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When you are hunting you learn to follow 'tracks' that the animal leaves, hunting a mouse it not too different. I'm not talking about the mouse droppings in your cereal box (though that may help) I'm talking about getting into the animals frame of mind. I bred fancy mice for over two years and one got loose and made it's home in the vacuum in the closet. I found it by a piece of tissue. Say what? I'll explain.

Step 1: estimate
Where do you think the mice are coming from? Where are they living? Where abouts did they get in?

Step 2: search
Look around, mice need food and a place to raise their young. Mice in general like things that are soft to sleep in lint, tissue,(I found shredded tissue covered in droppings on the top of the vacuum) they shred it up and make bedding.

Step 3: trap
Mice are smart, I know it's hard to believe but they have a little more than natural instinct and they are not going to fall for the same trick twice so set a trap the sticky kind, electrical or the old fashioned kind near where you think the mice are. Do this in the daytime mice in general are nocturnal and they tend to slumber throughout the day so sneak up on them when they are unsuspecting.

Step 4: check the trap
It there is no mouse on the trap remove the trap and place it elsewhere they won't likely come back to that same place. Keep doing this but if it doesn't work and the mice have multiplied look into other possibilities.

Hopefully this helps. I was able to find several individual mice this way and they are harder to track down than a whole colony with defenseless babies.

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