Have only ever seen one mouse in any of my houses. About 20 yrs ago Mr and I were watching TV when he said, "Look!" a wee mousie had just crawled up the VCR cables to the top of the VCR machine. Sat there a while while we watched it, and it began to salivate badly.

Mr. went and got a pair of heavy leather gloves, captured it by hand easily (so it must have been sick) then proceeded to smash it to death on the side of the dumpster.

Biggest problem with mice etc. is that they do carry disesaes which are very nasty. Kill the cute little things; the planet won't mind.