I keep a couple of mousetraps locked and loaded at all times in my
basement/garage (old ranch house that basically has a drive-in basement). I
rarely catch anything during warm weather, but probably get 3-4 mice/week when
it is cold out. With fall just coming to Long Island, I am catching about 1
per week at the moment.
The traps work well overall and are pretty simple to use: I just toss the dead
mice in the field across the street, re-set the trap and wait for the next
one. The fact that I have never seen any evidence of them in the living
quarters suggest to me that I have been successful at keeping them from
settling in. However, I am shortly going to be leaving town for a couple of
weeks and donbt want to leave the traps set while I am gone, least I return
to a rotting mess. On the other hand, I am not wild about leaving the house
bunprotectedb either.
That leaves two options, at least as far as I know: nothing or poison. I have
been afraid of mouse poison ever since a friend of mine had one die inside the
wall of his house, although that was a long time ago. I understand that the
poison is supposed to send them outside to seek water, but canbt imagine
that is foolproof. Am I worrying too much about a problem a neighbor had
decades ago? Does anyone here have recent positive or negative experience
with poison, or other recommendations for me?
Thanks.
Jim
p.s. My shop is currently in the basement. J
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