Humane mouse trap?

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I think we have a mouse in the garage. Been in this morning and I could hear some scratching. Cat was straight in after me and very focused on one particular area and had to practically drag her away!

I hate the idea of poison (plus very dangerous as cat will often slip in the garage undetected) so what's the best humane way of getting rid of it?

You can get cages to trap them then let them go where you want. Peanut butter works well as bait.

It might be a rat.

@Namenic eek don't say that! I much prefer the idea of a teeny cute mouse 😂

Going to have a look in wilko today as it's next door to work and see what I can find.

Fab just checked online and Wilko do a live capture trap for £6!

Chocolate spread works well as bait too. Release it far away or it will find its way back in.

We thought ours was mice but it wasn’t. We got a humane trap and released 2 into woodland. We got a pest control guy in that caught 1 (over several weeks) - and he said it was a juvenile rat.

We 'heard scratching' it turned out to be mice.

Humane traps work but you will have more than one mouse/rat. Be careful you do not end up with lots. They cause lots of damage and are prolific breeders !

We ended up going down the poison route Then blocking up any ways in for them.

We have three cats by the way

Humane traps are not humane. Where are you going to release these mice - away from known food and shelter sources in winter? Better to kill them outright with a little nipper trap or similar. They’ll just starve to death otherwise.

They will find other food and shelter. The rest of the mouse population survives winter without residing in my garage

I just cannot be responsible for ending an animals life no matter how small or annoying.

nothing humane about catch and release, and you will probably kill it anyway as it struggles in the wrong place. Just slowly.

Screwfix snap traps. Really quick. To empty, take to a hedge and drop the dead mouse in, the badgers/foxes will do the rest.

humane traps are horrendous.

either you have to dispatch aka kill the mouse yourself afterwards or you take it far enough away from home (more than a mile) so it can't find it's way back and it gets killed by local wildlife or die of exposure/starvation.

the old fashioned spring traps + mouse proofing are the best way to keep mice population manageable.

Catch and release makes you feel better but us really unkind for the mouse as previous posters have said.

I know it is awful to think about killing wildlife however mice and rats are prolific breeders and you risk being over-run with them if you leave them.

The person who solved our issues was a 'humane' pest remover but even he said that taking them and releasing elsewhere is cruel for the reasons already stated.

When I lived in central London we used an humane trap to capture ‘Clive’ who was squatting in the walls of our kitchen. Following his capture we took him to a large park and left him with some food and cotton wool (no idea why). Anyway, a short time later Clive returned looking a lot more buff than when we set him free in the park. We ended up blocking every little hole in the wall which moved him on somewhere else we had hoped....—or he starved to death in the walls—.

You will be responsible for their death anyway as they’ll starve to death if you release them in an unknown area. Humane traps are anything but. Use a snap trap.

Use snappy traps,humane traps are anything but.

Snap trap as others have said, and if you catch one, keep setting it until you've gone several nights without catching any, as it's likely there is more than one.

Of course you need to put them somewhere the cat can't get to, but this shouldn't be difficult. Eg pull cardboard boxes a few cm out from the wall and put the trap well out of paw's reach behind.

Best method?

Find all the tiny little gaps and holes and block them with wire wool . Really push into the gaps with a pencil or similar .

If you make enough noise then hopefully the mouse will take it's leave and take its family with it ( though hopefully no baby mice at this time of year)

Then you have the best humane trap available to mankind . The Cat .
Send her into the garage and even if she isn't sucessful, hopefully her smell will put them off .

We have 2 cats and no signs of mice (we have had in previous years . Space under the floorboards where they gather and all those little spaces they can fit in )
Our cats haven't caught anything but I'm hoping they're a deterrant

My cats were not humane traps. Well, one at least killed them quickly. The other... not sure if it was incompetence or that she actually liked to torture her food

Another vote for snap traps. I did this research myself a while back You're just in denial or avoidance if you think humane traps are humane. It will be a slow miserable death for the mouse. I guess at least you won't have to witness it

Humane trips are not humane when you go on holiday.

And we had little buggers who ate their way into them from the outside, never triggering the mechanisms.

Snappies all the way.