It's not humane, but the cheapest and most effective mouse trap is to take a 5 gallon plastic bucket and fill it up about 1/3 of the way with water, throw a couple handfuls of sunflower seeds into the water, then smear some peanut butter all around the inside of the bucked, down about 4 - 5 inches. Then take a piece of wood and make a plank from the ground up to the edge of the bucket. The mice will walk up the plank of death, not be able to resist the food inside the bucket, fall into the bucket, and the rest is mouse history. This simple trap can catch lots and lots of mice in a very short time. I do it every fall up North and catch many mice until the water in the bucket freezes.
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