Best Way to Catch a *Gulp* Vermin?

It's probably a mouse. If it is getting cooler where you are they are trying to move in and set up house before the cold comes.
In our summer home we use regular mousetraps and peanut butter.
You can place it right next to your fruit bowl, then in the am clean real well.
Be sure to put all your food away and take out the trash in case any of his friends have found the entrance to the new mansion.
Mice are annoying but probably won't bring in any terrible diseases

DO NOT use poison. The mouse will ingest it then go into the walls where his hiding place is. He will then die in there and that is a real pain in the tuckus to clean up if he starts to rot.

Spring snap trap (classic kind) with some peanut butter bait.
"Heeeeeere mousy, mousy!"

Good old fashioned snap trap with some stinky cheese or some other tasty morsel should do the trick. Eeeks!

The sticky pads work great too. Yuck for you and good luck!

We like to use the sticky traps that are not killing traps. Mice and rats don't avoid these like they do the spring traps. They get caught on the sticky stuff, and you hear them rustling around when they try to get out. The issue then is that you have a trapped live critter on this tray :) I leave the disposal issue up to my DH. This works much better than the other traps in our experience.

We bought an electric mouse trap from amazon. It's a little pricey at $20, but it's reusable. You just put peanut butter in it and the mouse runs in and bam, it's dead. Then, all you have to do is open the little door and dump it out. We loved it. We used to live next to an open field so the winter months were awful and we had tons of mice. and this mouse trap was the best solution we found. good luck!

We used the glue/sticky pads with some success. Once I left a sinkful of dishwater & caught/drowned one that way! Blecch.... it was startling, to say the least.

That was in Missouri. Hubs ended up plugging the holes. We moved to Shanghai & graduated to rats! Our apartment leasing office gave us giant-sized glue pads. Hubs caught one, threw it on top of trash pile outside (it was still kicking, etc) & scared the daylights out of the housekeepers the next a.m.!

The second rat was more wily & we never caught him. We had to move to another apartment complex anyway, so that was the end of that chapter.

GL!