Mouse catching adventures

I recently had a major mouse problem. Little swines were getting in every room, behinf the walls, in the cupboards, it was awful. Now i'm a live and let live kind of girl until something starts stealing my cookies then its every hormone raging chocoholic for themsleves. Of course the first thing to try is the nice fluffy humae traps that wont kill them. You have to o this first in order to feel justified when you have to throw them out with the rubbish and get the ones that work a little more viciously, but a lot more effectively. I built several of my own. Laughable attempts. So i spent fifteen quid on some ready made ones. They sucked. At one point the mice were walking up the trap as far as they could without getting caught and just giving up on on the rest  of the bait. Clever. I didnt catch a single mouse.
Next stop is of course poison. This will kill some of them, but get slow working poison. These mice will eat a little bit to test it first. The problem with this method is that you will end up with large amounts of decomposing mouse bodies everywhere you cant reach them. A smell to accompany your dinner parties it is not.
The next step is of course the nastier side of mouse traps. The ones that snap their necks or glue them to the floor and leave them to die of starvation if you dont get home from the pub in time to shovel them to death or put them in the freezer. Horrible, but sometimes necessary. After all, you didnt invite them, they pee everywhere and eat your stuff. (Please dont try and bargain with the mice by leaving out tesco own brand cookies and trying to hide your taset the difference double chocolate chips - they arent fooled and it merely provides them with the means to mock you.) The trouble with the snapper traps is that they work on a couple and then they get wise to it or learn where to step so they ca lick the bait off, but still not set off the trap.
My most successful mouse genocide day was when i caught four in one day, two in the same trap. I honestly believe you could be a vegan tree hugger, but after being outsmarted by them for three weeks you'll be shouting for joy and puttig their heads on little cocktail stick spikes to warn off other. I managed to corner one in between the open bathroom door and the wall. Trouble was, as soon as i tried to close the bathroom door to catch it, it tried to run through the gap and i got its jugular caught. Ah, the site of a twitching mouse with blood spurting from its neck all over my walls. That'll give you nightmares. Then i caught one in a glue trap and put it in the freezer. (There has been much office debating on this, but i am a firm believer that hyperthermia sends you to sleep first and is a painless way to go. I could be wrong.) The last two happened with a snap trap. Two mice were stading carefully in the trap licking off the peanut butter and no doubt snickering to themselves about how clever they are for outsmarting those stupid humans. Until a well aimed throw with the remote control sent them off to mouse heaven.
Once you have gotten rid of the mice, clean everything thoroughly with bleach and put peepermint oil everywhere. They hate the stuff.
Happy mousing!