Advice on killing mice

Just watch poisons if you have pets....even if they cannot get into the poison itself, if the mouse ingests the poison and dies in a place that the dog/cat can get to it, then the pet ingests the poison as well. I usually use trap-type methods instead. Of course, I have one dog that can catch a live mouse as well as any cat! In NJ we had a small kiddie pool in the dog run, and the field mice would be attracted to the water in hot weather. They'd get in there and couldn't get out, and would drown. Lola, my mouser-dog, would "bob for mice" and clean out the pool for me....yuck. But between the drownings and the number of mice that Lola and her daughter Lolita caught, we rarely had a mouse in the house.