Where do mice live?
A. There are three types of mice in North America: common house mouse, White Footed Mouse and Deer Mouse. The house mouse is found throughout the United States and has been a part of human life for over 6000 years. House mice have a noticeable musky smell that lets you know they are around. A city house mouse may life its entire life in buildings, never leaving a human-made structure. Rural or suburban mice live both inside and outside and may even seasonally move from indoors during cold weather to outdoors during warm weather where they take up residence in shrubs, rock walls or under decks. Under favorable conditions, they multiply rapidly. A house mouse can climb, jump and run from place to place with surprising speed and agility. The white-footed mouse is similar to the more-common house mouse and ranges mainly from the northeast United States to the southwest and Mexico. It looks similar to the Deer Mouse and can also carry Hantavirus. The Deer Mouse is a distant relative of the
