Mouse in my bedside table

[Minikievs]

FFS! Just got woken up half an hour ago by the bloody cat bringing a (live) mouse into my bedroom. And now it's run underneath my bedside table and I can hear it scrabbling around.
Have pulled all the shit out the drawers and tipped it upside down but it's obviously hiding inside the runners or spaces inside. The drawers are the type that pull out but don't come all the way out so I can't remove the drawers and leave the cabinet carcass empty.
No more scrabbling so it's found somewhere safe and small inside the drawers to hide. Cat is just sat next to the table looking at me, expecting me to solve the problem 😩
I have a humane trap from last time this happened so I can put it in my room. But I really don't want to leave a mouse in my room and bugger off to work!
My room isn't massive, but there's LOADS of places that a mouse can hide in. Or die in.
What do I do?!

Your going to have to burn the house down.

Firstly keep the cat away, unless you want it to catch the mouse. The mouse will be reluctant to leave its hiding place with a cat nearby.
Secondly set up the humane trap and hopefully the mouse will be in it when you return.

There will be a way to remove the drawers entirely. Carry the thing into the garden and empty it out completely.

I want the cat to catch it, then I catch the mouse (in the "mouse jug" that I have specially for this purpose) and release it, which is usually what happens.
But I think you're right, it's never going to come out while the cat is there.
I am loathe to just give the mouse free rein in my bedroom though! It's an absolute tip now with stuff everywhere from me emptying the drawers. There are literally a million trillion places it could hide.
I could kick myself for not shutting the cat in the kitchen overnight.

We tore the room apart and eventually caught it when it last happened to us. Remember to close the door is my advice.

It's a wooden one and the drawers kind of "catch" as you pull them out. I've tried before to get them out when things have fallen down the back and I can't work out how to do it.
Plus, I'm not sure I want to stick my hand inside it when there's a mouse in there.
I don't mind them too much (I'll get close enough to catch them usually) but it's not like I want to get close enough to actually touch it.

Normally the catch is a small piece of wood at the back of the drawer you can spin round or undo in some way to slide the drawers out.

Put the drawers in the garden and deal with it later?

The catch will be a plastic tongue that you can reach in and push out of the way, or a little bit of wood wedged that you can angle around.

Basically, if the drawer got into the frame it has to be able to get out.

Nightmare OP!! With two keen feline hunters myself I sleep with my bedroom door closed nowadays, I have visions of them dropping one on me or my bed while I sleep 🤢

Put it in the garden til the weekend and hope it has either hopped out or died.

This is what I would do too.

Right I've removed the cat.
I'm going to bring the drawers down now and put them in the garden.
They're so heavy though.
It's times like this when I HATE BEING SINGLE. I've got to get the kids up in 15 mins and I'm dicking around carrying furniture around the house to put it outside in the rain!!
I also HATE THE CAT

I knew she'd got something as she came into my room with that little chirp that they do. And my heart sank.
I don't want your flipping presents!!

I once had a cat that brought in a rabbit through the bedroom window. I only realised when the dog wouldn't stop barking and realised there was a poor little rabbit quivering in the corner of the room!

I feel for you @Minikievs . Last Christmas my dh returned from a work trip to find me chasing 2 mice around the lounge. One had got into a sideboard and one was hiding in the Christmas tree. I had to build barricades to try and trap them.

I'm not sure what I'd do with a rabbit! Don't think it'd fit in my humane trap 😂
I'd rather a mouse than a bird. Last time she bought a bird in and stuck it under my bed, it was still alive and me trying to get it out meant it ended up flapping round my room and left massive sploshes of blood on my new cream blinds. That was a couple of years ago. She's not brought things upstairs for a while and I've been fooled into forgetting to close all the doors.
Cabinet now in garden. Trap in room.
Am now stressing that in the meantime, it's left the cabinet and is now somewhere else in my bedroom.
Hopefully it likes Nutella and peanut butter 🤞🏻

I wouldn't mind so much if I knew where it was! Am regretting leaving the room now to come downstairs for a coffee and a think about what to do. I should've stayed put, on MouseAlert

Leave, it's the mouses house now

It absolutely is. I've emptied the drawers in the garden (pp was right about the plastic catch)
No mouse
So it's living it up in my bedroom. Somewhere.
I'm going to sleep in the shed.

You need a trap involving an anvil, a pulley, a net and some yellow paint. Try the Acme corporation.

From my experience it won't come out until no one is there. And sadly when it is rescued and released chances of recapture are very high. My cat can track down a rescued mouse for hours afterwards.

I'd carry the bedside table outside into the garden open the drawers and leave it there, hopefully the mouse will work its own way out.

Sorry cross post