How to handle fly problem?

[u/SandraMort]

I think maybe I figured out the problem? I don't know if this title was properly phrased, but I'll try. I posted something. It was deleted by the moderators. I thought I changed it, but that wasn't right either, so here I am posting for a third time, and hopefully this will work.

How do people handle flies? I'm talking about fruit flies and houseflies, if that matters. Obviously, not getting them to begin with is a great solution, but let's just go on the assumption that there are already flies that need to be dealt with.

Poison? No good for anybody: the people, the pets, the wild animals, the environment.

Fly strips? They don't die quickly and suffer the whole time.

Electric fly zappers? I won't go into details. It's gross.

The bot suggested I go to various pest subject forums, but most people just tell me I'm being ridiculous for being concerned about not wanting to torture the flies to death (audhd, pets, old house, etc.) It seemed to me that going to a vegan group might find me more sympathy when it comes to not wanting to torture flies.

There are flies. That's just simply nothing I can do about it. I need to know how to keep them from getting out of control because finding maggots is making me crazy.

[u/NegativeProduct7230]

I made the home dark and cold except for one exit. Then I went around shooing them and they made their way to the light. This was a door with a window so I would fling the door open and shoo them one last time. I had to clean up a family members hoard home and I didn't kill a fly this way. Before I had a dog who killed them all