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DP has caught a mouse. Now what?

23 replies

TheBeesKnee · 08/10/2019 00:33

We have 2 mice in the house. DP has used a humane trap to catch one. It's a field mouse. It's absolutely tiny. After a while it's friend ran across the floor. They are probably very stressed. I don't know what to do with it.

If we release it outside, it will die from exposure.

But we can't have mice living in the house.

FFS what do we do? Sad

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Soola · 08/10/2019 00:36

It won’t die of exposure if you release it in a field.

Dreamscomingtrue · 08/10/2019 00:37

It’s not that cold outside, I don’t think that it will die of exposure. It has probably come in from outside in search of food.

If you’re that bothered buy a cage and keep it, and it’s friend, as pets?

RolytheRhino · 08/10/2019 00:40

I'd check what diseases they're likely to have on board before keeping them as pets tbh. Go and release them in a nice field.

Gotthetshirt23 · 08/10/2019 00:43

Not sure but think they need to be released a certain distance from your house?

QuestionableMouse · 08/10/2019 00:54

You can't keep them as pets. The stress will probably kill them anyway.

Release them outside, they'll be fine but they'll probably find a way back in unless you can close up the gaps. Steel wool works really well.

Blankiefan · 08/10/2019 06:19

How do you know there are only 2?

Bookbandconfusion · 08/10/2019 06:21

Release quite a way away from your house or they may find their way back!

PenelopeFlintstone · 08/10/2019 06:25

Are you sure it’s a field mouse?

BelindasGleeTeam · 08/10/2019 06:30

Unlikely to be a field mouse but it'll be fine outside.

Take it at least half a mile away though or it'll be back!

captainprincess · 08/10/2019 07:39

Of course it won't die of exposure, where do you think it came from?!
I have caught a few in humane traps that my cats have brought in and released them. They always scamper off.

Quartz2208 · 08/10/2019 07:41

Release it outside it will be perfectly fine

Do not keep in a cage that will upset them even more

nottodaysatanlucifer · 08/10/2019 07:42

I'm pretty sure you have to go quite far away from your house when letting it go, or it'll just come straight back.

Also I highly doubt you just have 2. They breed like mad.

PancakeAndKeith · 08/10/2019 07:43

As the saying goes, you never have just one mouse.

enjoyingscience · 08/10/2019 07:44

They definitely won’t die outside. And there definitely won’t only be two! They have a lot of babies very quickly.

Twirlypoos · 08/10/2019 07:44

Humane traps are anything but humane. You need to release them miles away from
Home, they won’t know where to get food and will die anyway. Get some snap traps to do the job properly.

AnnaMagnani · 08/10/2019 07:45
  1. How sure are you it's a field mouse? House mice are tiny
  2. Mice live outside. It'll be fine.
  3. You don't have 2. You have many.
  4. Mice are incontinent. Your house is covered in mouse wee. Not so cute now are they?
AltheaVestr1t · 08/10/2019 07:45

I have cats, who are often to lazy to finish the job, so this happens fairly regularly. I just stick them out at the bottom of the garden.

AltheaVestr1t · 08/10/2019 07:46

I’m pretty sure a wild mouse will be able to find food anywhere and won’t die from exposure from being outside.

moobar · 08/10/2019 07:50

Grinremind anyone else of phoebe in friends and her rat babies......

Original poster
TheBeesKnee · 08/10/2019 07:51

Mice are incontinent. Your house is covered in mouse wee. Not so cute now are they?

Oh bloody hell I didn't know this

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Booboostwo · 08/10/2019 07:57

There isn’t anything really humane you can do with mice. The choice is to kill them quickly or to live with them. If you release them they always try to come back home. If they are close enough they make it back, if they are far away they get eaten by predators.

peridito · 08/10/2019 08:28

Gosh what a bunch of jolly answers .

it could be a field mouse and 2 of them could have wandered in rather than setting up a breeding station in your house .

the whole house won't be covered in wee ,just the odd dark corner underneath something

just release it outside as far away as poss and it can take it's chances

Elieza · 08/10/2019 09:00

Release it as far away as possible quickly, the humane traps are great but the little creatures must be nearly having heart attacks with fear being trapped in them.

It will find a new nesting site and be fine. They live outside and in hedgerows etc.

If you want to see where it has peed get a torch with the uv light. I got one for £2.99 on eBay. Pee shows up as bright greeny yellow so it’s easy to see. Then you know where to clean and also you may find where the wee buggers are getting in as there may be a bigger concentration of pee there? If so you can fill the hole up with concrete or more will move in. Check the cupboards where you keep plates and cups for pee too btw, better safe than sorry!

Ps I like mice, my cat brings them in and I’ve not had any bother with anything. I just put them out again.

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