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Mice can navigate back home from upwards of two miles. You’re going to want to drop it off further than a block away or else you might be seeing it again the next day.
I used to have to use the long tube no-kill traps in England, and I found that the mice were perfectly capable of leaping back and forth over the pressure plate to get whatever goodies were in the bait cache. If you are also using a pressure plate operated trap, my advice is to get a bunch of pennies, smear them with peanut butter, and set enough of them on the pressure plate that it’s on a hair trigger. If the plate depresses when you pick the trap up gently, that’s a pretty good sign that you’re going to catch a mouse.
They can’t resist the peanut butter, and because it’s smeared all over the coins on the pressure plate, they have to get on the plate to eat it and get trapped by the hair trigger.
Kill traps are better and actually make cleanup easier, in my opinion, but the no kill traps work fine. Good luck!
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