Have you ever done something really stupid?

[Weeble]

First victim, a mouse. Raticator worked great, see blinking red light. turn off unit, dump corpse into doubled plastic grocery bag, rebait and turn back on.

"come here little varmint...."

[Kotik]

You seem to have a lot of wildlife in your house, Sir

[Linda]

Live traps for mice don't seem to work too well for me. I catch a couple and release away from the house but then either these mice return or other mice learn how to avoid the live traps. It becomes a duel of wits in the placement and bait selection for the traps. I hate using the killing traps but end up having to do so. When I see a mouse climbing up the leg of my parrot's cage I spring into action to protect my beloved bird. But I doubt that "Hercule Parrot", who I have had for 23 years, cares much one way or the other about sharing food with a mouse.

[Weeble]

This electrocution things works well. Unfortunately the count is still one. The unit has been relocated to another hopefully target rich environment in the basement. Actually if all the critters were gone i'd be happy..

[Alelou]

Live traps for mice don't seem to work too well for me. I catch a couple and release away from the house but then either these mice return or other mice learn how to avoid the live traps. It becomes a duel of wits in the placement and bait selection for the traps. I hate using the killing traps but end up having to do so. When I see a mouse climbing up the leg of my parrot's cage I spring into action to protect my beloved bird. But I doubt that "Hercule Parrot", who I have had for 23 years, cares much one way or the other about sharing food with a mouse.

Some of the organic growers I read suggest an upside down wooden box with killing traps in them (sorry, we're not very patient with rodents) put along the path of the most destructive voles and mice and such, and using no bait at all. Apparently upside down boxes alone are enough to get them in (this may be a frigid Northeastern thing). I haven't tried it myself yet, and I know others use bait, but the idea is that they learn to associate certain bait with certain death... It's on my list of things to do, after the day I opened the compost lid and came face to face with a very healthy looking mouse.