How to catch a mouse

Step one:  Don't use a cat.  They are worthless.  Although they do alert you to the presence of a mouse.  But will do nothing to actually catch the mouse.  Nothing more than keep you awake all night trying to get it out from under your bed.

Step two:  Feed them lots of peanut butter.  Directly off the trap.

Step three:  When you're folding laundry and you see it scurry across your bedroom and into the bathroom, lock it in!  Of course your cat still believes it's hiding in the corner behind the laundry bin.  (see step one)

Step four:  Accidentally let it out of the bathroom to roam the house freely.

Step five:  Trap it in the spare bedroom and hope that he'll actually not just get a free meal off the peanut butter on the trap.

Step six:  Hope for success when you hear the trap finally snap 12 hours later.

As you can tell, we've been trying to trap a mouse this weekend.  A few weeks ago Jupiter alerted us to his presence in the heater vent, so he's been hiding in there for awhile.  Well, we had to finally turn the heat on this weekend and he quickly found his way around the traps we had set and into the house.  He's been a difficult guy to catch.  Jupiter tried his hardest but the mouse alluded him, and us, for several days.  Now we'll need to spend our Sunday making sure we've clean up all his wonderful droppings!  I really hate mice!  Why can't they just stay outside where they belong?