I have a rat (mouse?) in my house. (What's the difference?)
A while back, i poisoned one. I bought the poison in the street for 50bob (that's about 0.8c US). I went to the supermarket later and found it was being sold there for about a quarter of the price! I was amused rather than annoyed.

Anyway, I left the pink pellets in the kitchen and a few days later found the dead mouse in my drawer. Yeah, now you won't eat in my house, eh? It was an empty drawer.

A while later, the successor tenant mouse showed up in my sitting room. It ran to my 'entertainment centre' (Hehehehehe! I'll upload a picture) I think they sleep there and listen to music. Then it decided to run to the kitchen. I was in the sitting room all this time. I think I scared it back at first attempt. Then it tried again and I was ready with a sandal. Or maybe I picked up the sandal the first time it ran across - I can't quite remember. Whoosh! Smack. One flying sandal + Excellent aim = One ex-mouse.

I see the current one darting back and forth from time to time. One day I was in the supermarket and i bought a rat trap similar to the one pictured. (Yahoo seems not to be uploading the trap picture, so you can see it here). (Entertainment centre here) It has a frame that you pull back and hold down with a lever. The lever is held by a device on which you place some enticement. Ideally, the rat should get enticed, step on the device holding the lever, causing the lever to be released and Snap! The frame is sprung back and you have one trapped rat. Probably dead rat or at least one with spinal injury.
In practice, I got one slightly bleeding thumb as the frame snapped my thumb onto the serrated jaw of the trap. I set the trap I think on four different occasions with pork and other major enticements. No rat/mouse in trap. I think the mouse is very light (weight, not complexion), such that it's weight does not release the lever. Or the lever gets a bit stuck. The mouse has been living large. Maybe it likes me now.

This morning I tried my own invention. I put tied some meat to the bottom of an empty plastic jar. I turned the jar upside down and lifted one end, so that the meat was hanging inside (but touching the floor) and towards the end on the jar that is touching the ground. I supported the other end with a toothpick held by some cellotape. I'll go home and see how my version worked. At least this trap doesn't need careful handling by me.
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Around Christmas, having noticed that Christy likes books, I bought her a cloth book like this one I found randomly by searching. I think babycenter recommended cloth books as well. Cloth book my foot. Christy knows no such thing. I gave her the book and she promptly put it on her head in an attempt to wear it, as she does perceived articles of clothing. I guess to her, something is either a book or cloth, not both.