On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:11:38 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.
>
>
Sounds like a Smelly rodent problem if they go off and die inside the
house in some unreachable spot. Call an exterminator or get a
[mouser-type] cat.

Harry