I always figured if you used poison the mouse would crawl off and die in some inaccessible area and stink up the place.

Also poison might kill something you don't want to.....

like grandkids.

Tom W

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That is what stopped me from using poison when we had a couple in our house the other month. I tried those humane traps, but the mice never went for them. I put in a couple of old-fashioned mousetraps, baited them with peanut butter, and killed a mouse each night until they were gone. I kept the traps out for a week after I got the last one, just to make sure there weren't any stragglers.

They will find their way into your house if there is the smallest entry point. There are always more than you can see. And they will breed. They will live in your walls and inside your floors. Kill them while you can and be done with it. The old-fashioned traps bring instant death, so it isn't as inhumane as poison or glue-traps or drowning.

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Jonathan

2011 Mazda2
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1994 C280 (retired)

I'm here to tell you, this is so very very true. I can also tell you it takes about 2 weeks for a dead mouse in the wall to stink itself out. Kind of funny watching the dog stare at the wall for hours though.

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2008 Subaru Outback
2009 Subaru Forester

Inexplicably, our cats like to bring their imported prey into one of the ladies' rooms. They kind of put them in a corner and lay in the doorway, ocassionally harassing them or chasing them around.

Initially we thought it was rather unpleasant, every now and then you'd hear a squeal from an unsuspecting user. But after thinking about it, we fiigured it was better if they left the chipmunks and squirrels there rather than between some pallets somewhere. I've caught a whiff of plenty dead mice over the years, I don't want to know what a larger rodent carcass smells like!

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