Pest infestation is a serious threat to the value of one’s home and garden. Rodents and pests often become a nuisance, slowly spiraling out of control, having the potential to affect the health and wellbeing of a family. Any responsible householder makes it his first home maintenance priority to eradicate pests and rodents at the very onset of an infestation.
However, in the desperation of ridding one’s house of vermin, homeowners often lose sight of what’s at stake when pest-treating a home and garden in which their beloved pets move about.
Whether you are hiring a technician to treat your home for pests and bugs or following DIY instructions of using pest control sprays, take care to shelter them away from hazard with this comprehensive guide:
To What Extent are Pets Vulnerable to an Ongoing Pest Control Treatment?
It depends on what kind of pet you are having at home. While mammals like dogs and cats require less preparation before starting a pest control session, your feathery and fishy friends would need more attention-getting ready before the treatment.
Keep Your Pets Away for the Session
Most of the sensible agencies administering home pest eradication like Excel Pest Services use formulated treatments that are effective against menacing critters while gentle on mammalian species.
However, this doesn’t mean your four-legged dear ones are safe to roam around in rooms sprayed with toxic killing fluid. It will be best to take away your pets to another part of the house for a while after the spray has been spread.
Follow Up Spray Sessions with a Wash
It is also important for your technicians to clearly understand the corners of the target zone where your pets have access. Tucked away nooks like behind baseboards, niches in the wall or beneath the countertop could be accumulating toxin from the spray gas if not washed clean a while after. It might be purely accidental for your furry friend to travel to those corners sniffing for a rolling ball to get hit with toxic fumes. To stay safe, do follow spray sessions with a quick wash after an interval as confirmed by your trusted exterminator.
Zip Covers for Birds and Fishes
For birds, fish, and reptilian pets, extra care is needed to ensure no overspray or air-borne droplets get into their cages. Even if the room being sprayed is far out of reach of your feathery or water pets, there is a chance that air-borne elements might get into their system causing malfunction. It’s best to zip up a tight cover around cages or aquariums before calling extremists to action.
Give Preference to Biological Controls
Also, it’s important to remember that pest control measures do not necessarily entail chemical control in all cases. Especially for the garden, many exterminators use biological control pesticides containing beneficial insects. Biological pesticides are surely a safer choice for your gardens if you are having pets around.
How to Effectively Instruct Your Exterminator about Pet Safety?
- Help them identify the areas of the house where your mammalian pets move about
- Ask for biological control insects which can be beneficial for gardening as well as safe for your pets.
- Ask your exterminator to use nozzle spray bottles which effectively spray right within the target area without spreading out risking inhalation by your pets.
Nobody is fond of hazardous and icky pest control sessions, but it’s a necessary step that you have to take when your house is infested in order to maintain hygiene.
