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Please try to avoid using poison to control rodents.

I am a remodeling contractor who specializes on older homes. I have seen every type of infestation under the sun.

Poison does not result in a humane death. The poisoned mice do seek water. Sometimes they exit the building to do it, but then become a poison threat to other wildlife. You don’t want to kill off a nest of bald eagles because you are inconvenienced.

And sometimes those mice are drawn to tiny bits of condensation on pipes and die en masse inside a wall. Picture above was from a wall cavity behind a vanity. Clients remodeled the whole bathroom because the smell was so bad.

The bucket method is very effective, but not very humane either. The mice struggle to get out until they fatigue and drown or their hearts explode. Still preferable to poison.

Have-a-hearts are also not as humane as people think. Releasing wild animals into territory that is not their own is basically a death sentence, usually by others of the same species because of territorialism.

Spring type traps look awful but are one of the best ways of dispatching unwanted critters.
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