What is a decent method of catching mice without hurting them?

Question

Sometimes I hear a mouse prowling my room at night. How can I catch the little guy without causing any harm to him?

***that sticky paper is no good. Do you know what the mice do after they get caught in it? They try to chew through their own legs.

Answer 1

Sticky trap. Just a little square that has stuff like fly paper. Just take him outside, peel him off and throw him real quick.

Whatever you do, don't use your hands unless you're wearing really think gardening gloves or something. You don't want it to bite you because who knows what kind of germs, bacteria, or diseases it could have. Better safe than sorry.

Answer 2

There's the square tubes with the trap door. I've had some success, but the mice will chew away at the door over time, and they wear it to the point they can get out. I was able to catch and release about five or so for each tube, and I checked them each morning and evening. If you have the room and want to be inventive, you can build a live trap with a bucket. Get a bucket, deep enough so they can't jump out (dry, no water). Run a wire across the top with an empty thread spool, or any round item which spins easily, in the middle. Build a platform out from the side of the bucket to a couple inches or so from the spool. You can use one of the wires to brace the end. Coat the spool with peanut butter. They'll use the platform to get close enough to the spool, try jumping to get the bait, get spun around, and then drop into the bucket. Then just take the bucket out and empty the little varmit wherever. If there's a local farm or ranch supply store, or a livestock feed store, they usually have live traps also. Or order them on-line.

Answer 3

Hello, I had this same problem. I purchased some "live traps" from a hardware store or maybe Wal-mart carries them too. Anyway, make sure they are the ones with air holes in case your not around when you catch him. Some just catch the mouse alive but if your not around for a few hours the poor little guy will suffocate. The ones we bought are grey in color. They open from the front and a small latch on the side catches the lip open. you set them carefully on the ground with only the smallest dab of peanut butter or potato flakes inside. The mouse runs in and his body weight shifts the door shut behind him. If your not home when this happens, he has air holes at one end of the container to keep him trapped but alive. We caught 35 mice this way. My husband then (one by one, after they were caught) placed them inside a hampster container (carefully...the guys like to jump). We then drove out to our soybean field and let them all go. This may sound silly to some but, we don't like to kill anything. Especially with the inhumane traps they have today. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

there is a trap called the mouse cube or something like that. They have them at wal mart next to all the other traps...it is a clear plastic tube, you put the bait in there...and when the mouse walks in to get it....the door shuts on it...allowing you to let it out in your yard, so it will come back in, and you can trap him all over!

Answer 5

Purchase a live mousetrap, like a Havahart Model 1020 trap.

Answer 6

Peta website has some humane traps that let you release the mouse outside after you trap them in.

Answer 7

live traps. You can get them at a hardware store. You set the trap with food inside and when they go in it trips a wire and catches them without hurting them so you can let them go.

Answer 8

get a small mesh cat trap (vet might have some), put some mouse bait..i.e. cheese or bread crumbs, and let it sit for a day or two...if it works, you can release the little guy wherever :)

Answer 9

Put a piece of cheese in a box with a one way door, or a triger object so that once its inside it can't get out.

Answer 10

They make live traps but they are lots more x-pensive than the quintessential mouse traps (snap-traps).