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Keeping your home pest free without baits and snap traps isn’t easy—but maybe you have a soft spot for every living creature no matter how small, or just hate the thought of cleaning up dead mice.

Talk to almost anyone in pest control and you’ll immediately detect their begrudging respect for mice. They are “so adaptable,” says Matthew Frye, an educator with the New York State Integrated Pest ...