Pillager's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. Older farmhouses and small-town homes, nearly all with full basements built to handle the region's extreme winter cold. Combined with the area's climate — a climate with some of the coldest winter temperatures in the lower 48, especially in the northern part of the state — 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.