someone told me to fill 5 gallon buckets with water and spread dry corn on top....mice go for the corn and can’t get out....
Normally in my house, which backs up to a wooded area, I get a bunch of ants in the kitchen in the spring, and generally about a mouse every other year.
This year I had ten mice so far.
Lil’ Kim has killed eight of the ten and left them in the open, knowing that she gets treats and praise for each mouse killed. Two of the ten were captured alive where she had them cornered (most of the mouse murdering seems to be done in the upstairs bathroom and both mouse “survivors” were captured hiding three or four feet above the floor on the shower curtain where she couldn’t reach.
(Lil Kim is my five year old tortie cat. My daughter named her.)
I’ve always had cats, and they have always made short work of any mice we happen to have. It’s just in them to kill mice and there is no other method as efficent in controlling rodent populations.
I cannot carry a filled five gallon bucket which is why this works for me.