Humane mouse trap, advice please

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Just that really.
We have a mouse in the kitchen (luckily not a rat) all food is contained, dogs lick their bowls clean and their bowls are washed straight after. No idea where its food source is coming from. I am saying it, hoping it's only an 'it'
There is no way I can put down anything to harm it, so need advice on any humane traps that have been successful to you.
Many thanks in advance .

It doesn't exist.

'Humane' trap and release traps often kill the mice through hypothermia unless you are checking them every few hours.

If you release the mouse miles away it will probably die as they don't like familiar areas. If you release it less far away it will just find its way back.

The choices are live with it or kill it. Any option that isn't living with it is usually a choice to kill it, however far you remove yourself from that process.

Don't like UNfamiliar areas

Probably not what you want to hear but I have never found one that works and I am not convinced that catching a traumatised mouse and releasing it miles away in a new environment full of predators is that humane. I think the old fashioned sort that kill instantly are kinder.

We use peanut butter and release back into the garden, but ours only tend to come in when brought in by the cat.

Yikes, well thank you, not sure what to do now. Def can't live with it, because of disease implications, but the thought of killing it seems awful.....
Hmmm....

No such thing as a bachelor mouse I am afraid.

also please be aware that the stress of your "humane" trap, and the fact that mice have a memory map of their home and food sources and are very unlikely to rehabilitate sucessfully outwith of that means that Mousey will more than likely starve to death if the stress doesn't do for it.

So your best option is snap traps, placed around the edges of rooms, fill all gaps with brillo/wire wool/foil, check around areas where water pipes and electricity come into the building, and also check those areas internally...under the sink and under the bath.

A well stocked vegetable garden. they have no reason to come indoors then.

Snap traps are less awful to deal with than you would think. They are very cheap so you can throw the whole thing away without having to touch the dead mouse. It is sad seeing it, but there would be an awful lot of mice if we left them to get on with it.

We use these. A bit of nutella as the 'bait', and a conker near the entrance to tempt them in. Turns out mice love having a bit of a nibble at a conker.
We release them back into the garden - they're usually as lively as anything when we let them go - they sprint off (hopefully to escape the cat, which is how they came into the house in the first place).

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I've successfully used these
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place against a wall as mice tend to stick to the edges of a room

cover the transparent panel with a bit of card loosely placed on top

bait with chocolate ,peanut butter ,maybe half a grape so they don't die of thirst

put a bit of torn up kitchen towel or something so they can hide a bit ,though they sometimes lurk in the entrance channel bit

it may have to be in place for a day or two until they stop being suspicious of it

Someone recommended one to me yesterday on a post. I can't seem to link to it but search mouse in the house, I think I posted on the litter tray. I caught yesterday mouse in a regular snap trap as my cat keeps bringing them in but this is the first one I've used. It was a no touch one and was what appeared to be swift and not at all gory but I am after some humane ones as I worry about accidentally trapping my cat.

I agree that 'humane' mousetraps are anything but kind. There is nothing kind about trapping an animal in a small box with no food or water for hours on end, then transporting it to a strange place. The instant, painless death of a snap trap is much kinder.

I had a mouse under my kitchen cupboards and he ate through the skirting and ended up in the wall.Bought humane traps and kill traps,not one was touched in a week,in the end I left the kitchen door open for 72hrs straight and he left of his own accord the third night.

I used the little seesaw traps and released the mouse in the garden, it took a few days to catch it and I have seen it, it any evidence of a mouse since.

This was it

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I used stuff like this for blocking some holes ,it comes in white .

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Of course there are humane traps! Leave a bit of chocolate in it, and a teeny cup of water. Take it to a field etc then let it go.
It will scamper off.

Humane mouse traps don't exist.

I mean they don't work

I was thoroughly told off on MN when I humanely caught a mouse and released it 5 miles away (so it wouldn’t find its way home). Made out to be mouse traumatiser who had chosen to murder it slowly! So I used the cheap snap ones after that. Caught another 5 . I hated it so much but would rather they had a quick death than a slow terrified one.

Well this one is definitely in our shed/office

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And 2 mice have had a nice little stay in it then released into the hedge by a nearby field. Scampered off in fact.

Releasing a house mouse into a field is like releasing you, unprepared, into a random jungle somewhere. You don't know where to shelter, where to get food, where the dangers are or how to protect yourself, you don't know anyone and the locals won't necessarily take kindly to you.

Are you for real? Are you comparing the cognitive ability of a mouse with a human?
The mouse will be much more at home in a hedge than dead!

Yes, I'm for real. Small mammals are born, grow up, live and die in a particular environment. They learn what they can safely eat, how to orient themselves, what to be wary of, where they can hide, etc., in that particular setting. They often have complex social connections with conspecifics, without which they'll struggle. Dump them somewhere else, in an environment that they don't know, may not be evolutionarily fitted to survive in, and which they didn't learn their survival skills in, and they're pretty much screwed.

So you would prefer to kill them? Unreal.