Resolved: That it takes longer for a long, lean mouse to get through a hole than it does a short, fat mouse.
Probably depends if cat is chasing him...........and You gotta do what you must to survive.
Also depends on what you are using for "de bate."
(Sorry...........couldn't let that one go by without a witty retort.)
Larryj
I fiigure that the short fat mouse gets stuck in the hole and the long lean mouse has to find another hole so they both get through at the same time.
When I lived in Mulvane, south of McConnell AFB, many years ago, I had a mouse invasion one year. I trapped 24 mice in a very short time before calling an exterminator.
He found a colony living under the air conditioning slab and they were somehow getting into the house. He told me that a mouse could maneuver itself through a quarter inch size hole. I have always doubted that but maybe it is true.
One of the 24 mice I caught was running in the basement. I was on my way to spend two weeks in Indiana on reserve duty. I took after it with a broom but he was to fast. I then dropped a bucket over it and then could not figure out how to lift the bucket and capture him. So, I just left the bucket where it was and left for those two weeks.
After I returned, I went to the basement. Right away I could tell from the odor that was a bad mistake to leave a bucket over a live mouse. Even had to throw the bucket away.
After the exterminators visit, though, I never had another problem.