[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

Sure you can make a better mousetrap than those pissant one-at-a-time traps. Adirondackers do it all the time.

Take a five-gallon spackle bucket and stick something like a welding rod through it, near the top, from side to side. In the middle of the rod, put a tin can, also pierced from side to side so the welding rod goes through it. Make the holes at a point on the can--you may have to try a couple of times--so that with a dollop of peanut butter atop the can it is balanced just right so that when a mouse jumps onto it to eat the peanut butter, it inverts.

Fill the bucket to a depth of about four inches with water, and put some kind of ramp leading up to the lip of the bicket--a stick or narrow board.

Come back the next morning and you'll find a bucket filled with drowned mice. Cruel, but not as cruel as having to diassemble the entire heater-blower system of our RAV4 after storing it for the summer...

Stephan