: :My family has always had success with a home-made live trap consisting of a :kitchen chair, an old towel, a five-gallon plastic bucket, a 12-inch ruler, :and some peanut butter. Tie the towel to the back of the chair to provide a :ladder for the mouse. Put the bucket on the floor by the chair. Smear the :peanut butter on the end of the ruler, and balance it on the chair and the :bucket to make a bridge, such that when the mouse walks out to the end of :the ruler to eat the peanut butter, the ruler falls in the bucket. Note that :the ruler has to be shorter than the bucket is tall, or the mouse will just :climb out. Place in whatever room the mouse hangs out in, before you go to :bed at night. Within 2-3 days, I bet you have the mouse. Carry bucket at :least a block away before releasing the mouse, or he will beat you home. You :did block up the usual outside entry points already, right?
That's really a hoot, and it sounds like a sure winner.