Your home is one of the single largest investments you will ever make in your life. Just like all other investments you need to be protected. When it comes to protecting your investment from insects and other destructive pest, Shoop's guarantees a safe, effective, and professional job each time. Through years of education, training, modern technology and years of experience, Shoop's will be able to provide your home with the best protection possible.

Our Services Include But Are Not Limited To:
Complete Pest Control
Commercial & Residential
Monthly & Quarterly Services
Inside/Outside Treatments
Attic & Basement Dusting
Yard & Tree Spraying
Rodent Control

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Shoop's is a leader in the Pest Control industry throughout North Texas.
In order to become one of the best, Shoop's uses an approach known as Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

What is Integrated Pest Management?
Shoop's pest management services stress Integrated Pest Management or IPM. IPM integrates preventive and corrective measures to reduce pests to a mutually acceptable level. The measures employed by the modern pest management professional include inspection, sanitation, identification, exclusion (mechanical and chemical), monitoring, and when necessary, utilization of pesticides.

When pesticides are utilized in the conduction of IPM, our pest management professionals utilize products that are most effective for the target pest. Further, the least amount of pesticide at the lowest application rate possible is used to achieve the desired results.

What should you do if you think there is a problem with pests in your home?
The answer is simple, call Shoop's. We will work hard towards identifying the problem and offering you a reliable solution.

Furthermore, we use the least amount of pesticide at the appropriate application rate to achieve the desired result. By utilizing the IPM method, both Shoop's and you, the customers, are able to enjoy a life free of unwanted pests while safeguarding the environment around us for future generatioins.

• Norway Rats thrive particularly in areas where garbage is not properly stored. Although Norway rats generally prefer to eat fresh meat, fish, and grain, they can survive quite well on an ounce per day of garbage or decayed food along with an ounce of water. Frequently they range 100-150 feet from harborages in search of food or water. Norway rats are burrowers and often dig in rubbish and under buildings or concrete slabs. Burrowing can cause damage by undermining the foundations of buildings, eroding banks of levees, disfiguring landscape plantings, and blocking sewer lines. This rat is reddish-brown and heavy-set with a blunt muzzle. Its tail is about as long as the combined head and body. Adults weigh 3/4 to 1 pound. Their droppings are 3/4 inches long and capsule-shaped. Norway rats live about 1 year and reach sexual maturity in 3-5 months. They have 8-12 young per litter and up to 7 litters per year.
• Roof Rats thrive in attics, roof spaces, palm trees and ornamental shrubbery. They are climbers and prefer to nest off the ground. Roof rats are destructive to citrus groves, since they live in citrus trees and gnaw on the fruit. They can be quite destructive in attics, gnawing on electrical wires and rafters. Roof rats generally prefer vegetables, fruits and grain, and consume 1/2 to 1 ounce per day of food from various sources. Because they must have water to survive, roof rats also consume an ounce per day and will range 100-150 feet from harborages in search of this and food. Color ranges from black to grizzled gray to tan with a light belly. The tail is longer than the combined head and body. Adults weight from 1/2 to 3/4 pound. Their droppings are up to 1/2 inch long and spindle-shaped. Roof rats live about 1 year and reach sexual maturity in 3-5 months. They have 6-8 young per litter and up to 6 litters per year.
• House Mice normally live outdoors in fields, occasionally migrating into structures. In houses, they live behind walls and in cabinets and furniture. They prefer to feed on grains but usually nibble at a wide variety of foods. House mice require only 1/10 ounce of food and 1/20 ounce of water daily, but can survive on food alone if it has high moisture. Frequently house mice range 10-30 feet from harborages. House mice are brown to gray in color with the tail as long as the body. Adults weigh about 1/2 ounce. Their droppings are 1/8 inch long and rod-shaped. House mice live about 1 year and reach sexual maturity in 6 weeks. They have 5-6 young per litter and up to 8 litters per year.
  
• Rat Behavior:
  The movement of rats and mice is usually related to food, water or harborage. Knowing where they are likely to go is important to managing them. Rats use any method to get to food, water or harborage. Their excellent sense of balance enables them to run on pipes, narrow ledges and utility wires. Rats, especially roof rats, will climb anything their claws will hold on to, including wires, pipes and rough walls. Because rats are excellent swimmers, they often live in sewers and occasionally enter homes through toilets. Rats like to use regular paths or runways along walls or behind debris. To get food in the open, they will run behind things to get as close to the food as possible. They are afraid of strange objects or strange food and may avoid both.

Norway and roof rats are both aggressive species. The Norways are usually more aggressive, driving roofs from the territory. Both species are seldom found in the same building.

Rats and mice frequently gnaw on their surroundings. Their teeth grow 4-1/2 to 5-1/2 inches per year and only gnawing keeps them short and sharp.

Rats and mice are active mostly at night. Rats show greatest activity the first half of the night, if food is abundant. Mice usually are active at night both right after dark and between midnight and dawn. Both rats and mice will be active during daytime hours when food is scarce, when there is an overpopulation of rats, or when a poison has been used and the population is sick.

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The Ketch-All Mouse Trap measures 9 1/4" x 7" x 5 1/2".