I grew up in Hawaii. Hawaii is -tropical-. While this often means blue skies, pleasant breezes and white sand beaches... it also means mosquitos the size of B-17Gs, centipedes, and monstrous (word chosen purposefully) cockroaches.

I once threw a HIKING BOOT at a roach. Hit the sucker, too. It trundled off. We're talking bugs big enough that them crawling on a shopping bag (plastic grocery bag) sounds like mice rustling around.

So, yeah. As far as the mice, I'm clueless. I always lost when we played Mousetrap as kids.