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Yep, crickets in one of our Virginian houses. Lots of ants and cockroaches in our Hawaiian one. Hawaii was especially bad because there's no AC/houses are built to be really open to take advantage of the wind/etc. Crickets were slowly exterminated over the course of two months, but I had to deal with the ants and cockroaches the entire five years I lived there and for the four next summers I spent home from college.

I've had a cockroach crawl up my pant leg before, crawl over my face as I was sleeping...

*shudders*

We also have an infestation of mice my senior year of high school. My mom didn't like the risk of snapping her own finger with the snap traps so she started buying sticky ones...

NEVER BUY STICKY TRAPS. They are terrible and cruel and completely inhumane to the animal. She didn't even want to kill them afterwards, just toss them in the rubbish cans to bleed and thirst to death. I was forced to try and make their deaths as quick and painless with the little means I had.

But yeah, buy snap traps. They're worth the risk of snapping your own finger.

I don't think I could ever use a snap trap, because someone in the news (I think it was Jon Carroll) wrote about the time he set one out. It's supposed to get them in the neck and kill them cleanly, but this one hit the middle of the skull, and you can imagine what that does. The mouse didn't die right away, either, struggling and trying to get out even though it clearly didn't have much longer left to live.

:(

I still maintain that they're better than sticky traps. The mouse will get trapped in those and panic, sometimes tearing off whole stretches of skin in their attempt to escape. And then after being trapped for hours in pain, someone still has to take care of it/put it out of its misery.

I'm honestly not sure what's the best method... or if there even is a "best" method.

I've read about nonlethal mouse traps, though only in passing. Quick Googling brings up a metal box with air holes, which they can get into but not out of until you open it and let them out in some distant location. (Just make sure to check it frequently!)

Live traps (proper live traps, the box traps) are pretty good, so long as you remember to check them regularly so the poor mouse doesn't die of thirst.

I got my thumb caught in a rat trap when I was a kid so I'd be paranoid too.

I will admit we used the big sticky traps to kill baby snakes. Normally we would have left them, but they hatched under our house and were small enough to get inside. We called around but nobody would go under there and catch them. Also, they were Eastern Browns. Not cute little pythons. They can be aggressive little shits.

I just looked that up. "[S]econd most venomous terrestrial snake . . . known to cause diarrhea, dizziness, collapse or convulsions, renal failure, paralysis and cardiac arrest . . . notorious for its speed and aggression . . ."

And it's Australian, because of course it is.

They do this thing. They stand up in an 'S' shape and make a bitey face, and then they launch themselves forward at you. Idk if that picture will work but it's scary in person.

http://www.wiresnr.org/images/eastern_brownsnake%204.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhmVcB-gwk

OH HERE. HAVE A VIDEO.

The first time this happened to me I was about 6 and cornered by one in the garage. I scream-cried and my dog came barreling around the side of the house and killed it. Parents were completely oblivious. Have a dog picture, just because.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cattle_Dog#mediaviewer/File:Cattledog_Little_Joe.JPG

I had a blue cattle dog like this, but with a curly tail (part basenji).

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