But Stewie is having so much fun!  There are traps that are sticky that trap
the mice but shouldn't hurt your kitties.  I don't know what they're called.
I may be dreaming this up but I believe there are also traps that don't hurt
the mice--sort of like a Have-a-Heart trap for mice.

We had mice in our house also. I did not want to kill them and bought this
trap on amazon.com. It includes two traps and it is wonderful!! The mice go
in and cannot get out. I then released them outside. They are well worth the
money. We caught two the first night with peanut butter on bread (inside the
trap) and two the second night.
http://www.amazon.com/Victor-Tin-Cat-Clear-Pack/dp/B000B75ESK/ref=tag_tdp_dp/102
-5636826-2938504
Gail

these traps are very gentle and I use them around my cat.
http://www.intruderinc.com/mousetrap/mousetrap.html
They can be ordered on line or sold at walgreens. They have a very high
catch rate compared to the traditional spring trap. Peanut butter spread on
the underside of the lid works best. Birdseed lightly sprinked in the trap
also works. Placement is everything when catching a mouse so follow
directions and push it up against a wall. Make sure you find the spot where
they are coming in from otherwise they will reinfest. THe usual entry point
is underneath the door. HAve someone shine a strong light under the door
while you look from the inside. IF you see the light, they can get in

I average 60 catches a year. I sure wish I could find the hole they get in
on. Mr. Bonkers gets about 6.

on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:43:36 GMT, "kitkat via CatKB.com" <u26561@uwe>
wrote:

I don't like to kill living things, but mice living in your home are a
health hazard, so I have no problem with doing what you gotta do.  That
said, glue traps are the cruelest of all possible solutions.  Please
don't use them.  Live trap and release is kind, but if you don't take
them far enough away from your property, they will just come right back.  
Some of the fancy new "no touch" traps don't work worth a darn, trust me
on that and save your money

The absolute most reliable method (beyond live traps) are the old
fashioned snap traps, 79 cents a pair is a typical price around here.  
Buy a bunch of them.  Set them in places where your cat does not have
access, such as inside kitchen cabinets (under the sink and over the
stove are prime entrance points for mice since there are pipes and other
conduits in these locations.  The mice slip through the tiny spaces where
the drywall has been cutout).  Another place would be an attached garage
if you have one, along the wall attached to the house  In each location,
set two traps up against the back wall inside the cabinet right next to
each other (or along the floor next to the wall in your garage), and bait
them with a teeny bit of peanut butter mashed into the small indentation
on the trigger so the mice have to work to get it out.  You want the two
traps next to each other because mice are shifty and can work bait from
traps without triggering them (you'd be shocked), so usually the trap
next to the one they are working on gets them.

To keep your cat safe, get some child locks for your cabinets and use
them.  If the doors have handles, get the cheap ugly ones that slip
through the handles and clamp down.  Lock them TIGHT.  There are many
flavors of child locks for cabinets, even those that don't have handles,
so you might have to spend some time installing them, but they are worth
the effort

After you trap a mouse, throw the trap away and replace the pair with new
ones and fresh bait.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  I have a couple of spots
where I just leave traps out all the time (locked up from the cats).  
Unfortunately I think they smell death once you trap a mouse and you have
to pick new locations so they will take the bait.

In my experience, snap traps are a humane way to kill mince, and safer
than poison which is dangerous to your cats (even if they can't get to
it, they could ingest the mouse and therefore also the poison).  Poisoned
mice sometimes die inside walls, too, and that's a smell you don't want
to have to deal with.

Clearly I had a mouse problem, and my cats were no help at all.  My dog
did kill one, though, and boy was I proud!

They are pests.. kill-away

best thing to do is NOTHING

let the cats kill them and play with them.