Mice this year & what do you use?

[JL Girl]

After a brief bout with mice this year in my Mom's cellar in her condo, and after a few conversations around town, I got to thinking. Is it me or does there seem to be a higher coincidence of mice getting in this year? The common comment I heard was it was so darn cold at times that more mice than usual were getting into houses.

Then, my second thought....Any preference on what you use to catch mice? Recommendations by our maintenance guys at JL and our local Heath's hardware store was "use the good old fashioned mouse trap". We had previously tried those little mice houses with sticky floors but nobody "checked in" so followed the advice and they were right! JL Girl: 3 Mice: 0. The trick the Heath's guy recommended was to bait the trap with peanut butter, not only on top of the triggering mechanism but underneath as well - since mice have figured out how to lick off the peanut butter off the top but not the bottom and that's what gets them. Actually, it's been kind of fun arming those darn things although some have a hair trigger - you go to place them on the floor and they snap and jump. I read that mice steer their way along walls by their whiskers - interesting! Heath's guy said you can reuse the traps but for my money (a few cents), you can throw the trap away with the caught mouse (eeeuuuww!) and get a new one. As soon as I'm done disposing of the little things, I wash my hands about 100 times! Well, that's my little story about "getting mouse-y out of the house-y!"