When I unpacked my Christmas tree ............

[Redburnett]

.... I caught sight of movement out of the corner of my eye, and a little sleek brown furry mouse climbed out of the branches and up the box, looked around, and ran off. Now lurking somewhere in my living room.

Oh god, nightmare. And where there is one there is always more than one.

Oh, no, was it kept in the loft or garage

Not necessarily- we only had one once. I think it was some kind of field mouse ? Was teeny tiny with a wiggly nose and clearly either male or infertile as didn’t have babies 😂😂😂 we use every trap available even sticky ones didn’t catch him so gave up after a month and for a year had humane ones he evaded them and yet every night he still came out and wasn’t scared of us ??? He got so brave we gave up any hope of catching him and just accepted him as some kind of strange pet. He liked biscuit crumbs 😂😂😂 then one day we never saw him again ??

It's only a little mouse. I just pick them up and put them outside. Get a humane trap, put some food in it, they can't resist and release it outside.
Nothing to be scared of.

A humane trap will sort it.

The tree had been stored in the garage - there is bird seed stored in the garage... I think it is a field mouse rather than a house mouse.
I will try and catch it and release it in the garden before my relative visiting for Christmas comes with their cat.

Could you tell that to my visitor. He's ignored the food in the humane trap for 3 days now

Awh! Hopefully you can catch the poor thing and let it go outside, maybe put some seeds on a small dish and see if it is hungry

They're so cute a friendly, nothing to be scared of

You could put a welly on the floor and hope it goes in that. We get mice in our garage also, probably because of the bird seed

That’s adorable!

Am very jealous of your Christmas mouse.

We had a furry little house mouse a couple of years ago. We bought a humane trap, caught it, walked to a nearby wood, opened the box and it happily ran off into the trees.
This we repeated over the next couple of weeks every time we heard a noise in the trap.

I actually think it was the same little house guest that kept coming back. Mice apparently can return to the same house unless you take them at least a mile away.

We also have a resident mouse but in our case it's because bastard cat brought it in, let it go and we couldn't catch it.

Bastard cat also doesn't seem bothered about catching mice once they are INSIDE the house 🤦‍♀️

Luckily for me I quite like mice

Aww this has made my day! I hope it finds somewhere warm & safe with plenty of food/water/mouse amusements.

Have a tea towel ready, in case you see it, then throw tea towel over it, this should trap him gently, then you can scoop him up and put outside.

Hopefully the mouse hasn't left some lovely baubles on the tree...

My mum found the SKY remote that had disappeared almost a year before.

That cute furry little mouse, like all of his relatives is permanently incontinent. He’ll have left a trail wherever he’s been.
😉😁😁😁.

Yep, got a none-paying furry resident rodent here, too!

The dopey Ddog seems to take no notice at all, and once came face to face with it in the yard… and ran back in the house! 🙄

This is a large German Shepherd dog, by the way… the mouse is smaller than its paw😆

You need this book, its adorable

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/TheChristmassMouse.html?id=CjfuBQAAQBAJ&source=kpbookkdescription&redir_esc=y

I got quite skilled at catching mice by hand when I had a cat. I think he enjoyed watching me do his job.

Well the mouse escaped the visiting cat ..... but finally.....