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you might have a stray.. but the ugly truth is usually, there are more. You need to find how its getting in your house. We have had nine since Jan. We caught the first eight by the end of March, found where they were nesting, cleared areas that were suspect to attracting them. One appeared in early June, making it eight weeks between finding any, and none since which has been over a month, this one may have been a stray. I wonder if they can find their way in, from the scent of the others that were here earlier in the year. We've been looking for ways they got in here, and have yet to find it.. I have to say though, I've cleared up so much around the outside of my house and the attic and the basement, that probably wouldn't have been gone through, for an even longer time. (I tried to find a small spec of peace through all of this.)
We caught the mice w/ peanut butter in a humane trap.. they go in and the door shuts behind them.. they get all excited so you do hear it banging around on the floor for a few minutes, then they just sit in there and wait...
We let them go, in a far away distant lake/park area. I used to have two mice as pets as a child, white (salt) and black (pepper).. they were so cute and lived quite a while, playing on the habitrails, so I didn't feel right, killing these mice, although these were walking around my home..
I was uneasy for months, walking around my house at night... I wore shoes at all times.. yuch...
btw.. make noise when you are going to enter a room if you want it to scatter.. I did that.. but the last one (of the eight) we caught in March, literally jumped on my head while I was sitting on the couch watching tv, around 11 pm. I nearly died. We had ten traps in that room that night... of course we got him THAT night. lol
mice suck, when you don't buy them and put them in habitrails.
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