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I've had good success with the Mice Cube live traps--little plastic boxes with one-way swinging doors. Except for one really clever, acrobatic mouse who could get back out of them. I thought I had an infestation of such mice two winters ago as I caught one almost every day and had to rush to secure them before they got back out of the trap. But they looked so much alike...

I got the idea of dripping some blue food dye into the trap next time I caught one, which stained him pretty well all over. Next night, I caught--yup, a blue mouse. I took him farther away from the house and released him on the other side of a stream. Blue Mouse still came back. Caught him, but he got out of the trap twice before I finally got him into a cage he couldn't get out of. Then I drove him to a park about seven miles away and released him there, and he hasn't found his way back. Yet.