Archive for September 2012
Mouse pest control in Perth
Mouse pest control in Perth has been keeping us busy this week because mice are moving into houses for the autumn and winter. Mice don’t like cold, wet weather because they get hypothermia (dangerously low body temperature) easily. This is because mice have a large skin area compared to their small body volume. When this…
Read MoreRabbit control in Perth
We use ferrets for our rabbit control work around Perth as well as other methods such as dog, gun, nets, traps, poison gas & rabbit-proof fencing. Here are some of the ferrets that won’t be out working just yet though. The six little ferrets, ‘kits’, in the basket are a late litter, just under 9…
Read MoreRat control in gardens in Perth
Rats in Perth were running riot in gardens in broad daylight this week – look at the mother rat sitting up on the garden bench! The whole family was out; mum, dad and youngsters, and very brazen too. Rats prefer to come out at night because they’re nocturnal by habit. But if there’s food to…
Read MoreBird control in Perth
We found this unconcerned bird nesting in Perth on a roof this week; it’s a collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto. A customer had been having problems with pigeons nesting in their chimneys and had asked us to do a bird control survey of the problem. When we got up onto the roof we found this collared…
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