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These work but please use them as a last resort if you have any empathy at all. They can hurt you. I tend to live and let live but after almost 2 thousand dollars work on a new truck that a rat decided was a warm place under the hood to make a home and chew wires I had to declare war on the rodents around our place. It was only self defense. I took three days but my husband and I cleaned out the garage and started parking the newly repaired truck in there. It takes some effort because it's a big truck and a tiny garage but needs must. I knew there was a mouse in there. I had seen her on the security camera I have in there. I started to try to catch her first with the clear plastic humane live traps. I have lived in the country for years and they do almost always work. I check them often, drive out someplace remote, open the end and and shake the mouse out. It's easy and it's safe and it's fun to watch them bound out into the grass so happy after their near-death experience. The mouse in the garage was far too smart for that... no matter what delicious thing I baited them with. She resisted them all. I tried other things. LOTS of other things. I tried gradually more lethal things but no dice. I saw her on the security camera almost nightly. She would have none of it. Finally I resorted to the glue boards. They have always eventually worked although it is heart rending to find the mouse in them, hopelessly mired.. sometimes dead, usually just MOSTLY dead and trying to breathe with the glue blocking their airways. If they aren't too bad off I have gotten them free with vegetable oil and let them go but they always seem damaged and unlikely to survive. Usually, I put them in a grocery bag and kill them with a brick. It upsets me to imagine that some people just throw them away to suffer in what little time they have left in the garbage. I have no dislike of them. They don't mean anyone any harm. They just want someplace warm and something to eat. I'd do the same if I was a mouse and so would you. It looked like this mouse was too smart for this too. Days went by. I checked the glue boards I had put in places I knew a mouse would go. No dice. I was really starting to respect how smart this mouse was. I knew she would want all the things that I baited everything with but she was too careful and brainy to fall for any of it. Then, yesterday I saw her on the security camera running back and fourth under the truck. This was unusual so I went out and found 3 young mice.. just old enough to leave the nest and start exploring, stuck in some of the glue boards. Silly little innocent things looking at me with wide, frightened eyes. They were too mired and damaged to set free. They were also too young. Winter is almost here. I killed them. I considered putting a dead one in the center of a ring of the glue boards I was pretty sure this would work but I decided I could never sink that low so I just replaced the boards with new ones. This morning, I found one more baby in one of the glue traps. Next to it was my nemesis mouse. She had tried to help her last baby and had gotten mired. They were both alive but just barely. Too far gone to try to free. I admit I cried after I dealt with them and threw all the remaining used boards away and replaced them with the plastic humane traps. If I am wrong and there is another baby I will probably catch the silly little thing. And I will make sure it survives one way or another and I will set it free. It is the only thing I can do for her now. I am sure that most people reading this will think I am an idiot but I feel I should do the best I can. You don't have to care as much as I do but at least try the plastic humane traps first and check them every day. They do work and it is good for your karma.