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Unique-Public-8594 t1_iu4acn6 wrote

Buy: 10 cheap wooden spring mouse traps, a box of hospital type latex gloves, headlamp type flash light, plenty of sealed food containers, and peanut butter (small jar is probably enough)

Clean: Put all snack food and cereal into sealed containers. Put on head lamp. Deep clean (including getting crumbs out of kitchen cabinets, trash bin area, and off counters, shake crumbs out of toaster, draw under oven (if there is one) and vacuum crumbs from under couch cushions). Look for mouse pee/poop as you clean. Leave sink dry at night. Sometimes just using sealed containers for your cereal and snacks will be enough to get all the mice to leave and go to your neighbor’s house.

Set traps: (careful, it hurts when they snap) using just a tiny bit of peanut butter as the bait. Place them near anyplace you noticed mouse pee/poop.

Removal: put on latex gloves to remove/trash any dead mice (some carry disease). Some people throw out the spring trap each time since they are fairly inexpensive, others keep and reuse the traps.

Repeat: Make it a daily routine to empty and reset traps.

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Antgrannybillie t1_iu621dl wrote

If the wooden traps don't work (we found the mice kept escaping them), try this type. We've had excellent success with these.

Also, don't forget to check the traps regularly. We forgot about one in a hole in our ceiling and came back from vacation to maggots falling from the ceiling.

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