A few questions:
1. If I were to capture a mouse alive without little harm to it as possible, what would be the best kind of trap to use?
2. If captured, would it be okay to sell it to someone else as a pet or companion (or have someone adopt it)?
We have a soccer field behind our house and we get field mice every fall about 2 to 4. I use the old fashioned method. I don't think they would make good pets.
shareThey're a pest that can do a lot of damage. A snap trap is the quickest, most humane way to get rid of them. Don't use stick traps, they are cruel as hell.
shareThey can be pretty tasty. Showing the proper gusto at the dinner table can also help mitigate an infestation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMBk3js7e0
Ewww!
shareRelax, I kid! Good movie though:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086005/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Hmm...guess I'll check it out! That scene reminds me of the "Chewbacca eating porg" scene in The Last Jedi....
shareSerious answer for the mice: release 'em back into the wild, away from anybody's house. If you're going to do this on a regular basis, use a few different locations and vary your routine, otherwise something that eats mice may notice and always be there for a hand-out.
I've seen this with Red-Tailed Hawks when someone was releasing squirrels near work.
That seems like a good idea. That's a very interesting observation about the predators as well.
shareI haven't "caught" any mice this Fall. I guess they have all gone to the neighbors.
shareGet a cat or terrier, and delegate the decision-making process.
shareI had a Rat Terrier who ran inside and went in my room and would not come when I called her. I found her in the corner hiding and I saw a tail coming out her mouth and I pulled it and out came a dead squirrel. She was trying to swallow it whole. Lol
shareThat time of year to go on mice alert.
shareI started early this year since the weather had been very cool
6 glue traps in all the usual spots for over a month now and nothing...
Hoping this is a trend🤞
I use the old trap ones with peanut butter. They can't resist the peanut butter.
shareIt's the best bait for them and it sticks perfectly to that little yellow trigger pad
I went with glue traps several
years ago after finding too many traps eaten bare of bait and the little stinkers got away...I don't know how they do it!
No mice again this year. I can put the traps away.
shareApparently your actions encouraged them to move on.
sharetwo years in a row with no mice.
shareI had a mouse in my house only once. Ick. I have no idea where he came from, but I put out sticky traps and he was dispatched. I don't count the time that one of my dogs caught one and brought it inside with her. I thought it was dead, but it wasn't. Once she had dropped it in the middle of the kitchen floor and I saw it move, I slapped a bowl or something over it. I walked around that thing for two days before I had the courage to lift it. By then it had expired. Whew.
shareI'm no expert, but I imagine that an adult wild mouse would not make a good pet.
A baby wild mouse (that is lost or abandoned) can make a wonderful pet, but it is a lot of work, knowledge, and patience to hand-raise them.
It's a dilemma for some, as they can be very cute but also can be uninvited, unwelcome pests. I would hope that if it is necessary to get rid of mice that it is done in a humane manner.