We live in the country in a old farm house, falls comes around and the mice come in. Dogs are good at taking care of that problem and we set traps so we don't have them for very long.
Now bats are another story, in the last 15 yrs 3 bats have come in and my house does not survive very well. Nor do the bats. My dogs go apesh*t trying to get the flying rat that is flying around up at the ceiling. My dogs have launched themselves up bookcases to then leap and snag it out of mid air to using the upright piano as the launch pad.
lol I was visiting a friend with Petie, she owns a lovely century horse farm and has a bunch of dogs including some jrt/terrier mixes. Petie and I enter the house and he immediately started checking out along her cupboards and a sideboard. I knew she had critters that had moved in. I called Petie to me, he had been very interested in the sideboard and he came over and sat on my lap while we had a coffee. Next thing a big ol rat goes racing along the wall trying to get to the otherside of the room to the cupboards. Petie launched off my legs and got it before it got more than 8ft. My friend was upset, and not impressed that her dogs had never showed any interest. She didn't want to touch it, told her no problem
We went to get our boots/coats and Petie came with me. Told him to go get it, he raced back to the kitchen, picked it up and out we went. Went to the barn, I got a fork and dug a hole in the muck pile and told Petie to drop it in, which he did. Friend turns to me and says, 'I want your dog'. ........yeah not on your life