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Originally Posted by cstreit
I keep getting them in the house. Using snap traps but I hate cleaning them and they have had a tendency to drag them back behind walls.
Thinking of poisons but worried about dead mouse smell inside my walls. Is this an issue? I have heard that they dehydrate and leave the house in search of water?
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We live in the country. No real mouse infestation but we'd occasionally see one in the garage. We also have a duck camp that stays closed up 2/3 of the year. Mice in a share cropper's house in the middle of a bean field is a never ending war.
I used poison once. It's amazing how bad one mouse can smell, and how far that smell can carry.
Before we had cats I had the best luck with glue boards. The big ones. Little ones they hop right over. 100% glue boards at the duck camp. Once they are stuck you'll hear it and have to deal with it. Channel locks to the skull and drop it in the trash. Relatively mess free.
Haven't seen a live mouse at home since the cats arrived. The poster above is dead on about females. We have a male/female pair of litter mates. The male is alright but the female is a stone cold killer. -J