Woolworths sell really great mousetraps. They are grey plastic, I think they are called "Striker" or something similar? We've had a bit of a mouse problem in the last few months, and it was a shock to me having never had mice problems before! We first became aware there was at least one mouse when I woke up one night to hear scrunching sounds...and there was a little mouse munching away on a ferrero rocher behind the bedside table (I have no idea where the chocolate even came from!!).
Where there is one mouse, chances are there are more...so set a few mouse traps if you can. Maybe one behind the speaker it was behind, one in the pantry, one under the kitchen sink etc. They love peanut butter, so I use a bit of that on the traps. The woolies ones are great, they aren't like a traditional mousetrap with the wire...once it snaps shut you can't see the mouse's head and don't have to touch it to get it out of the trap...hard to explain but my mum told me about these traps and having tried them they are great.
It's ok...I screamed when I first saw our little mouse too..threw an icecream container at it (DF was trying to catch it to get it out of our bedroom) and screamed again and the little bugger squealed back at me! Lol.
We actually had one a few nights ago that DH caught thankfully! I cannot stand them in the house but we have parrots outside the back door under our patio and the bird seed attracts them. We are building an avery in the back corner of the yard very soon so hopefully we won't get them anymore. They always end up in our bottom kitchen drawer - ewwwww.
LOL snugglybean - I know how you feel. I once had a mouse in the house that my cat brought in and let go I went to so much effort to catch it alive and free it again, then when I told the people at work (who all grew up in the country), they told me off for saving a mouse as mouse plagues cause a lot of damage and loss to farmers.
took us 20 minutes the other night to catch our little buggar in a woolies trap with peanut butter....
no you don't have to touch them to get them out, but I tend to chuck the whole thin.....ewwww
We had a mouse problem a couple of weeks ago. When you think about it, they all breed over the summer and now that the cooler weather is coming on, they are looking for shelter (Dont know why it has to be in my house though....). The grey traps are definately the best as is the peanut butter. The traps are so easy and safe to set as apposed to the old wooden ones. You can also block any holes that the little buggers are coming through with steel wool.
saw this the other night - thought it was a fabulous idea...
If you dont want to kill it, get your self a mars bar, a ruler and a bucket big enough that it cant climb out of again.
Put the bucket next to a ledge (tv unit, box, coffee table whatever) and the ruler hanging over the edge over the bucket. It needs to be far enough over that it will tip and fall into the bucket when the mouse runs along it.
Open the mars bar and put the wrapper at the beginning for the ruler, and half the mars bar on the end of the ruler above the bucket.
Eat the rest of the mars bar and go to bed
The mouse will come along, be enticed by the wrapper and run along the ruler to get to the mars bar, the ruler, marsbar and your mouse will all fall into the bucket, quite unharmed, with their necks intact (not withering on the floor in a painfull drawn out death) and you can relocate the mouse where you want to.
and if you are not so nice like me you can fill the bucket with water and it will drown.
I've tried to be nice to them but all that happens is they find their way back in the house and bring along the extended family!!
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I went to so much effort to catch it alive and free it again, then when I told the people at work (who all grew up in the country), they told me off for saving a mouse as mouse plagues cause a lot of damage and loss to farmers. 
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