To not want to kill the mouse!

[Chuckitinthefuckitbucket]

Just realised we have a mouse/ mice. One ran over my foot in the kitchen after chewing through a washing machine pipe (water everywhere).
But I don't want to kill it, I have no choice do I?
Humane traps don't work/ mean they just starve wherever you release them and those sticky traps/poison are awful, so it will have to be the old fashioned snap ones :(
We are a middle terrace house, apparently this means the whole terrace probably has them? Since discovering one in the kitchen I'm 90% sure I can hear them in the attic! Does this mean we have to get some professional pest control in??

Also go around on hands and knees with torch and look for droppings and lay traps in those areas. Behind appliances, furniture, check they havnt got in your cupboards.

I've got a plug-in thing too, haven't seen a mouse in years.

Remember, any hole you can get a pencil into, a mouse can get through.
Keep food in wall mounted cupboards, never floor level.

I used chocolate in a humane trap. Although I found I had to weight it with a two pence as well.

Set it at night and took the mouse to a local wild area after the school run in the morning. Gave the mouse a chance to live or not, and become a part of another animals food chain.

Did the best I could in a bad situation, no guilt here.

I have seen a mouse in our garden about 6 times in the last 6 months. I think it's the same one - he hides under the rabbit hutch. My ds dropped a corn on the cob - when nobody was in the garden, I saw him run out and get it. I have not done anything about it. Is this wrong? It has not got into the house or done anything that has bothered me.

Could you borrow a neighbouring cat? My friend coaxed abducted a cat into her house so it would catch her mice!!! Apparently it worked though

I had a mouse in my car once. It are through my baby carrier wrap. I was very grossed out. Got rid of the car soon after (it was on its last legs anyway!)