No, we don’t like those! Getting rid of one curious field mouse involved baiting and placing these……overkill you say? The cupboard door came off and the whole mysterious process of fixing the well pump was suspended while we ensured that the little creature was disposed of. It is disconcerting when these things go off…particularly the big ones. You could do a bit of damage with the rat traps.
After all that he ran away by himself. “I’m off” he said and slipped away into the cool early summer grass. Good! I don’t know what I would have done if we had caught him