You daughter is kinder than I am. At our cabin when we leave I line the floors with sticky traps and have Decon poison stations. It's no fun to come back and need to clean out all the drawers, cupboards, bedding and so on because mice have moved in and their dropping are everywhere. I keep all food either in refrigerator or in sealed plastic tubs and yet they survive just fine. They will even eat plastic and rubber and have no need for water. They can live in a vehicle and chew the wiring or plastic arm rests in a car, this has happened to us. You daughter is a kind person but I have no mercy these cute little animals I consider vermin. Mice and pack rats can carry disease.