I’ve tried an awful lot of different things, but the good old Victor style mouse trap is still my choice. I bend the tang a bit to give the trap a hair trigger, then bait it with peanut butter. I put the peanut butter on the bottom of the tang and on the wood directly below the tang. This prevents the critters from licking off all the bait, and forces them to wedge their heads underneath the tang. Then SNAP!
I have three traps in the basement and an LED indicator in the kitchen. The LED is green if all the traps are set, but turns to flashing red if a trap is tripped. That way I don’t have to go downstairs to check the traps, and the bodies don’t stay in the traps long enough to get ripe.
I have the same arrangement in the attic for flying squirrels, except that it’s a rat trap rather than a mouse trap.
I’m not too fond of poisons because you can’t control where the critters die (and rot). Back when I did use poison, Warfarin seemed to work pretty well. It was always good for a chuckle when they would take it upon themselves to tear open a bag of warfarin on a shelf in the garage.
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