jmcquown wrote:

>
> I had a mouse problem when they started digging up the field across the
> street to build some houses. True, your regular mouse trap is a tad messy.
> And after hearing the thing snap shut and emptying it about 6 times in an
> hour I decided perhaps poison bait would be better. Put it well behind the
> refrigerator so as not to allow the pets access. They ate it, gluttons that
> they are, then wandered off to wherever they go when you can't find them and
> were not seen or heard from again.

Living in the country, we get mouse problems every winter when the mice decide
to find warmer quarters. I never found traps to be much use. We catch a few but
that does not get rid of the problem. Rodent bait seems to be much more
effective.

I keep meaning to try something that I heard on the radio. Leave pieces of
Juicy Fruit Gum for them. Mice and rats will not eat mint, and Juicy Fruit has
no mint in it. The rodents will go for it because it is sweet. They cannot
digest it and it clocks up their intestines and they die. It sounds like a
cheap solution to a rodent problem.