever seen a beast in my place was location. Family could never afford much and when we could the folks a few doors down got hit with bedbugs hard. Messed up or whole block.
How many mice you might find in your apartment has a lot more to do with you and your habits then with the neighborhood you live in.
Not necessarily, the same goes for roaches to some extent.
I had mice in my apartment, I rarely saw one but I found droppings under my kitchen sink.
I had a professional exterminator come and he told me that because the building kept the trash in the basement, the mice would live there and make thier way up on the pipes to the 3rd floor where I lived, and even though my apt was clean it wouldn't stop the problem without sealing up EVERY LITTLE HOLE.
The building was also gut renovating an apartment across the hall which I'm sure didn't help either.
Not necessarily, the same goes for roaches to some extent.
I had mice in my apartment, I rarely saw one but I found droppings under my kitchen sink.
I had a professional exterminator come and he told me that because the building kept the trash in the basement, the mice would live there and make thier way up on the pipes to the 3rd floor where I lived, and even though my apt was clean it wouldn't stop the problem without sealing up EVERY LITTLE HOLE.
The building was also gut renovating an apartment across the hall which I'm sure didn't help either.
There is a difference between a visit and an infestation. Anyone can get a visit from mice...but they don't stay unless there is food. YOu really have a lot of control over mice...unlike say bed bugs.
Why the hell would a ll keep the garbage in he basememt? Is this common?
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