Alcalde's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. A mix of traditional adobe homes, historic land-grant village construction, and newer mountain-style builds, most with real winter insulation. Combined with the area's climate — a four-season alpine-adjacent climate with real winter snowpack and a brief, pleasant summer — rodents seeking shelter from weather extremes make a beeline for any accessible gap.
Exclusion is the core of effective rodent control: finding and sealing every gap a mouse or rat could use to get inside, since traps alone just remove the current population without stopping the next one. We pair exterior sealing with interior trapping or bait stations, then follow up to confirm the problem is resolved.