On Dec 21, 8:12*pm, Van Chocstraw
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trader-of-some-jacks wrote:
As seems to be the case most winters, we have mouse droppings starting
to pop up (or is it plop down?) in our basement.

Some judicious mouse trap use always stops the problem. *But I'm
getting old and tired of the "standard" traps - baiting them, making
sure to not set them off myself, emptying the gross dead mice from
them, repeating...

(By "standard" I'm talking about the kind seen in Looney Tunes and
other cartoons - bait with cheese or peanut butter, and a piece of
metal snaps onto the mouse and kills it.)

What's a "better" mouse trap? *By that I mean one that might kill
multiple mice without rebaiting, and that's easy to clean and reuse.

Not so fond of the bait traps that feed them poisoned food, as they
force me to figure out where the dead critters are. *I'd rather
confine my looking for carcass hunting to where the trap(s) are.

Feed them Decon rat poison. Makes them go out and seek water while they
hemorrhage to death.

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Thats a myth. They don't seek water. Instead they get sick, they crawl
off to a quiet, secluded spot. They die, they decompose and stink the
place out for a month or so. I know. I've used it and after mutiple
kills ended up ripping down the ceiling drywall in the rec room. This
year we have 2 cats. We made a pact. I feed them and they keep the
mice out - and it works better than any trap or bait.