Found a mouse nest! GRRR!

When i bought my trailer it had mice in them after cleaning the mess when i stored it for winter i put 3 butter containers full of lemon pinesole one in the kitchen sink one in the shower and one in the rear bedroom and when i went in after un covering it no mice bugs well dead bugs like spiders and flys dead on the ground. the lemon pinesole kept the mice away cuz the mice was in my garage instead so it does keep them out and itll make your camper smell like lemon :-)

The key to sticky traps is to put one bit of dog food in the center of the trap, but you have to check the trap so the mouse can be either dispatched or released (your choice) without suffering.

My old trailer was a mouse hotel so I feel your pain. I took care to seal every open space and hole I could find with my new one. It's my first season with it so I hope not to repeat!

I know a lot of folks have luck with peanut butter but I never did... they just seem to pick it off without tripping the trap.
The best bait I have found is chocolate chips. Put a few in the microwave to get them soft then take a knife and get a glob onto the trigger... making sure not to "glue" the trigger to any other parts of the trap. Once the chocolate chip cools it is difficult to get off the trigger. When the mouse starts working on it - nibbling, pulling, etc. - SNAPPO!! Better luck with this method than anything I've ever tried.

Good luck. I haven't had any with my new trailer but had them in my old trailer. Never kept any food in there but I guess it was just a nice place for them to sleep and raise a family. Opening up the drawers with the dish towels and finding a mouse hotel always was a treat.

By the way, I agree about not using the glue traps. Look, I hate mice as much as the next guy but I never checked my trailer every day. When I used glue traps and would go in and find a mouse that was near death, having struggled for who knows how long, it really bothered me. I'm all for killing them, but want it to be over reasonably quickly and painlessly. Call me a bleeding heart, but the glue traps just cross the line for me.

Peanut butter and a snap trap works on these north west mice and my Black Lab spots then like a cat. I had one eat through my wiring under the dash of one of my logging trucks.

Nasty little critters!

X2 everything but the glue traps; snap traps do the job. Haven't had much luck with anything scented.

but mice are more clever than we give them credit for

My observation of mice is that very generation gets smarter than last.

We're back to spring traps but with latest generation (Grandparents or parents didn't tell them about those old fashion things)
We super glue a 1/2 peanut to the trap metal bait thing. Sometimes even have to sand peanut to get nice flat gluing surface.

I'm afraid for the next couple generations from now.

Yuck. we tried dryer sheets, herbal packets, and various other things, but the best bet is 1) find & seal up all the spots where they can get in, and 2) have sticky traps set around the camper - and check it during the winter. Tough when it's in storage, I'm sure, but mice are more clever than we give them credit for, I think.
Good luck!