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Some times killing may be the best option, short of moving.
When I first moved down here (Georgia) I soon discovered a mouse or two in the rental. It was a nice double wide trailer, as trailers go, and it was all we could afford at the time. I have never been big on hunting, though I love to target shoot, and had a couple of rifles around. The Land Lord would do nothing about the mice and we tried live traps with no luck. One day we noticed no mice! That same week we discovered a nice size copperhead sitting on the kitchen counter. I cleared the house and shot the snake...twice. Then we moved to a mouse free house! Lesson learned. If we ever get any pray type critters around again, be it mice, rabbits or whatever, they are going to be evicted without hesitation, and that includes my yard! I would not have had a snake in my place, and would not of had to put two rifle rounds through my kitchen counter if we had just gassed-poisoned-nuked the mice to start with. Although, moving out of that place was really the best thing.
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