[2001 ZTS]

I have an older house (1936) every year about this time when it gets cold I get a mouse or two during the course of the winter. In a house this age you just cannot seal each and every crack a mouse will get in and I accept that. My question is how to make the visit as short as possible.

For the record I am not concerned about moral/humanity/animal right issues. I caught a mouse in a traditional trap once that didn't die right away so I held it in my hand under water in a bucket till it did. I figure that was easier to clean up than a microwave and I wasn't hungry at the time.

Do those plug in ultrasonic things work?

Is their a better bait for a spring trap than peanut butter on a piece of cracker? (we all know cheese sucks as bait and people watch too much cartoons)

I have had semi-sucess with glue/paper traps.