Rice's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. A blend of older agricultural-area homes and small-town construction spread across this sparsely populated region. Combined with the area's climate — a humid continental climate with brief, warm summers and long, brutally cold winters, more severe than the Twin Cities the farther north you go — 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.