#1. Don’t put them on the basement floor where your dog can find them…
#2. And after you move them to the sill plate, remember how many you set and where you put them. Dead mice start to make flies in as little as a week.
Don’t ask how I know.
Good advice!
I would like to add #3:
Never use a 9mm to finish them off (in the house).
Don’t ask me how I know either. 
#4 if you have a glue trap put it where the 3 year old will not step in it. Nothing like a kid glued to the floor with both feet.
Never tried BK’s #3 but I agree with #’s 1 and 2 are no good
OMG for rule #4.. 
#5 Never use poisoning inside a home. They crawl into spaces you can’t get to, die, rot and smell for a long time…
#6 if one gets caught in middle of night and is only wounded thrashing and squealing just get up and deal with it. Otherwise it wont stop making noise and you wont get back to sleep…
#7 – If it smells like death at the cabin on one weekend and you don’t find the source of the death smell, it’s going to smell like death X 2 the next weekend you go up.
#8 – If you find an old dried out mouse carcass that doesn’t smell anymore, its not the source of the death smell.
The ^(*&%&#^ SOB crawled away with my trap and carried it in a lawn chair carry bag.
Also pretty scary how close it smells to propane……Thought I had a leak recently but mysteriously went away before I tried to “fix it”.
#9 don’t leave a bag of sun flower seeds in your hunting coat over the summer. Unless you plan on trapping it
#10 Don’t use a .45 either. 
If your cabin is overrun with mice, sometimes it is fun to assign traps to the 4 guys that are there. Let them put them where they will and 10 bones in a kitty. Winner take all, loser vaccums the cabin. Everyone checks their traps before they leave, when they wake up, or when something goes snap.
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#10 Don’t use a .45 either.
…or a 12 ga, with T shot. 
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If your cabin is overrun with mice, sometimes it is fun to assign traps to the 4 guys that are there. Let them put them where they will and 10 bones in a kitty. Winner take all, loser vaccums the cabin. Everyone checks their traps before they leave, when they wake up, or when something goes snap.
Awsome idea!
What in the world no Tannernite?
I got a mouse who runs across my ceiling tiles in the basement right above my computer. Lets call him Ted. OK, I call him Ted. And well, it might be Ted. Ted is the mouse I saw in the garage one day that I named. Or used to live in there, because I found a couple dead in there. They were lured into containers with slippery sides that had the residual smell of bird seed. But I digress.
So I heard once having a cat in your house would keep mice out because they smell the cat. Well, I have 2 cats, so I guess we can put that to rest.
By the way, the Ted I thought lived in the house is actually Tedette or Tedibeth, because I started hearing the squeaking of little mice one day.
So anyway, the cats aren’t keeping them out. However a fortunate placement of the cats water bowl just under a gap between the ceiling tile and window well worked its magic one morning. The babies don’t seem to be as bright.
I might patent it.
Is it….dead? 
…and who the heck would take a picture of a dead mouse and post it on the net.
You’ve worried me Pug.
Who’d believe it without a picture…especially from me. It was a 1 in a million shot. I am glad he landed there, because he’d he scurried off and died, who know if I’d have ever found it. That’s why I took the picture. I felt bad, but dead is dead. It’s not like I shot one with a pistol.
You know me, I am a nature boy. No traps at the house, no glue strips. After many unsuccessful attempts to catch Ted with a live trap, I gave up. I am dreading the day I have to replace tiles and bleach everything.
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