‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
MAybe there were a few other things stirring as well. In fact, if you are judging those noises you heard early this morning the squirrels were doing much more than stirring. After a summer of eating your bird food, wrecking wood trim on the edge of the house, and digging holes to bury their cache, the squirrels are becoming quite a nuisance.
And while your daughters often think that these fluffy squirrels are very cute, you know them as the deviants that they are. And after making sure that there are absolutely no other ways to rid your home of these more than stirring pests, you are now in the process of finding squirrel bait poison and using it to eliminate the problem.
Exterminators and the Best Products Can Help You Eliminate Your Home of Your Worst Problems
Knowing how to how to trap a gopher or understanding the best way to catch ground squirrels are just two of the difficult tasks that home owners can face, even if it is the night before Christmas. With the use of a net for gophers, for instance, a property owner may be able to stop the damage that is being done to a yard or a garden. With the carefully supervised use of squirrel bait poison, as another example, property owners can make sure that there are no more strange noises in the attic or in the wood pile in back of the house.
The average lifespan of a gopher is typically one to three years, and during this lifetime gophers make their homes in burrows that consist of many tunnels, some of them reaching 200 to 2,000 square feet. They love to eat roots, herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, grasses, and flowering plants. In fact, research indicates that on a daily basis, gophers consume nearly 60% of their body weight in vegetation every day. If you want to be able to sleep though the night, especially the one before Christmas, it is important to make sure that you get the help that you need to take care of the animals that are stirring around your home.