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Oh, yeah, our cats just stare at the mice, fascinated. My old Koogie would share the food bowl with them, chewing contentedly as they nibbled from the other side of the bowl.
I suspect we're just contributing the evolution of smarter, more nimble mice with the traps.
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Earn your keep, furballs. Granted, the mice are in the drawers and cabinets.
I'd poison the bait, if they are eating it, then let them eat something that will kill them.
The only problem with poison is they wander off and die in your walls and then you have dead mouse smell for a while. It does go away, but till it does, yup. Dead mouse smell. Once known, never forgotten. Also, No Sticky Traps!
Erin, you might want to go a size up in spring traps. If they're really healthy cagey mice, a trap with a harder spring and a bigger kill bar may work better. Good luck!
Maybe just one successful trap will do the trick. When I had my mouse problem, I caught several with those humane traps, then finally got Daredevil!Mouse with a lethal one, and his broken body left out overnight seemed to convince any others that may have been around to look for greener pastures.
Oh the mice/squirrels at my brothers are totally foiling the traps they have. I kinda think they aren't actually coming into the kitchen, just disgorging insulation from the walls. Which...uhg.
Devi's a known mousekiller. The rest? I have no idea. They've not been tested.
Drugs are kinda winning against the bug. However, at the cost of a good night's sleep. Going to telecommute at least half the day. Will see.
We had a horrible experience with a spring trap in CA. it scraped off half the mouse's head but left the thing bleeding and running around. After multiple attempts to kill it, Joe finally ran over it with our car tire. The next time around we used a trap that catches them live and I released it in a field away from the house. The kids thought that was fun and thankfully, there wasn't blood everywhere.
A friend of mine recently came home to find her apartment ransacked by squirrels. It was bananas, following the story on Facebook.
When we had mice (despite 2 cats), Tim rigged up a humane trap with an empty paper towel roll, peanut butter, and a trash can. We caught and released 2 mice that way. Kind of a pain, though.
I have always had hunters...so any mouse incursions haven't lasted long. Sometimes the results were pretty gory though. Clio is the most gentle cat with me, but she's ferocious with mice.