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We had mice in my old house. Wooden floors with a lot of holes, cupboards with holes at the back of them and so forth. I lived with two vegetarians who were very keen on the idea of humane traps and humane methods generally. They tried the mint stuff everywhere, did sod all (but did smell nice). They tried wire wool, didn't even slow them down. They put a few humane traps down, went out for the weekend and upon their return found that they'd condemned a mouse to a long, slow, horrifying death. I discovered a couple of mice still alive in humane traps and also managed to catch one in a soup container thing after chasing it into the sink.
The ones I humanely caught I took out into the street, around a bit of a circuitous route then let them go near the cemetery up the road.
In the end I got bored of buggering about and just put out a few proper classic traps with peanut butter and this seemed to get the last of them. Was mouse free for a few months, then moved out and when I nipped round to pick up the post the new tenants told me they had mice again.