I have a mouse in my living room...

[StillMedusa]

Bastard cat brought it in earlier.. it escaped. Couldn't find it.
However a few moments ago it emerged from who knows where, smirked at me and ran back under the furniture! I can't find it!

How do I capture it humanely? I've put cheese down but the dog just ate that! (So much for doggos enhanced sense of smell..she didn't even notice the mouse...)

We get them regularly, often we can get them in a corner and catch them with a cup and sheet of paper and release them. They love a boot to hide in, have twice found live mice in the toe of a boot.
Or you could lock the cat in the room with the mouse and hope the issue resolved by morning?
Do find it though, we were alerted a few weeks ago to the body of a dead mouse when bluebottles appeared. Grim.

Usually the cat tells me where it is and then I trap it in a pot or box from the recycling or whatever is to hand.

They adore Mars bars and snickers though if you're putting out a humane trap.

Get the cat back in the room and keep pointing the cat around until she gets it

Then squeal and do flappy hands while screeching "getitoutgetitoutgeitout" and running in a circle.

Peanut butter will tempt it out

Get an empty glass milk bottle drop a chunk of chocolate in it and leave in the mouses usual place laying on its side. In the morning you should find a mouse sitting in the milk bottle ,full of chocolate. (. The smoothness of the glass and angle of the neck of the bottle makes it extremely difficult for the mouse to escape. Then you drive 10 miles and let him go!!!

This. I have a “mouse mug” which is a crappy old mug that I’d never use for a guest.

Strategy is to place mug as gently as possible over the mouse. Then I slide kitchen roll underneath it. Lift/turn mug upright, ensuring that kitchen roll is tightly held over the top. Take said mouse out the front of the house (cats have no access there) and release it.

Just to say it makes me happy to know that people are being kind to mice by treating them humanely.

My groggy old boy of a cat miraculously became a demon mouser in his last year of life, having caught nothing at all before. I suddenly had to deal with mouse presents being deposited in the bedroom at 3am several times a week. It was a pita to wake up & catch them but I got good at it. I used an up-turned plastic mixing bowl & piece of card. We used to photograph & name them before rehoming them in the front garden. (Cat never went out the front).

It got so bad I had to lock the cat flap in the end & get an indoor litter tray Poor boy has passed now... 😪

If you want to catch it in a corner or behind furniture etc try throwing a wet tea towel over it. It's heavy enough to stop it but without harming it. And you don't need good aim. Then quickly scoop up inside the towel and take outside to a lovely covered area for it to hop away happily.

How do you get him out of the bottle? Shake him out like ketchup?

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I am sooooo tempted to do this in my hen area where I have a rat issue.

You can get some little human traps which can be loaded with peanut butter that the dog canot get.

e.g.
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Humane traps.

Not little human traps

Luckily my cats have never brought a mouse in yet, but one of them did brought in a little bird once. I spent a while trying to catch it with cartoon style traps (boxes on a stick/some sort of prop up, tied with scarves or other long things) in all the corners and just listened out for scuttling noises.

I did manage to catch it but it took a while.

Did bring* !!

It worked!!! I ordered a humane trap from Amazon,..set it up yesterday as we were away the previous days and this morning there was the mouse, munching its way through the peanut butter!
DH took it kayaking with him and released it on the river bank

Mind you the trap was on the opposite side of the kitchen to where we laid it, so I suspect either the dog or the cat had spent the night pushing it round!

Good news!

Set it again, just to be sure there are no more

Am imagining the mouse in a teeny-tiny life jacket on a kayaking adventure!

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Furries

Bucket trap! Various options. If you set it up now and shut the door of the room its in by the morning you should find the mouse in the bucket.

Ah, only just spotted you've already caught it. Key reason why I havent got a cat - I cant bear the idea of it bringing mice in.