Rodent Control in Overland Park, Kansas

If it's October in Overland Park, somebody on your street just heard scratching in the ceiling. The nights drop into the 40s, the open ground south of 151st goes brown, and house mice go looking for a warm wall. A lot of them find one in a split-level off Metcalf or a newer two-story out by Deanna Rose. Most of the calls we take are about mouse control, and it isn't close.

We keep this simple. The line handles rodents and nothing else: mice, Norway rats, and the voles that chew up lawns along the creeks. You call, a real person asks a few questions, and we connect you with an independent, licensed pest control company that works Overland Park and the towns around it. They come out, look the place over and quote the job. If it turns out to be rats under the shed and not mice in the pantry, same number.

Honestly, most rodent problems around here come back to a handful of gaps. Traps catch the mice already inside, but they don't do a thing about next October. Ask the technician about sealing up the house, and if mice have spent a winter up over the garage, ask about attic cleanup while they're there.

Why Overland Park Houses Get Mice

Start with the houses. Overland Park filled in from the north down. The blocks around Downtown OP, Santa Fe Dr. and the streets between I-35 and 95th went up after World War II and through the 1960s, and the city incorporated in 1960. That part of town is ranches and split-levels with block or poured foundations, wood sill plates and sixty-some years of settling. Mice come in where the gas line enters, under a tired garage door seal, around the old dryer vent. A gap the width of a pencil will do. If you're in the old town, see mice and rats in Downtown Overland Park.

South of I-435 it's a different story. The Blue Valley subdivisions along 135th, 151st and 167th are tighter houses, but they back onto greenbelts, detention ponds and open ground. Field mice and voles live in those edges all summer, and when it turns cold they try the closest warm building. Usually that's a finished basement, a bonus room over the garage or a storage room full of Christmas boxes. South Overland Park and Blue Valley covers those homes, and mice in a finished basement covers where they hide once they're in.

Then there are the creeks. Indian Creek runs right through the middle of town, past Nall Hills Park and Switzer Park and the office buildings at Corporate Woods. Tomahawk Creek winds down from Leawood. If your back fence is on one of those trails, you'll see more activity at the back of the lot, under the deck and around the shed. Our guide on creek lots, bird feeders and wood piles goes through the yard habits that help.

Norway rats are less common than mice in most of OP, but they show up. Look near restaurant dumpsters, along drainage channels and in yards with open compost or a woodpile stacked against the siding. Spilled seed under a bird feeder is a free buffet every night, and that's as true in Leawood and Prairie Village as it is here. We take calls from Olathe, Lenexa and the rest of the county too.

• North OP ranches and split-levels: sill plates, old pipe holes, dryer vents
• South OP two-stories: open ground and greenbelts right out back
• Creek and trail lots: cover and water for mice, rats and voles
• Attached garages: worn door seals and a bag of bird seed on the floor

Why people call us first

Mice, rats and voles. That's it. We don't take calls about ants, termites or lawn spraying. Keeping it narrow means we ask the right questions, like whether you've got runways in the lawn or droppings on the garage shelves.

A person picks up. During business hours you get a human, not a phone tree. Tell us what you're seeing and roughly where you live, and that's most of the call.

Sealing comes up early. Any tech worth calling will talk about garage door seals and shed gaps as much as traps. That's what keeps you from doing this again next fall.

We don't do price talk. No phone quotes and no upsell from us. The company that comes out quotes the work after they've seen it. How it works spells out the rest.

All of our rodent services

• Mouse Control
• Rat Control
• Rodent Exclusion and Sealing
• Attic and Crawl Space Cleanup
• Garage and Shed Rodents
• Commercial Rodent Control
• Vole and Field Mouse Control

Mouse season around here

Late September to Thanksgiving

The first cold snap after a warm September gets them moving. Get the garage door seal fixed before Halloween if you can. The fall mouse guide has a checklist.

December to February: ice and quiet

Mice settle in. Scratching over the bedroom after the furnace kicks on, droppings behind the stove, chewed boxes of decorations in the basement storage room.

March and April: snowmelt

The snow goes and the lawn shows vole runways. Mice that wintered in the walls start moving out to the shed and the garage.

June to August: cookouts and compost

Rats work the compost bins, dumpsters and feeders. Mice nest under the grill cover. Good time to get the outside sealed while the gaps are empty.

Towns we cover

• Downtown Overland Park
• North Overland Park
• South Overland Park and Blue Valley
• Corporate Woods and College Blvd
• Leawood
• Lenexa
• Olathe
• Prairie Village
• Shawnee
• Mission and Merriam