Notes from the Green Truck

When rodent pests invade your New Jersey home or business, they spread life-threatening infectious diseases, expose humans and pets to dangerous parasites, contaminate food supplies and foul food preparation areas with their urine and feces, and damage structures with their incessant gnawing. Every year, rodents destroy one-third of the world’s food supply, do millions of [...]

Although mice and rats are active year-round, spring and fall are when rodents cause the most trouble for New Jersey home and business owners. Their narrow skulls and flexible bodies allow rodents to squirm through small cracks and holes to get inside buildings. A mouse can wriggle through a space no bigger than a dime; [...]

Why is it that the person that I know who is most afraid of snakes is the one who encounters them most often?  My poor friend’s wife was doing one of her late night tasks of throwing a load of towels into the washing machine when she happened to glance over at her dryer.  There [...]

My friend was making her normal run to garage sales in various New Jersey neighborhoods last weekend.  She told me of something hilarious that occurred while stopping at one of the homes.
This particular garage sale was a large one.  Many families were participating.  Many people were shopping, even though all of the items had not [...]

Vancouver officials are milling over information to see if new regulations need to be put in place for developers of new buildings.  The debate is whether developers should be required to exterminate for rats prior to demolition or prior building any new structures.  Developers are not balking at the idea, but have acknowledged that they [...]

Anyone who has ever experienced a mouse scampering across their floor or opened up a cupboard only to find the signs (mice feces) that a mouse is in the house can attest that it is an unsettling feeling.  Having cats in the house who are great mousers are a good idea; but even the best [...]

Continuing from Wednesday…
Like any good woman with a snake in her home, my friend ran screaming from the room with her hands above her head.  Panic set in and she told her husband to not leave the snake.  Soon she was on the phone with ChemTec Pest Control who was sympathetic to their plight.  They [...]

Continuing from Monday…
Fast forward to later that afternoon.  The kids had returned home and everyone was preparing for the afternoon activities.  My friend went downstairs to the playroom to retrieve something and there were three kitties sitting at attention staring in one particular location of the room.  She knew the mouse had made its way [...]

This story is comical mostly because it did not happen to me.  My girlfriend in New Jersey has been complaining about the fact that mice had been entering her home.  At first it did not seem too odd as springtime rain usually brought one or two mice inside.  But she soon realized there was a [...]