Two comments
1: if you do trap and release -too close to your house they WILL return -if you take them too far they have no food stores built up or accessible OR they have no knowledge of safe hiding places and they will either starve or become someone's dinner. So no more humane than trapping and killing anyway
2: We live in an old house and used to count on a few mice starting in October. The year the railway tracks were removed the mice moved in in August. When they sat on the counter watching me wash supper dishes we got out the traps. Set trap, turn out light and go watch TV in the next room - snap! Dispose of body, re-set trap,repeat ... Caught for of the little suckers in 10 minutes! Caught 13 mice then just quit counting! Caught out ny the nose ...still alive rattling around an emptied drawer ... DH took him outside drawer and and let him freeze ... It was early November by then. Finally got ahead of them!
Then there was the year rats moved into the detached garage cause the neighbour didn't have chickens that year!
Then that spring we had a nest of garter snakes in the rock garden ....
Ain't living in the country grand?!
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