we hardly get any mice or rats around here, our main scourge is insects. even those are rare, and the huge crane flies and moths we see fluttering and scuttling about were let in via the back door, which my parents leave open all way while we are all out of the house (so the doggie can go to the bathroom outside-we don't have a doggie door), and for quite a while at night. i have no qualms with killing pest insects.
they do appear once in a while, and we don't have really an organized strategy for defeating them when they show up. glue traps are effective, but when i was a kid i had a hamster that got stuck in one. he survived, but it was awful trying to get the glue off him. i'm a bit sensitive to rodent death for that reason, and i've been keeping them since i was 7. but eh, i have to make a distinction.
i'd prefer an effective quick killing spring, over glue, over ineffective spring trap that leaves it paralyzed and bleeding, yet still alive, if only barely, faintly kicking.
once in a blue moon, we get gophers..
spiders are found almost invariably in the sink and tub, down to the septics they go.
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