What is your definition of the term pest control?

Mice are considered pests and they then try to control them therefore pest control is the way to keep mice out of where you do not want them.

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In my experience, if you live in an area where there are mice, there is a certain amount of work required periodically to keep them under control. Some years we have only a few outside, other years there are lots. We've only seen one mouse in the house, and that was over twenty years ago. I use a combination of strategies to keep the population under control.

Tin Cats, a trapping box with doors that mice can enter but not leave, are placed at several spots along the base of the house. You only need to bait these boxes once. I use a piece of apple core, or a smear of peanut butter. Mice enter and die, and their friends keep coming in. Mice are cannibals, so the later arriving mice eliminate the remains of the earlier ones. Every few days or weeks, depending on the pest pressure, I empty the remains, which are usually just some skulls.

For remote outbuildings, I find Just One Bite baits to be amazingly effective. Some years I have no activity on any of the packets I place, other years I need to replace the packets pretty often. This bait is less than a dollar a package on Amazon, and lasts until consumed. Note that it is not for use around the house, as the active ingredient is not so labeled.

Once or twice a year, I put out a bunch of snap mouse traps at suspect locations both as a control measure, and as a survey of where I might have a problem. I only leave them out for a few days, and then use an appropriate other control strategy.

Don't get discouraged by mice; it takes some work, but control is possible.

Renais

Cheap wooden snap traps work well for me. Just put a big dab of peanut butter on the thingey that looks like a a small rectangle. We used some once in a kitchen where we worked. We just got the traps set, turned out the lights and walked a few steps down the hallway. Snap, Snap went the traps. No more mice.

I'm afraid of snapping a cats foot...or ....? I use live traps.

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I think my goal is to be as "hands off" as possible with this. Mice are just one of my "things" that give me irrational heebie jeebies. I so admire the battle you guys put up on your own, though! I wish I was that brave!

Sometimes, Rose, it becomes necessary to control mice. An over population of mice in a house can cause structural damage, and they harbor parasites and diseases.

There are professionals who will trap them for you, just be sure that they have a program that suits your lifestyle. Interview as many pest control companies as you need to in order to find someone you are comfortable with.

Yeah, my experience of living in AU has proved that mice are the same pests as any others

When I was living there, there were no mice, no pests in general, which seemed to be kinda suspicious

It's weird, tbh, what part of AU have u lived in?

Moreover, sometimes they can be really annoying. Having lived in Adelaide, I've experienced many various pests coming to my house and feeling themselves at home, without any invitation of course, lol. However, it was all hilarious, I mean, few mice are okay, to the point when once I woke up in the middle of the night and two beautiful mice were sitting on my pillow just next to my face. I suppose, they were trying to inform me about some important mice issues, yet I didn't appreciate this discussion, truth be told, lmao. It was the turning point I realized we need to get rid of this "hilarious" issue. The next morning we ordered emergency pest control services. Afternoon, there were no mice, no worries, and no pillow talks.