I just know that I am rather observant, and I have business in garage LOL. rabbits are housed there at night, plus I go thru garage many times each day. Or maybe mice switched to my neighbor, we are in a duplex, and garage is between us and him.

Oh no, I kept pet rats for years, and don't even kill moths or ants, so I would NEVER suggest to exterminate them! You will have to outsmart them... Good luck with that lol xx

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The only way that is appropriate to me is to catch them live and relocate, BUT, in case of half-grown-up juvenile I am afraid it means to also kill them (by kicking them out of comfort of garage, they are hardly surviving in there) . Am I not right? and how did you mean to outsmart them?

I'd block access to the comfy places, keeping in mind that they can chew through basically everything. In my case they were in the old wine cellar, half underground, so I kicked everyone out and closed the entrance with stones. I doubt you'd kill the juveniles, if they walk and run around I guess they'll be able to survive comfortably. We are talking of resilient clever animals

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of course, if I take everything out of garage leaving empty space surrounded by walls, they probably won't stay but, I don;t have such possibility.
Waste basket is a magical thing - it works like a trap today another one got inside when I happened to go thru garage. Instead of jumping out and running away, it decided to hide under trash that was there. I gave her a comfortable ride with air-conditioning to the wild park. This one looked almost like an adult, or maybe it was an adult.

I find lizards in the trash can in my garage. These things can literally walk up the walls so I'm not sure why they can't get out of the trash can without my help.

Maybe it's slippery? My spiders always end up somewhere that needs rescuing

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you rescue spiders? WOW, Barbara! Right now there is a spider with her sack in the location where I don't want them... what should I do?

Anyway, yesterday another mouse was in the waste basket, but this one definitely was a smart adult (probably the mom) because she didn't wait for me to come and do something, she ran away and this happened 2 times (that I came into garage, saw her in the basket and watched her running). The same evening I set 2 traps with peanut butter where I saw her but the traps were ignored for hours..

I am again concerned that she might have tiny babies somewhere in garage and if I capture her, they will die, but I guess I need to just relocate her and stop worrying. I can't save every tiny creature

She might want to have babies in the trash can. But since you've found her there twice, she may have realized that it's not safe and secure there, and will give up on the idea.

Do you throw any food waste in this trash can? If you do, then another possibility is that she's looking for food there.

Well, I don't rescue spiders, but I don't kill any animal so if I get a spider (happens often because they get in from the garden) I just get a box, put it on the spider and all his belongings, pass a heavy cardboard between the box and the surface, then go to the garden and let him drop on a plant. So everybody is happy

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