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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We bought snap traps in bulk. Set a dozen or so the first evening after dinner. Key is a tiny tiny tiny amount of peanut butter as bait. We set them everywhere we had seen dropping and along the baseboards near dropping areas.   We checked them all before we went to bed and disposed of three mice, and reset more traps in those areas. Lots of mice caught that first night. Disposed and reset the next couple weeks. Adding additional traps in the areas where we were catching them.

We caught 50 ish mice in the first week, and the numbers caught dropped to one a night at most. Than none with no new droppings. We keep two traps set now all the time in the two spots where we caught the most and check them periodically. Every fall as it gets cold we catch one or two again. But we then go on a major offensive of traps again and it is 1 or 2, not 50. [/quote]

You know this is not normal, right? You have dangerous levels of infestation [/quote]

NP. We had this level too. They multiply very, very quickly. We were out of town for a month and came home to mousetopia. They were EVERYWHERE. They'd eaten a whole bag of dog food that had been sealed in the pantry. We did the same as pp, killed maybe 40 mice with traps and then the numbers died off very quickly. We haven't had any in about 2 years. At the time we set out 6 traps a night and all 6 were full every night. Of course we filled holes and replaced baseboards that they chewed through, but the main thing was the traps. I was incredibly disgusted to toss dead mice out. [/quote]

Don't they make noise when running around and you can figure out you have a mouse problem before they multiply?

Or is droppings the only sign?[/quote]

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