So, what are you trying to say, eph?
 
Do they work or not?!
 
;-p

OK, this is what we used to use in the steel mill. It is brutal and dangerous but very effective on anything up to a couple pounds in weight.
 
You need 2 steel plates, one large and one much smaller.
A piece of cardboard bigger than the large plate.
4 small non-conductive objects. 
An ac line cord with a plug on one end and alligator clips attached to the black and white wires.
Peanut butter.
 
Place the cardboard in a suitable location and set the large plate on it. Place the 4 non-conductive items on the large plate and arrange them so that they will support the 4 corners of the small plate. Place the small plate in the middle of the large plate, resting on the 4 non-conductive items. Put a healthy dab of PB in the middle of the small plate. Finally, attach one of the alligator clips to the large plate and the other to the small plate. Plug in the power cord.
 
That's it. This will kill most vermin, but will also kill pets, children or you, so I hope you don't actually build it. I have seen this take down mice and large rats. Usually you can tell you got something because when the rodent shorts the 2 plates it will usually blow a fuse or trip a breaker. 

XX found mouse droppings in the pantry. She cleaned up all loose food bits and particles and put everything in plastic containers. The droppings have slowly dwindled and now no sign of them. Hope this helps. I too couldn't kill them. 

How about a couple of those 'sentry machine guns' like they had in Aliens? 

jamesg1213
How about a couple of those 'sentry machine guns' like they had in Aliens? 

Too much collateral damage.

Beepster
So, what are you trying to say, eph?
 
Do they work or not?!
 
;-p

Seems like he actually likes teh pu.............


 
 
 
 
I'll get me coat.

bayoubill
XX found mouse droppings in the pantry. She cleaned up all loose food bits and particles and put everything in plastic containers. The droppings have slowly dwindled and now no sign of them. Hope this helps. I too couldn't kill them. 

Now THIS is the MOST effective way to get rid of vermin (and things like roaches).
 
No food... they move on. Unfortunately it only really works in ideal situations such as contained environments. The only time I wasn't able to get rid of pests this way was when my dwellings were attached to other buildings that were infested. However even then if I saw them they were just passing through and the droppings/damage was minimal. I was just in the middle of their food highway.

Beepster
I was just in the middle of their food highway.

ROTFLMAO

And yeah... cats are pretty good too.
 
 
 

How about putting some peanut butter about 6" up inside of a shop vac hose. Rig it so the vac comes on if it senses movement in the hose. That might be a humane way to get it in the vac and let it go outside.
 
I'll never forget when I found one in my shed out back as it jumped out and ran across the grass with a baby in tow. It looked at me like oh **** right before I dropped a cinder block on it. It made me feel reeeeealy bad. I had to do it. The thing was eating everything in my shed. 
 
I recently had a very large spider in my studio. The largest one I've ever seen. The vac got rid of it.