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Old 02-03-2011, 01:34 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
Jon Danniken[_2_] Jon Danniken[_2_] is offline
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Default Plague of Field Mice

Lil Abner wrote:
I told my wife to set a few traps under the couters because they had
gotten into a box of macaroni.
She insisted on using glue traps and didn't bait them
This evening I killed a little mouse near the cat's bowl.
Looked outside a little bit ago and saw three apparently going for the
dog's bowl.
They ran under the mower and under the dog's house when I turned the
light on.
These are about two inches long minus the tail. there are probably a
bunch of them and their parents and grandparents.
We've never had a problem before but do now.
What's the best way to get rid of them?


Snap traps are the quickest and most humane way of dispatching indoor mice,
you just sometimes have to adjust the sensitivity of them if the mice are
particularly smart.

Don't use glue traps or poison. Glue traps are horribly cruel, and poison
gets ingested by whatever critter eats the mouse (or the mouse dies in your
house and you get to smell dead mouse for a few weeks).

Jon