If You Have Kids, Get Humane Mouse Traps

I live in a 100 year old house in Florida, with a dozen orange trees in the backyard. Now to the unsuspecting person, that sounds lovely, but if you’ve lived near fruit trees, it sounds like a recipe for a rodent problem.
Since the house is so old, there are tons if nooks and crannies bugs and rodents can get into to invade your house and cause tons of health problems. I have young kids and a wife who is deathly afraid of bugs, so I knew that if one of them saw a mouse or rat scurry across the floor, it would be chaos.

So, like anyone would do at first, I set up some old fashioned mouse traps and mouse glue traps around the outside of the house. The first day my son got his finger caught in a trap when playing outside. Not wanting to risk anymore injuries, I decided to stick with the glue traps. Well when my kids we’re out playing again, they discovered the rat caught in the trap, slowly dying, and of course were traumatized. 

That’s when I decided that I would invest in a couple of humane mouse traps and set them up in the house. The kids are safe and happy that they’re dad isn’t a mouse-murderer, and my wife is happy that little fingers are protected from getting hurt in the traps. Read More!

Don't Be Fawlty: Use Catchmaster traps

We all know that Fawlty Towers episode, “Basil the Rat,” where Manuel’s pet rat (which he thinks is a Siberian hamster) is on the loose in the hotel at the same time Mr. Carnegie, a health and safety inspector, is doing his rounds.

The techniques used to try to eradicate the rat created plenty of panic and stress at Fawlty Towers. Basil Fawlty coated a veal cutlet in rat poison and left it as bait on the kitchen floor – and came close to poisoning the health inspector, who ordered veal for lunch, and the hotel's cat. The Major also tried to help by hunting the rat with his shotgun.

This entertaining episode shows that rats are not good for business, and neither is rat poison. Rat poison will certainly stop a rat dead in its tracks, but, being highly toxic to humans and pets, can be risky to use.

To catch rats and mice without hurting them, using a method that does not present a toxic hazard in your home or business, consider sticky mouse traps, which allow you to release the rodents into the wild.

Because no one should have to experience the trials and tribulations of Basil Fawlty, choose Catchmaster traps at the first sign of rats! Read More!

Professional Grade Products from Catchmaster

Sometimes in life, it’s necessary to hand a situation over to a professional. But what if you didn’t have to?—in terms of pest control anyway.  If you have a bad pest problem that regular treatment just won’t eradicate, you should look into the professional products from Catchmaster.

For insects and roaches, there is a great selection of attractant, baits and traps that are sure to wipe out your bug population in no time. If your problem is more rodent related, there is a ton of mouse traps and bait of all sizes. There is even a rodent barn to improve the longevity and effectiveness of glue traps by protecting it from dust and dirt. For the more sensitive rodent exterminator, there is even a humane mouse trap dubbed the Multi-Catch and is a catch and release system. This system is easy to use and safe to use around pets and children.

Its springtime which means that fly will be a buzzing and entering our homes. If you have a fly problem at home or in your business that needs to be eradicated, there is wide-array of tools ranging from fly tape to light glue traps. Read More!

Why Mice are Unhealthy in Your Home

To some people, mice are cute. They are often seen in homes as beloved pets and are romanticized in children’s books, movies, and cartoons as being small and but mighty creatures that we should make friends with, not pests we corner in Catchmaster traps. But despite their tiny, unsuspecting bodies, wild mice can often carry harmful diseases.

Here are some of the illnesses someone with a rodent infestation in their home can contract from mice:

Salmonellosis - bacterial food poisoning, infection with or disease caused by bacteria of the genus Salmonella typically marked by gastroenteritis but often complicated by septicemia, meningitis, endocarditis, and various focal lesions (as in the kidneys) when food is contaminated with infected rodent feces.

Rickettsialpox - a disease characterized by fever, chills, headache, backache, and a spotty rash, caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite of a mite of the genus Allodermanyssus living on rodents such as the house mouse.

Leptospirosis - Any of a group of infectious diseases that are caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira, are characterized by jaundice and fever, and are transmitted to humans by contact with the urine of infected animals.

If those diseases aren’t enough to make you want to invest in humane mouse traps, then you may want to do some research on European history circa 1349… Read More!