 Welcome everybody. Welcome to the live stream. How you doing? How you doing? I'm Jim and this is pest control for the people Okay, pest control for the people. I'm a licensed pest control technician in the state of New York Obviously not across the whole country across the whole world. I'm not an expert on everything But I do I've got about six seven years experience and I'm gonna run through carousel items It's that time of year. Okay, when it gets cold at night, we all know what happens, you know Mice expand their range and they start getting into things they shouldn't and they end up being In in your pantry in your basement in your cupboards in your in your in your silverware drawer or you know, wherever it is You know, you don't know where they're coming from or where they're going, but all of a sudden you have them, right? So We're gonna go over a couple things about mice. We're gonna go over a couple of things you can do for mice Again, it's not rocket science. Okay. It's not rocket science at all. Okay. It's it's it's something that has to be done on a regular basis recurring basis because what happens is people forget to do it and They they end up back in the boat where they were before where they're infested again. So, you know mice Chew they chew through everything right they can chew and get there would get into anything They're also can get flat and they can get as small as and get into holes the size of a dime All right, so there and they can climb walls. I matter of fact I can show you a picture of them climbing walls Hold on a second. If you're gonna freak out if I show you this picture Here we go if I do this And pause it so you can see it and then if I come over here, you know, it's sometimes you got to Bear with me because it's a what I'm a one-man show. All right. So there there's the mouse He's on a brick wall running straight up the brick wall. Okay. Now if a mouse can do that What what defense do you have against a mouse? Okay, they can climb right up your walls now, right? and Babies are having babies in eight weeks. They're having babies in eight weeks by the time by the time they're eight weeks old They're having babies. They can have a hundred babies a year. All right, and Their teeth never stop growing so they always have to know around things So they're always chilling They're always trying to find their way through and they poop and they pee over everything And that's how they follow each other around through their poop and their pee that's called a pheromone trail And they follow each other around and so even though you're snap trapping and glue trapping the ones that are in your house They've left a pheromone trail So the ones on the outside of your house Smell that trail and follow it right the same way in and find their way in matter of fact They'll go to the same glue trap spot every time because the pheromone trail is bringing them right there And you think you're catching mice, but really you're just harvesting mice. They're just keep coming in So we're gonna work on getting control of that situation for you today We're gonna get control of that situation. You can do it yourself. It's not rocket science. Um, I provide about 20 services a day Five six days a week and this stuff works what I'm gonna tell you works is it's a forever thing It's something you have to keep up on Like I said, your house is always under pressure from mice Okay, every eight weeks the babies having babies and around your house the population of mice grows Constantly, right? So what we're gonna do is we're gonna get control of that population We're gonna get control what's going on around the outside of your house once we do that There'll be no mice left to come inside. So how are we gonna do that? The first item I got in the carousel today is to protect the RTU ready to use RTU Mouse bait station. Okay. It's a little bit hard plastic. Okay, it's hard plastic and It's made to fit in the corners and it's small enough that a mouse can fit in it But nothing else and it's really hard plastic a dog won't be able to chew into this or whatever And you put a little block of bait in there like you see in the picture, right? And you put this in your basement and you're on your sill plate on your kitchen sink Wherever you're seeing droppings in your attic and they're gonna go there They're gonna eat that bait and they're gonna die, right? And I'm gonna go over certain baits that we can use and how the baits work and what they do and some of the store-bought bait that you get the contract I mean the Tomcat and that kind of stuff is like a one-time kill so they eat it and they're dying in your walls and then all of a sudden you get a smell and It's not a good thing, right? It's not a good thing But these things these are the RTU is protect the RTU mouse bait stations that you're gonna put on the inside of your house And they're gonna control the infestation. What's going on the active infestation inside your house Okay, but that's not all that's not enough because like I said the pheromone trail the outside mice are gonna find That pheromone trail and follow it right in to the same place every time So what you would be doing is just harvesting mice, but we're gonna work on that in a second So the next item I got in the carousel over here is the bait that I'm gonna tell you to use And that's it's by Bell laboratories Bell laboratories big company contract or weather blocks, okay now this Reason that this is good. Okay is It's an anticoagulant there's a there's an antidote for it So obviously it's a poison so if a dog or a kid or God forbid something happened where somebody got into it Vitamin K is the antidote to this bait. So and dog food dried dog food has vitamin K in it So if your dog's eating dried dog food, he's not gonna it's not gonna affect them And by the same token if the mice are eating your dog food, they're not gonna die So make sure you're taking your dog food up keeping it in two proof containers because the mice if the mice are eating dog food Dried dog food the base not this bait's not gonna kill them Okay, so it's a vitamin K deficiency causes them to bleed to death. Basically what happens is they feel ill Right and when they feel ill the natural instinct is to search for water So they're gonna go outside and search for water where their natural water sources are and they're gonna die outside What was I just gonna say about the bait? This is a good bait. We use this bait because it's got the antidote to it and Also secondary poisoning is like next to nothing Okay, as far as like if the mice are eating it and a bird of prey an owl or something eats the mouse You don't have to worry about secondary poisonings. All right This is this is a real friendly bait to use. All right And like I said vitamin K shot would fix you up if you've got forbid ate it Okay, um, you of course, you're not gonna eat it But the next item I have in the carousel is the outside stations now These are the protect the landscaping stations. They look like plastic rocks. I don't have one here I have it out in my truck, but they they're about this big and they look like plastic rocks you can see it in the picture there and As a matter of fact, I do have a video of me using it right here. Let me see of me putting them together So they come in a box and you got to put them together but Share my screen. All right, so they come in a big box and You got to put the rods in them. All right, and What happens is you put these on the four sides of your house, okay one on each side of your house and Your anchor them into the ground. I'm going to show you the anchors in a few minutes And they start establishing these as food sources on the outside of your house Once they start putting the pheromone trails to these babies, right? They won't be coming in your house anymore they'll be going here and Instead of going to the ones in your house, they'll be going to the ones outside the house as long as you keep those filled with the bait You can do that monthly. Okay. I come out on a monthly basis. I'm gonna fill that up Right, so you just keep coming out on a monthly basis now There's four rods in each one you put four pieces of bait in each one and that usually lasts the month for sure Because mice and nibblers they're not gonna eat the whole block of bait They're only gonna nibble on it and one nibble is enough to kill them They get there's a lethal dose in one nibble, but it takes three to five days for this particular bait The the Bell laboratories contract blocks takes three to five days for them to die so they don't realize what's killing them They don't become bait shy or bait resistant. Okay, so you can keep using this bait with with confidence. All right, um Very cool. I'm gonna show you another picture of it. I think That then that's how the bait sits in the in the rock station All right, now if I share my screen again if I look for another and just so you know that they work I'm gonna show you a picture of Of a friend inside one Like I have I have like five or six pitches of mice inside you can see him He's right here All right He's in there You can see them nibbling on the bait that the corners are all gone on the bait the bait was square now It's round they've been nibbling on it right and you see they brought nesting materials inside there and they were nesting up and so they establish it as a food source and they start going there and Of course, they die after they eat it But the ones on the outside find the Fairmont trails and go right to the bait stations right very very good program and of course Once it gets control of what's going on around the outside of your house You're never going to have an issue inside your house really cool. But then once you have no activity inside Okay, when you're confident, you know, there's no more droppings you vacuum up the droppings inside and there's no more left or You know, you're not seeing anymore hearing it anymore You're going to want to do a seal out and that's you're going to use the copper mesh Okay, copper mesh people used to use steel wool Steel wool will rust and and it'll leave it'll leave rust stains on the house sometimes So now we're using copper mesh. This stuff is pretty cool. I have some right here Right and I have a little bit of it here and it's this is easy to tear You would think copper mesh You just rip it you rip it up and you boil it up into sizes And you twist it to whatever size you need and you stuff it in whatever holes you have And i'm going to show you a video of me doing a little bit of an inspection around somebody's house Uh, where is that video? Here it is I'm a one-man show and it takes like three steps for me to share anything So but here is the uh, this is the corner of your house This is like the aluminum siding on both sides. This is the corner piece of the aluminum siding. I'm up on a ladder so um They run right up the corner here All the way up from the ground to get into your attic and if you see there's the soffit If you notice they've chewed hole through the vinyl They've chewed the whole thing away and they're going in out of the attic They're running right down from the bottom of the foundation straight up into the attic Okay, right from the corner there, right and they get right up under this So you're going to stuff the copper mesh in there, right? You're going to stuff the cop right there is how they're getting in they're running right up the side of the house Now you also check all along The foundation if they can get in you got to stuff it or use clapped copper mesh or or foam I got foam coming up in the in the carousel as well We'll move over to the foam Oh, what happened? She had the screen again All right, we're gonna go back because you missed that part And then the corner again, it's loose. They can get right on watch. I'm gonna slip my hand right up there So a mouse can get up there. No problem, right? And again the corner vinyl the corner piece is nothing in there You're gonna stuff that with copper mesh they can run right up the siding of the house Now wherever your utility is running your air conditioner Your your gas line your electric lines look at this hole on the side of this person's house Where the mice can just get in right I mean you get stuff that would copper mesh or fill it up with the foam or do something to seal that up You don't want and there's a rock station outside someone's house What it looks like sitting so, you know, it doesn't look like a like a bait station Like you see around restaurants where people would know what it is It looks like a regular landscaping station that people would use for irrigation or whatever, you know, really good System get control of what's going on around the outside of your house. All right Now if you have a really serious issue All right, you would want to use some of these snap traps inside at the beginning Just to get a hold of what's going on Okay, you want to get a hold of what's going on on the inside of the house So you would snap trap them, but you you don't this to me is a little bit of a dirty business I wouldn't you know, you got it You got to empty out the dead mice and everything else with the bathing system They're going out on their own. They're dying out out of sight out of mind You just put the bait there. They're eating it They feel ill they go outside and die outside and you never have to worry about it Okay, you never have to worry about dead mice in a glue trap chewing their legs off and all those nasty things that happen Right, so I mean some people want to see them dead and they want to use the snap traps by all means do so But just keep in mind the other thing too is the mice are going back and forth from these bait stations And they're bringing bait back to You know the elderly and to the babies in the nest So if you snap trap it and kill it then the babies are eventually going to get older and come out Where you would had the opportunity to kill them earlier where you wouldn't even have seen them But now because you snap trap them, you know, the babies are going to come out looking for food and whatnot. All right, so Um It's it's a science. It's not rocket science Okay, and it's something that anybody can do But the key here the key and the absolute key is Vigilance. Okay, the bait stations have to keep filled at all times. All right Now I highlighted the anchors. These are the anchors that go on the rock stations on the outside You anchor them into the ground so that you know Raccoons and skunks and bears can't get into them flip them over dogs or neighbors kids or whatever You know, you got to be careful So these things are called duckbill anchors and you can you anchor them You drive them into the ground and they they'll hold the rock station in the ground So it can't be taken away stolen or whatever or vandalized. Okay. You don't want these things to get vandalized Well, we're gonna cut it short