To not want to keep them?

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Background - roughly 2 weeks ago my dd who is 3 started talking to some imaginary friends, Zoe and Chloe. All quite sweet and nothing harmful, we often hear her talking to them in the living room if we are in the kitchen.

This morning I was making a cup of coffee whilst DH takes ds to school and I can hear dd saying here Chloe have some toast but share with Zoe.
Thought I would go and film her (bribery material for when she is older ) only to find to my horror that there are two mice sitting on the floor in front of her and she is hand feeding them toast!

General panic and screaming from me and then dd as I have scared her friends!

Anyway DH has just got in to find me bleaching and scrubbing everywhere, he's had a listen and decided we should catch them and cage them as pets!

I'm not being unreasonable to say no fucking way right? I feel sick at the thought of mice breeding and loving in our house, and he is merrily looking at mouse cages on eBay.

At least you're dealing with it now - don't feel bad.

The old-fashioned traps do normally kill them very quickly so they don't usually suffer. Clear out the shed, block up any obvious holes they can get in and out through (both house and shed, around water pipes is often easy for them where there is a hole in the wall for the pipe). Wire wool works quite well, I think somebody mentioned that yesterday. Get rid of/put in plastic or metal boxes any food they might be eating in shed or kitchen (I once accidentally treated a mouse family to a nice box of grass seed in my shed).
I have a constant problem as my neighbour thinks mice are sweet and thinks she only has one living in her house , I do use poison as then it's easy to see whether it is being taken. But old-fashioned traps work, so do the ones that electrocute them. IME the plug in ultrasound repellents don't work. I'm not above sticky boards in extremis but I suspect you wouldn't be keen.

Urgh, no, please don't use sticky traps! The snap traps you bought are probably the most efficient and humane way to deal with them.

Don't be mortified, the wee buggers get everywhere. We get visitors most years (live rurally) and use snap traps. Caught six of them in the space of one episode of Corrie.

I agree re alternating bait, peanut butter always worked very well for us.