Mice like to come out after dark, so they usually get caught at night. At the time of the great mouse war here in my house I always had a trap set in my bedroom at night...I have snack food in there, and the mice had discovered this and were coming in every night and scuttling around here and there which was driving me crazy. I even had one run across my face in the middle of the night one time.

So for a period of about 3 weeks the same trap would get tripped literally every second or third night...sometimes twice in a single night! I would hear a sudden loud SNAP!...followed by a brief flurry from the doomed mouse. I would get up, turn the light on, walk over and gaze at the sad remains, take them over to the toilet, and flush mister mouse down to a watery grave. Then reset and rebait the trap, wash my hands thoroughly, and try to go back to sleep.

I was glad when the mice finally stopped coming, and I found the hole where they were getting into the house and blocked it off. That one trap caught 16 mice during the campaign. Other traps set elsewhere in the house accounted for about 12 more of them.