Having garden sheds can be great.
They are a wonderful place to store your tools, animal food, and heavy equipment that you can't find room for in your home.
They also keep your valuables safe from theft and burglary.
If you think your items are safe though, you may be in for a big surprise.
Human intruders aren't the only problems you have to worry about with your garden shed.
You need to be concerned about non-human intruders as well.
Pests and Vermin in Your Shed While you may have your shed protected against regular burglars, your biggest problem could be bugs and animals.
These intruders are sneaky and will enter your shed without a care in the world.
Instead of taking your things and leaving though, they will set up shop and make themselves nice and cosy in their new home.
This can not only be aggravating, but it can also cost you a lot of money.
These pests may damage your shed and the valuable inside.
So how can you prevent this sort of thing from happening? Here are some steps you can take to safeguard your garden sheds from pests.

• Place any pet food you have stored in your shed in plastic containers.
  This kind of food can attract pests like rats, mice, raccoons, and stray animals in the neighbourhood.
  If you don't want them sneaking into your shed and hiding, it is best to keep this type of food in a container that eliminates the smell of the food and can't be chewed through.
  
• Use insecticides on and around your shed.
  This will keep your shed free from a variety of bugs.
  If the shed is made of wood, insecticides can prevent damage from termites, carpenter bees, and carpenter ants.
  
• Birds and bats are great for the environment.
  They eat bugs and get rid of smaller pests.
  However, if they set up shop in your shed, they can be extremely annoying.
  With bats, there is always the chance of rabies as well, so it is important to stay away from them.
  Discourage birds and bats from using your shed as their new home by keeping the doors closed all the time.
  Also, place colourful items in the yard around the shed and items that create movement to scare off birds and discourage them from creating nests in and around your shed.
  
• Chipmunks are cute little creature that love to burrow.
  While they eat smaller creatures like salamanders and insects, they can also make your beautiful shed look bad by burrowing holes underneath it.
  Discourage these creatures from living in or under your shed by surrounding your shed with gravel.
  If they still manage to sneak past you, you may have to use live trapping so they can be relocated to a different area.
  
• Groundhogs love to dig up and eat fresh vegetables in gardens and are often seen around garden sheds.
  Just like chipmunks, they will dug holes under the shed and make themselves at home.
  You can control the groundhog population by placing your garden shed far away from your garden and surrounding it with gravel.
  If the groundhogs do dig a hole under the shed, you can try flushing them out and placing a large rock over the hole's entrance.
  

Humans are not the only intruders you need to worry about in your garden sheds.
Take the time to protect against pests like insects and animals.