Yeah, only invited rodents are good; volunteer rodents must be dealt with as the trespassers they are.
In addition to trapping, you need to find where the mice can get in--into the building as well as into your room--and block that up. Because mice can make themselves so tiny (their bodies can fit anywhere their skulls can), this can be very difficult. (If they can get into the building, they could maybe even be coming under your door.) We've always gotten an Orkin person--but they're not all good at it, so keep going until you get one who is.
Also, if you have no pets or babies, they can put poison out. Maybe you could buy it in a store. I'm not happy about poisoning animals, but see above about volunteer rodents; it's the next option if traps don't work, and not a true horror like glue traps.
In North Carolina, we had a lot of mice, which did go into humane traps. Here we've never gotten one in a humane trap, but we only see one & then it goes away. Our theory is that they don't like the presence of rats, which do eat mice in the wild.
Oh--I've also heard of cat urine keeping mice away. But then, you know, your house is full of cat urine! And if the mice have toxoplasmosis, it attracts them!
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In addition to trapping, you need to find where the mice can get in--into the building as well as into your room--and block that up. Because mice can make themselves so tiny (their bodies can fit anywhere their skulls can), this can be very difficult. (If they can get into the building, they could maybe even be coming under your door.) We've always gotten an Orkin person--but they're not all good at it, so keep going until you get one who is.
Also, if you have no pets or babies, they can put poison out. Maybe you could buy it in a store. I'm not happy about poisoning animals, but see above about volunteer rodents; it's the next option if traps don't work, and not a true horror like glue traps.
In North Carolina, we had a lot of mice, which did go into humane traps. Here we've never gotten one in a humane trap, but we only see one & then it goes away. Our theory is that they don't like the presence of rats, which do eat mice in the wild.
Oh--I've also heard of cat urine keeping mice away. But then, you know, your house is full of cat urine! And if the mice have toxoplasmosis, it attracts them!