Be careful with mice poison. They eat it and die. Sometimes where you don’t want them. Crevices you can’t see, house walls ceilings and..openings to your R230. Not exactly the smell you want permeating your carpets and leather Deterance and outside traps have worked for me. They make sound emitters that deter mice and other creatures. Check amazon. I plug a couple in near the car and never had an issue

 

Good lord just kill the mice, who cares how they die, they’re disease ridden vermin. Don’t be candy boys. Reminds me of the ridiculing I underwent a few years back during our home owners association ship annual clean up. I mentioned that I ha dad shot and killed several coyotes and my Dobermans killed a few more. I received a very loud drubbing from one of our liberal neighbors stating how sick and inhuman I was. A few weeks later her prized labradoodle was eaten alive by four coyotes in front of her. Moral of the story? Don’t be candy.

 

* who cares how they die *

Kind folks do.
btw, funny how ‘liberal’, ‘democrat’, ‘socialist’ and their opposites are often slammed down to one dimensional qualifications. You’re either in or out. The real world is so much more complex and varied than that.

 

I don’t want this topic to devolve, but generally, people with a moral compass care about how animals die. It’s understandable if they’re a nuisance, but there’s always an opportunity to not prolong suffering. In the end, only kindness matters.

 

To address the concern of the smell of dead mice, I can tell you it eventually goes away. Their carcasses are small and dry out quickly. We lived in a subdivision that was next door to a dairy farm. Every fall when they'd clear it, the mice would come running for the warm, safe haven of our homes. I had traps and poison and would catch several each week, always in the garage or the attic above it. One day, we came home from work and could detect the tell-tale aroma of dead mouse. I checked all my traps and found nothing. The smell got worse for a while, but after about two weeks, the day before my wife had marked on the calendar to just burn the place down, it subsided. Several years later, I discovered why it smelled so bad that time. We remodeled the kitchen and had to remove some sheet rock for a plumbing refit. We found about 30 dead mice carcasses stuffed into a small channel between studs. Apparently, this was the mouse superhighway where they access the garage attic, and a traffic jam backed them all up where they were unable to exit. There was absolutely no smell to the dead ones. The poison I used was they type that makes them very thirsty, so the leave to seek water (assuming you make sure they can;t find it in the house). When they drink, they die.

Now, I am as humane as the next person, but I am not going to jeopardize an investment in my property over the lives of mice. I prefer they do not suffer, but I don't hesitate to kill them if they want to invade my space. We now live in a home that backs up to a nature preserve. We have deer, coyotes, snakes, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, and there have even been a few bear sightings int he past. As long as they don't bother me or infest or damage my property, I don't bother them. We do have to be very careful driving in the area as the deer can be very quick to jump out into the road.

 

* next door to a dairy farm. Every fall when they'd clear it *
Is that dairy farm closing down for winter, annually?

 

No, they'd mow the grass. I guess what the cows did not eat during the summer season, they needed to cut back to keep it from becoming too thick. But that's just a guess - I don't know much about farming!

 

I have a neighbor that was touchy-feely (humane) as some on this site and I kept warning him about mice and squirrels that he didn’t want to kill and had tons of catch and release traps for both. A couple of seasons went by and finally after replacing 32 trusses and the entire roof of his 22K sq ft showplace garage due to the cute little squirrels chewing the wood trusses. He also had to have the entire interior (door panels, seats and carpet) in a 1937 540K special roadster replaced to the tune of over $60K and wiring replaced under the dash of two 300SL’s at $15K each due to the mice damage. He now kills them the way I suggested and no damage for over three years.

 

Are you really that incapable of understanding the difference between a glue trap and a snap trap? Glue trap = prolonged suffering (inhumane), then death. Snap trap = instant death (humane). What is wrong with making it quick? Are you a sadist? Geez.

 

I’d like to add that you’re a double sadist if you just WRITE about those 300SL’s and 540K, without SHARING PICTURES of them.