We live on the ground floor and get mice once in a while. once we had a rat ! It ate some of my dirty laundry>>> I had mouse/rat droppings in my room.... my dog is hopeless at even alerting us to the rodents. Usually we know from traces of mice droppings. I wish they'd infest my brother's room, but he's s filthy they're prolly afraid. maybe f he has mice, he's start cleaning up.

local rodents like dried seafood. dried cuttlefish/squid works the best coz its really pungent. its a box trap, so afterwards, dad will put it in the pail and fill with water to drown it. My dad learnt that was the easy way. (I told him so but he wouldn't listen to me. The first time he poured hot water. It made so much noise! it was incredibly incredibly cruel. But maybe thats what dad remembered they did in the old days where people killed their own chickens so it was ok. but next time he just drowned them.)

It's sad, coz they're very cute, but we live in a urban area and if we let them go, they'd just come back or go to someone else's house.

an idea is to keep them as a pet? I used to have pet mice as a kid...