Last year (or maybe the year before) over 40 mice in the house and I got a chap to come and fix the holes in the house and additionally do some pointing and tidying up at the same time. Up until perhaps a week ago it seemed to have done the trick and no mice in my traps so much so that I moved the traps for a few days - I keep them active from around October to March. I was pleased as there didn't appear to be any around.
Last week though I noticed the tell-tale signs of a few mouse droppings, set the traps and had two on two mornings. Then we though we saw one in the living room so I set a trap and that went off within half an hour and this morning I was greeted by two and on resetting them a further one so it's looking as if we have a nest of them somewhere. I dislike having to trap them and kill them but all the humane traps I've used do not seem humane at all and so I've gone back to the tried and tested method. I'm not happy about it but there you are, needs must and having been ill through injecting a mouse dropping (I can't even tell you how awful that was I had to have an ambulance and crew out to me) I'm convinced that a swift dispatch is better in their terms and indeed mine.
I cannot tell you how many times with the humane versions I found the mice dead. If they weren't you needed to take them a number of miles away and release them into an environment they were unfamiliar with. In one case a local cat got one of the released mice. I was then told that moving a wild animal or relocating it was illegal! You can't win can you?
So just another "thing to do" and an unwelcome return of a nuisance I thought I'd solved but, as I often say, we live in the country, when it's cold or food is available readily this is going to happen.
Hopefully it won't be up to the numbers of a year or two ago that was just mental and you'd get a short time with none and the next day you'd have about 4 or 5.
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