We've caught a mouse... It's adorable

[Beebityboo]

We have finally caught the elusive mouse we've had in our kitchen. He's currently snacking away on a peanut in the humane tunnel trap we have.
What would be the best way and time to release him?
Or are we allowed to keep him?... Only half joking.

SionnachGlic
Specially for you...
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Anyone ever read the Dick King Smith story about Mr and Mrs mouse ?
Just popped into my head at the mention of family ...

(drifts off in nostalgia about DS enjoying DKS stories - especially the titles ...)

This was 'Mr Mouse' who lived with us near our tent when we were camping in North Yorkshire. I eat porridge for breakfast (where you just add hot water to the pot) and he was sniffing around the pot which I had placed on the floor as it was hot.

He was incredibly tame and I hand fed him every day with oats / pita bread and some tortilla wrap. Someone said 'But if you get bitten you might get rabies'........ I'm fully inoculated against rabies as I look after and help rehabilitate injured bats so thought it was a risk I was willing to take

I hope your mouse lives a long and happy life, Beebityboo!

I do think it's a shame we are unable to live alongside creatures like this. I'm a pack a picnic lunch and a jumper type woman. Though I'd probably try and build a mouse town in the garden and get better at storing food safely indoors.

We have them in the garage sometimes- they trashed some Christmas stuff. We've now got plastic boxes for everything remotely nestable in, and make sure bird food etc is kept in tins.

I tried a humane trap-our spaniel broke it open and ate the mouse!

They are in no way ‘cute’. We are currently trying to catch one in our basement and the thought of it keeps me on tenderhooks day and night. I’m having to send dcs down for anything (we have a larder unit down there) because I’m that petrified of them.

They are in no way cute.

I just can’t understand that.

Says someone with a baby spider!

Those teensy wee eyes, that cute little nose, the whiskers! Those teensy little paws...

Ha ha. No I was quoting what “H1978” said
and that I can’t understand how anyone could say they’re in no way cute.

Don’t forget their tiny tails 😍😍😍😍😍😍

When I had mice I caught them in humane traps and released them (far away), there's been studies done on how far to release then where they marked the mice and it needs to be 2 miles or more, otherwise they will return. It took them approx 2 weeks to come back so those who say they won't survive are wrong.
Ours were field mice, if you live relatively rurally then that will be what they are, bigger ears (and cuter). Where there's one there's usually 10 more

@Thefaceofboe

I feel you! I promise I didn’t keep him...

That looks like a harvest mouse and iirc they're quite rare so good job for not killing it.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

Ha ha. No I was quoting what “H1978” said and that I can’t understand how anyone could say they’re in no way cute.

Oh I seeeeee. (Spiders still are not cute!)

Don’t even dare post that photo of a grinning spider that look like it’s grinning, just don’t!

Get some sonic repellant things then Get the landlord out to block off all the holes deal with what's left in the house how you see fit

Quite cute so long as the little buggers stay out of our house.

This one has some brass neck.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

Ha ha. No I was quoting what “H1978” said and that I can’t understand how anyone could say they’re in no way cute.

I even have to quickly scroll down the pictures posted on this thread as even a picture makes me shudder. 😳

I live in the countryside and I often get mice coming in at this time of year to find somewhere cosy for the winter. I release them a couple of km away and so far that has been the end of the problem. It isn´t guaranteed that your mouse will come back again, so I would give the capture and release thing a go before killing.

I've got a mouse too. He's wild but comes to eat the birds' nuts.

House mice and rodents that have lived in buildings for their entire lives will have a slim chance of surviving outdoors. That's from the humanesociety.org

If it's a house mouse it not exactly humane to release it where it can't get back and has slim chance of surviving. If it's used to being outside fine it will probably have more chance of survival.

@WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo

It will starve to death if you release it, mice don't survive away from their area. The kindest thing to do would be to kill it.

What rubbish

PickAChew I think yours must be a woodmouse. Now they are cute! I see one or two in my tiny woodland type garden each year. They won't come into a house except by accident and only live about 18mos because of natural predators. They climb and jump and mine don't realise they're supposed to be nocturnal creatures... have seen one in the middle of a group of sparrows happily sharing the bird seed on the grass, and every so often standing up on its hind legs to peer over the top... best thing was a bit of family life with the parents standing together at the foot of some staging, keeping watch on a silver haired baby who was running up a short slope to the top of a little wall, peering over the edge and then jumping down it. Rinse and repeat

I have no sympathy for mice OP after an infestation a few years ago in a previous house. I had no idea how bad it was until we were over run, think poo all over the sides and kitchen table every morning etc so had to get the exterminator out.

Current house knew there was activity, we back on to a field, so went straight for the snap traps and caught 4 within a few hours of setting the trap. Rather that than them chewing through wires and causing a fire