How to trap a mouse

Ok, I just saw 2 mice run across my upstairs hallway. How should i get them without scrabbling their brains with a heavy book? (Dont want blood and guts all over my carpet).

Also worth mentioning thats its 2.30am and i dont have any mousetraps.

Preferably non-lethal ideas, but i can live with trying lethal suggestions too.

Set a trap of cartoonish proportions. Involving thread, cardboard box, and food.

Best bet is to wait until morning, or set out bread with peanut butter on it, then kill it quickly the best way you see fit.

" Set a trap of cartoonish proportions. Involving thread, cardboard box, and food. "

Cheese with peanut butter on the top. Put it under something that can be cut off like a table or something. Close the edges off when its eating. Get rid of rat.
We had rats but we had mousetraps. Peanut butter usually works.

" Cheese with peanut butter on the top. Put it under something that can be cut off like a table or something. Close the edges off when its eating. Get rid of rat.We had rats but we had mousetraps. Peanut butter usually works. "

" Set a trap of cartoonish proportions. Involving thread, cardboard box, and food. "

Mouse traps from your local hardware or grocery store with peanut butter as bait, put near hallway, wait till morning, dont ask me what you do with them once you trap them though

Obtain both a massive triangular block of cheese and an equally ridiculously oversized hammer

Dress yourself up as a giant mouse, and try and infiltrate their ranks, speak to their leader find out what they want and then find a way to meet their demands.

you must be one with the mouse before you cast it away - his holyness the dali lama

Burn your house down, it's the only way to be sure.

If anyone has a cat next door, steal it for a couple of days.

I'm really diggin' all the suggestions in this thread so far. My vote goes for burning your house down.

Lots of zany action, a crazy contraption, the fun is catchin, mouse trap!

I did a quick mock up for you. Perhaps something like this.

I do hope this helps.

Like this:

We caught a mouse in our house by getting a big trashcan and putting food on a ruler, well he went for the food in fell in.  So we threw him down the street.  He came back so we got a electric mouse trap after 2 days of unsuccessful trapping.  He went in the trap, and I awoke to a Buzzing sound, and the trap was just constantly frying the mouse and it smelled like The Green Mile.

I agree. If you can, try and get rid of it without killing it needlessly.

Do you have a diver and a bath tub handy? I hear that's crucial in mouse trapping.

If you can corner them in a room with no escape, simply get a few large boxes or something and start making the mouse infested area smaller, eventually you will have a small area with no furniture in it, just 2 mice running around with nowhere to hide.

the last time i used a humane trap the trap fell on the mouse and killed it.

a tall bucket with a ramp up to the top and food inside.  they will get in to get the food and be unable to climb out.

Glue Traps if you dont want to kill it. Then simply put cooking oil or baby oil on the glue to loosen it up and free it outside or whatever.

It's impossible. Haven't you seen Tom & Jerry? Kids these days...

Go back in time. When the father mouse(lets call him george) is about to get hit by the car of the mother mouse'sfather(lets call her loraine) push him out of the way. This way Loraine will fall in love with you instead of George. Since your species's are incompatible there will be no baby mice to infest your house. Now return to your own time and make sure you didnt completely fuck everything up.

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" @Wolverine: Because there aren't enough rats in the world? "

Because what is the point of killing a living thing when it isn't necessary at all? "

Those humane traps that have doors that close behind the mice work very well, I've found. Then what you could do is take it, say, a mile away or so and let it go.

That's what I do, but I live in a rural area. This might be different for you.

You might have to use a metal slinky, a rubber band, cake, a laser pointer, a microwave, and a fleshlight. That might work too.

Put a Hockey mask on and chase the mice around the house with a big knife.

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I did a quick mock up for you. Perhaps something like this.

I do hope this helps.

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A cat will eat a mouse so thoroughly that you won't even see a spec of blood afterwards.

well, if you want zany action, then maybe build a crazy contraption, only then will the fun be 'catching', as you will have made a mousetrap

or use gluestrips, cheese and a baseball bat, either or, your call