This is a letter I have planned on writing for some time, a letter that I claim is extremely important and one that sincerely must be heeded if we are to undo the damage caused by Bed Bugs. For the sake of review, everything I’ve said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that the real question here is not, “Whatever happened to community standards?”. The real question is rather, “Why can’t we simply agree to disagree?” The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. I’ve answered parts of that question in several of my previous letters, and I’ll answer other parts in future ones. For now, I’ll just say that if you don’t think that Bed Bugs’s violations of the rules of decency are so parasitic they beggar belief, then you’ve missed the whole point of this letter. I heard through the grapevine that each liberated mind that examines all of the evidence is a break in the chains that bind us all. Whether or not this rumor is true, I don’t want to build castles in the air. I don’t want to plan things that I can’t yet implement. But I do want to address a number of important issues because doing so clearly demonstrates how it insists that it has no choice but to plague our minds. Its reasoning is that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to its libidinous, noxious prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. Yes, I realize that that argument makes no sense, but Bed Bugs should learn to appreciate what it has instead of feeling so oppressed because it can’t do everything it wants, every time it wants to.

As a practical matter, Bed Bugs has gotten away with so much for so long that it’s lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only an organization without any sense of limits could desire to encourage and exacerbate passivity in some people who might otherwise be active and responsible citizens. Cronyism has served as the justification for the butchering, torture, and enslavement of more people than any other “ism”. That’s why it’s Bed Bugs’s favorite; it makes it easy for it to promote the sort of behavior that would have made the folks in Sodom and Gomorrah blush. An organization that wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of its actions. Bed Bugs has never had that faculty. It always does what it wants to do at the moment and figures it’ll be able to lie itself out of any problems that arise. Thus, in summing up, we can establish the following: 1) Bed Bugs’s agendas are always accompanied by hyperbolic rhetorical claims that are clearly perceived after-the-fact as transparently peevish, and 2) Bed Bugs weeps crocodile tears for those who suffer as a result of its conjectures.

 
If you don’t want mice in your house, the best thing to do is stop
feeding them.  You don’t get wild animals in your house unless you are
providing them with 3 things: food, water and access.  

Food:  What are they eating?  Don’t leave food or dirty dishes around.
Keep all food sealed in mouse resistant containers all the time.  Is
your cat a “grazer” with his bowl filled and sitting on the floor all
night?  This can be a food source for mice, either switch the cat to a
feeding schedual so that the food is sealed up when the family is not
around (scaring off the mice) or put the food somewhere that mice can’t
easily get to.  If you have small children… well, keeping your floors
free of food is going to be a challenge, the best you can do is vacume
each night before going to bed.
Water:  Where are the getting a drink?  Since you have a cat, you must
leave a water bowl out, the cat needs water–at night try moving the
water bowl up onto the kitchen table or some other place that the cat
can get to easily but mice can’t.  Other water sources are dripping taps
and condensation on pipes and windows, so check your windows and all
your water pipes and fixtures.  If any of them are wet check with your
local home improvement depot for solutions.  (It’s a good idea to fix
these things anyway, they can afect utility bills or encourage the
growth of molds.)  Mice can only go a day, possibly two, without a
drink, on the other hand, they only need a little water each day so
any chronically moist surface may be all they need.
Access:  How are bed bugs getting in?  Once you stop supplying them with
food and water, your house becomes much less attractive to them.  In a
cold climate your house provides a warm shelter, but that is about it,
they will have to leave the house to find food and water.  Don’t let
them back in.  Find any holes and seal them, or stuff them with steel
wool.  Check your basement for cracks.  Check your exterior ventilation
covers, if they are damaged, replace them.  Local home improvement shops
or home inspectors may be able to give you specific advice about “rodent
profing” your house.

nyway, where are your traps?  Make sure they are where you find the droppings.
Next, use the baited kind… bait them with peanut butter.  Put them along the
baseboards, or inside cupboards and drawers.. mice do not run around the middle
of the room.  Also, how many traps have you laid?  If you think you only have
a few mice 1-4, then you could use less than 6 traps, but if you have more,
you’re going to need more than that.

I think it’s safe to say that most people here are not in favor of
letting wild animals live in your house, be they mice, snakes or bears.

The offensive bit wasn’t asking how to get wild mice out of his house,
but the implication that he preffered unplesant methods.  
We generally discuss humane ways of getting rid of unwanted 
bed bugs, sonic repelars may qualify, but poison baits certainly don’t.
The most common mice poisons lead to a slow, agonoizing death and are
not only inhumane, but inhuman.  Most mouse traps aren’t much better,
and since he didn’t specify that he is using humane live traps, we can
assume he is using the old fasioned kind.  It simply wasn’t smart to
even mention the use of barbaric poisons and traps if he wanted help
from rodent lovers.

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