Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
I recently had to clear two mouse traps. While I'm not fond of killing the little creatures, you can't have them in the house. As I cleared the traps, I thought "there's no free lunch". This made me think of my father, decades ago, he told me (many, many times) "nothing in life is free". A good lesson.
You can feed and water the mice in a specifc location and they will be happy. Then you can use a have-a-heart trap and then move them miles away in the spring. By then you will have hundreds - and they can feed the owls, cats snakes and hawks.