Our friend has had a lot of success with the (no kill) bucket method. It does need to be a very tall bucket because mice are fabulous jumpers.

https://www.instructables.com/Bucket-Mouse-Trap-kill-or-no-kill/

For the no kill method you can also put a tiny bit of olive oil at the bottom of the bucket so when he falls in his feel become slippery with even less opportunity for him to manage to climb out.

Following this because, like @ksmetamaid, I have a mouse with no interest in food on traps - only crumbs. Have you ever tried baiting a trap with crumbs? I prefer to kill him but in a humane way like a spring trap.

I found out how to unintentionally catch mice. We transferred our bird seed to a trash can, put a lid on it and placed it in the basement away from squirrels. A while later I opened lid and there are 5 mice staring at me, unable to get out as the sides of the can were too slippery. I found a new use for kitchen tongs.

They'd gotten the lid off? Or had they gnawed through?

They jumped onto the lid from a wall, and gnawed through a thin part of the lid. We had done this as squirrels had gnawed through a thick plastic storage container on the porch. Critters!

@Seabornman, tongs also work if you find a small snake in your basement pantry like we did one time when we had an especially active hurricane season!

Wash the traps carefully, so there's no odd smells and place them along a wall. If you can find the place where they're entering the drawers, that would be best. Frustrating I know. Mine climb into my walls, especially when it's cold out, and wake me up with their scratching. No idea how to trap those.

judyrud, sounds familiar.

My cat chased a mouse all night until it had a heart attack. I found it on the floor in the basement with no apparent injuries. Almost threw it across the room mistaken for a toy! Didn't know we had a mouse.

Generally if you know you have one mouse you have more than you know. Find the egress in which the mouse came in and close it. Drier vents are a common egress. Then follow the above advice or call pest control specialist. But without finding the egress breach you will always have an issue wether you catch this one or not.

I've tried everything to catch a smart mouse--traps (all kinds of bait: peanut butter, chocolate, raw bacon), glue traps (yuck I know but I'm desparate), and even the electric zapper. I can't catch him. He's taunting me. This is going on months now. I can't use poison because I have a dog. Here's a question--what about natural poison? If i mix baking soda in peanut butter, I hear it will kill the mouse. But what if my dog eats the dead mouse--can that baking soda in the mouse kill my dog? Or another animal? Thanks.

Annegriet, I’m the original poster and I’ve resorted to using poison. I guess it makes them super thirsty, they leave the way they came, and die outside the house. -Can’t say that I really know that scientifically but at least I’ve been mouse free for a while.

I'm scared to do that with the dog. I used poison before the dog and I agree that it worked like a charm. I'm glad that you solved your problem!