What to do with two trapped mice

In My Humble Opinion
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Nope. I was using the 4-wheeler 6 days a week while clearing land to build my house. I’d start the engine, they’d scatter. I’d pull off the seat and remove the nest. When I got done working I’d shut it down. Repeat for 3 -4 months. The 3-week old car had been driven every single day since we bought it, and my wife drove the car that they nested in the blower 5 days a week to work. The weather in that case had been mild, so the blower it self had not been used in a week or two, but the car had moved.

The only way I’ve been able to keep their numbers down is with repeating bucket traps to drown them in areas where our outside cat can’t get to them, like my sheds. My house is as close to mouse-proof as I could possibly get it, and I have seen no sign of them inside. I’m working on mouse proofing + insulating one of my sheds, so that I can just use the other for stuff mice can’t damage.

In my experience, unless you’re a complete slob, food access is not the issue. They will nest anywhere it is dry, and love to chew on plastic, rubber, or almost anything else - even copper wire. They have eaten gas lines and wiring on lots of my outdoor power equipment in storage, where no food source was present.

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Too late to edit, but here is a thread in which Athena and I describe two types of repeating bucket traps (posts 9 and 25 respectively).

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451484&highlight=mice+bucket

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Of course I was joking. These mice were at my work, not my home. The glue traps were used because that is what the owner of the business I work for wanted me to use. The mice were put out of their misery with a cinder block.

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#1 Don’t use glue traps

#2 If you have a small injured animal in the throughs of death, put it in a plastic bag, use all your Babe Ruth strength, and Wack it with a shovel. Twice.

Sometimes hard to do. But fast and humane.