Found this behind my microwave...

[dekez]

I heard some noises behind the microwave last night, pulled it out and found this little guy. He just kind of sat there, so I caught him in a pint glass, and took him down the road to a local park. Couldn't bring myself to "dispose" of him properly.

I've just moved into my house, I'm redecorating the whole place but haven't done the kitchen yet. Does anyone have any experience with mice? Any chance this is just a lone mouse or am I going to have loads of them somewhere and have to start laying traps?

 

[dekez]

I'd personally say, judging by the type of mouse, he's a loner (awww).

I hope so, I've been living there a month and this is the first I've seen or heard anything.

 

[dekez]

If he just let you catch him there must have been something wrong with him

prob already dying

It was a bit weird I think he was just really scared, I thought maybe it was some kind of deluded defence thing - "if I don't move he can't see me".

When I got him in the pint glass he was jumping around like mad trying to get out, and he ran of pretty quick when I released him.

 

[dekez]

Looks like it's about to cak itself

Yep it crapped several times in the glass.

Mice are never loaners.
If your neighbour is a scuffy mess then possibly you will never get rid of them. All you can do is not leave any food anhywhere and block the holes in your kitchen

I'll be doing up the kitchen soon so will be able to have a good investigation and block everything up.

I can hear ten thousand mice laughing out loud at you. There'll be moving in & treating you like there bitch within a week.

lol, now I've released him he'll tell the others where I live, and that I'm soft and won't kill them!

 

[dekez]

How far away was the park? I heard that you have to take them over a mile away to be sure they don't come back.

We had some living in our garage. In the end had to resort to the non humane traps as the other type were useless.

It was a good few hundred metres and across some pretty busy roads, I should have tagged him with paint so I would know if he came back. I'd actually be quite impressed if he did.

If there are more I'll end up using lethal traps, one mouse is cute, an infestation isn't. Oh well, at least I don't have rats.

 

[dekez]

Female mice can have 2000 babies in a few months, That is some Serious Pasty smashing.

Why am I wondering what a mices pasty will look like after 2000 babys.

If an army of 2000 mice, led by a painted, clothed mouse, who is walking funny, I will try to take a picture before they attack to send to you.

 

[dekez]

I rid our house of about 15 mice using a humane trap, they were in the loft. Took them for a ride down to a nearby field, none ever came back as far as I could tell, the humane trap worked very well. Use chocolate as bait - cheese is nowhere near as effective.

You do have to check the trap regularly though!

That's good to hear, I'd much rather go down the humane root if possible.

 

[dekez]

What do you think will happen to a house mouse stuck in an unknown location outdoors miles away...

Humane is a good sprung bar mousetrap. I've had one go off literally seconds after placing it behind a box and going to leave the room. Dead as a doormat just like that. Never had one suffering on me.

Whatever you're comfortable doing though.

It's valid point. For me though I don't believe I have the right to end some things life because it's inconveniently taken up residence in my house. I did make sure my captives were released near some farm outbuildings and good cover. Their fate is in their own hands (paws?) - I'm giving them a chance, whereas a mouse trap is no chance. Live and let live!

I think an animals instinct is to survive, and a mouse (or any animal) would always want to escape rather than die. Sometimes this will work out, other times it will cause more suffering. Sometimes the most humane choice is to end the life.

But I think a mouse has a fair chance of survival in a park at night with bushes and shelter, which is why I chose that option.

 

[dekez]

Or all three, combined, into a Snake-cat-ferret monster o doom!

lol

My next thread will be:

Guys I've caught a snake-cat-ferret monster o doom under a washing basket...

 

[dekez]

Should have grown some and killed it.
Let's take a look at this story.
The op released the mouse.
Said mouse found another house to live in where a small child lived called Johnny.
Mouse contaminates new house with Salmonella-Hantavirus and even Lyme Disease.
Little Johnny Is only 3 years old but is going to die soon because the mouse spread salmonella over the surface that little Johnny dropped his sweets on, his sticky little fingers wiped over the germs and as he put the sweets back into his mouth he got infected.
Later that day Johnny gets Salmonella developed diarrhoea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without treatment.

In some persons the diarrhoea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalised. In these patients, the Salmonella infection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause death.

Johnny was buried 5 days later, and his mother distort with pain and anguish killed herself.

Never release vermin, kill it always.

Geez don't know what's more depressing, this or that I could have let next doors child's lost mouse out into the wilderness - if I get a knock on the door tonight..

All vermin should be killed, so thats mice, rats, pigeons, foxes... in fact pretty much any animal that has the misfortune of living where humans do.

I propose we do this with Tefals murderous zoo army while we still can (lets hope they don't get us or little Johnny) and then kill the zoo army afterwards.

Presumably with dinosaurs.