Mouse

[tiggerblue10]

Last night I saw a small dark grey mouse scurrying across the squirting board in my living room. I like mice but I don't really want them uninvited in my house!!

What is the best most effective humane mouse trap available?

Thanks :o)

[emmie]

i got the pest control people in eventually,
who sorry but i couldn't have them in the house,
put down poison.

[emmie]

someone suggested a mouse trap with peanut butter on it, but if you are squeamish someone i am sure will recommend something more humane, be warned however, where there is one, there are more.

[Prudie]

I have had success with one of these
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

but that's for the odd one the cats have brought in alive, not an infestation. Could it be a one-off visitor?

[bookbinder]

I caught two mice with one of these, some time ago. It's quick and effective.
https://www.toolstation.com/easy-setting-metal-mouse-trap/p79718?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9uKlqPiy5wIVSLTtCh3rvgI9EAQYBSABEgKjF_D_BwE

[emmie]

but tigger doesn't want them dead, just out of the house...

[Prudie]

So do you mean humane by catching them alive or killing them swiftly (which I'm afraid poison doesn't do)

[tiggerblue10]

Thank you

I don't want it/them dead. I just want to release it in the garden.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps borrow next door's cat. Mouse should soon skedaddle.

[emmie]

it worked for me... i killed some myself, as i couldn't get the council people to come out first time round.

[emmie]

tigger, they have a way of coming back....

[bookbinder]

If you release it/them into the garden, might it/they not come back into your lovely, warm house?

[TonyV]

there was some advice on AB that mice can travel a long way to find there original "home"

[ubasses]

The one Prudie has given a link to is very good. We back on to a farm and often get 1 or 2 at harvest time. Always been successful using hamster food. As bookbinder pointed out they are homing creatures and need to be taken at least a mile. Find the best way is to put the trap in a cardboard box and go for a couple of mile drive and release.

[Sparkles62]

Tigger, if you release them into the garden, they will just make their way straight back.
If you scroll to the bottom of the link that Prudie sent there are some plastic, re-useable traps ( they look like they have teeth on them ) they kill instantly with no blood.
I use them in my garage. You just squeeze the trap to drop the mouse into the bin and reset it.
No blood, no mess, no mouse problem.

[bookbinder]

So, tigger, am I right in thinking that you don't want a mouse in your house, but you don't mind releasing it - alive - so that it might cause a nuisance to someone else?

[shoota]

If you just have the odd visitor then an Electronic Rodent Repeller can be effective, I use them in France following an infestation when I was in UK and they havn't solved the problem completely but it is much reduced and worth a try.
They vary in price from a few pounds to mid-teens and cost peanuts to run.

[MWG14]

Five or six years back we had found mice in our airing cupboard. Never knew to this day how they got in. We bought a humane trap which we baited with peanut butter. Over the course of a few days, we caught seven mice.

I took them a mile or so down the road and let them loose in some long grass. Never saw them again but felt better that they relocated somewhere safe and were still alive.

I recommend humane traps.

[tiggerblue10]

The electric rodent repeller sounds good.

I really don't want to kill anything. I tried to rescue many a mouse from the jaws of death when Tigger used to bring them in.

[Tilly2]

Search Amazon for WNKDG Humane Mouse Trap Live Catch and Release Rodent Trap Cage.

We have one of these. They work brilliantly and are reusable.

[Ken4155]

Get someone in to replace your squirting boards with well-fitted skirting boards. :-)