How to ged rid of mouse from flat not killing her?

Question

I'm absolutely scared when know that she's running around but I don't want to poison her or anything like that. ANy suggestions?

Answer 1

There are different kinds of live traps you can buy. They just trap the mouse in a box and then you take it outside and let it go. Ask at your local hardware store.

Answer 2

You can buy humane traps in most large DIY stores. Use Milky Way as a bait as its sticky and the mouse will have to go right into the trap to eat it. The door will close and the mouse will be safely caught. Put the trap along the skirting board in the room where the mouse is mostly seen, keeping the opening alongside the skirting and not facing into the room. Check it regularly - if the door is closed, the mouse should be inside. If you can face it, put it in a bag or box with airholes and drive about 5 miles from the house before releasing it - mice have a home range of up to 4 miles so you want to make sure the mouse doesnt come back. Put teabags around the suspected entrance hole to your house - mice dont like the smell of teabags or mothballs.

Answer 3

I've had great success with this live trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

It’s also available for $2 cheaper here (although I prefer to buy it from the other place since I’m not a big fan of PETA):

https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200

I've caught over a dozen mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

Some hardware stores and supermarkets also sell live traps, but in my opinion they are not as nice as the ones above (they are smaller, with fewer airholes).

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants. If you are a kind person, you might also leave a little birdseed or oatmeal for them, along with some shredded paper towel for bedding.

The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. It can take three to five days for them to die. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

I'm glad to hear that you don't want to poison the mouse. After all, she doesn't know she's not supposed to be in your house! If it's any comfort, most mice will quickly run away and hide if you move towards them. Good luck! Feel free to email me if you need any additional suggestions.

Answer 4

You can buy humane mouse traps. They are a long box with a one way door. Put chocolate in the trap they like it much more than cheese.
An old book I had from the library suggested an empty bucket with a lid.Cut a hole in the lid and balance a piece of chocolate on a thin piece of wood so that when the mouse walks out to get the chocolate, it overturns the wood and is stuck in the bucket. The cut lid becomes a shield to stop the mouse jumping out.

Answer 5

A failsafe, easy way to deter rats and mice from a building... Rodents hate the smell of peppermint! Go to your local health shop (or Boots / supermarket etc) and buy a small bottle of Essential Oil of Peppermint. Put a couple of drops of the oil on a piece of cotton wool, and place these balls around your flat, in areas where you think the mouse is getting in. (A classic spot is via the pipes behind the kitchen sink.) After a few weeks this should solve the problem!

Answer 6

Try befriending the mouse. People are afraid of things they do not understand. You do not understand the mouse. I think you could reach an understanding with the mouse, if you would give it some cheese. The mouse has different customs than you do, and you need to respect those customs. For example the mouse cleans it's self differently than you do, but that does not make it less clean. The mouse has a different family structure than you may be accustom to, but that does not make its sexual experiences any less wholesome then yours. Tolerate the mouse and welcome it into your home. Peace on Earth and good will to mice and men.

Answer 7

For home made live trap, go to:

http://www.smithsax.btinternet.co.uk/products.htm

BTW, I just caught two in snap traps over the last couple days, the only problem is they can spurt blood onto the floor, Poison is no good because the little rhodent may die between the walls and cause a stink for a few weeks.

Answer 8

I think you can buy special traps that catch the mouse, but dont kill it? They kind of drop and lock the mouse in. If you let it go, dont do it right outside otherwise it will simply come back in!

Take it some distance away and release it. Good luck

Answer 9

How do you know its a she? anyway you can buy a freindly mouse catcher from any pet shop around £3 to £4, put some cheese in , mouse goes in trap closes without hurting and you take the trap out doors open and set it free. be warned not to close to your home or it will return . good luck!

Answer 10

Close the possible openings of its entry to your flat, some times it comes from open patios, exhaust fan openings if without gravity louvres, windows if without fly screen, vertical exposed pipes and from toilet WC's if left dry.
There are some cages type traps available specially to catch mouses, if you don't want to kill it, than catch by metal trap and leave it free some where outside, away from your flat.