We rent an old house and have a few visitors of the furry variety this fall. Oddly enough they never head for the rodent room where I have tons of rats and rat food for them (I keep it in a closed bucket but you would think the smell would attract them to some degree). Anyways we tried those live traps and they were next to useless. The mice just came back or got in and out of the trap without triggering it. Old school snap mouse traps work the best for us and the mice are just disposed of. I wouldn't feed wild mice due to issues with illness (wild rodents can carry some nasty diseases) plus there is no way they can be as nutrious for our snakes because they are hunting constantly for food unlike our chubby well fed, home raised feeder rodents. Wish we still had our old female cat around. She was such a good mouser that she only had to nail a couple of them and the rest just buggered off once they sensed her prowling about the house at night.