If you go with sticky trays, make sure to fasten them to something so the mouth can't pull it up under something and die. I don't like to use poison for the same reason. You end up having dead mice decaying and stinking and can't find where they hid. I have heard of another method that some may deem cruel but I have heard good results. Take a 5 gallon bucket and fill it about half full of water, put a hole in the bucket near the top and run a rod through it putting a paper towel holder over it inside the bucket. Put a little ramp up to it for the mice and bait the roller with peanut butter. They step out of the roller and slip into the water and drown.
You also might want to check into adding a little prevention as to where they are getting in at. My yard used to be a horse pasture and before that it was part of a corn field. Mice were everywhere when we moved in. I cleared everything back away from the basement doors and put in large stone (about 1" to 2". It seemed to slow them down enough getting to the door and I haven't had any mice in the house that I can tell anyway!!

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