How can i get rid of a mice in my room and don't ask me to kill it?

Question

I have a fear of mice and i don't want to touch it, either. Is there a way i can trap it without feeding it poison? If i catch it, i just want to let it loose outside.

Answer 1

They sell traps at Home Depot that don't harm the mice (trust me I love mice!) that you can release the mice into the wild.

Answer 2

Getting a cat is a good idea.
However, cat's don't actually kill mice.
If a cat catches a mouse it will let it go for a few seconds then catch it again, play with the mouse like a toy. This rarely hurts the mouse much and once the cat lets go of the mouse, the mouse sometimes pauses on some goes, playing dead. Once the cat lets the mouse go and this happens, you get a brick and drop it hard on top of the mouse, as the mouse will die that way. Then health and safety say to get several bags and put your hand inside of the bags then scoop the mouse up with your hand which is inside the many bags, then you fold the bags over. Like picking up a dog poo. Then if you like you can place the bags in a bin liner and dispose of the rodent. Mice will always find a way to enter your house if they are around. Because there is food there. You shouldn't feel bad about killing a mouse, think about this:
You're lying on your bed falling to sleep peacfully when a little thing jumps on your blanket and bites you, then you have a mouse bit and need to get to a doctor to have it checked out. Mice can carry many diseases and infections. Which is why prevention is the best cure. Even if the bite gives you nothing, it still won't be very pleasent.
Which is why prevention is the best cure.
If you can't have a cat in your accomodation, then you might want to think about leaving rat poison outside and also do a very careful and slow search as to where the mice are getting in from. Then try and block the entry with cement or paint.

Also to feel safe, you could leave some mouse traps around. The best bet I believe is to block there entrance, if they are coming in from under the floor boards pour some bleach down and cracks. Once a mouse tried to push through our kitchen floorboard, creepy as hell. You could see it's eye and that was it. Sounds sick but we poured bleach down the hole in the floor board. You gotta do what you gotta do. After all your life is far more worthy than any rodent a person can make a big difference to the world, depending on what they do, a rodent can too but only by spreading infections.

If you can afford to buy a cat, or if not you could get a cat from a shelter or look at adverts. The cat food cost is like £4 a week or something, depending on what brands you buy. Most cat's don't like supermeat I think it's called, which is like mince meat, they seem to prefer the chunks of meat.

We haven't had any mice problems since we've had our cat.
The cat could scare the mice away by ragging the mice every time they come, which cats seem to enjoy. If you still have trouble with mice, then you could either think about the brick attack or mouse traps. Because you wouldn't be able to put poison down if you bought a cat.. Unless they have something that rodents are allergic too but not animals.. I dunno. Good luck

Answer 3

I live in a first floor flat, but have mice visit from time to time, they come up through the pipes. I put poison down, they eat it but seem to live forever. Then, for a couple of months there is no sign of them. Until recently, I only ever saw one, but now there is an adult and two young ones, I've seen them all together in the kitchen. Occasionally I manage to catch one and put it outside, I couldn't physically kill one even though I used poison. I am now considering pulling out all the cupboards in the kitchen and filling every little crevice with expanding foam. Hopefully this will stop them returning. I do believe, however, that it is possible to purchase a humane trap which won't kill the mice. Then it's just a matter of letting them loose in the wild somewhere. But judging by what some of my neighbours have said, and by the evidence of seeing three at once, there appears to be an alarming rise in the problem this year. My only suggestion would be the humane trap if you can find where they sell them.

Answer 4

Whatever you do, PLEASE, PLEASE do not use the glue traps. These things are barbaric. A trapped mouse can take days to die - or eat it's own legs off to try and escape.

The humane trap is best but make sure you check the traps every few hours to ensure any mice caught do not die from dehydration. Once caught, take the mouse at least a mile away from your house before releasing it. Try to release it in a woodland area where it will have a chace to find food and shelter.

You may need to make quite a few trips before all the mice have gone from your house.

Install an ultra-sonic device and make sure you also find out how the mice got in to your house so you can prevent them coming back again. Winter is coming, and like all the rest of us, the mice want to be somewhere cosy before the cold weather comes in.

Good luck. With a bit of time and patience you will get this sorted in a humane way.

Answer 5

There are no-kill traps available. You could probably get them at a hardware store. I'll be honest though, I think killing them is the most effective way to get rid of them. Plus, mice can reproduce in as little as a week after birth. If you don't kill them they're going to come back and probably with their offspring. I like animals too but mice carry disease and the life of a person is more important to me than the life of a mouse.

Answer 6

The spring traps that are designed to kill mice are pretty humane usually... I have seen them not work properly though and you end up with a mouse with a nasty head wound which then crawls off to die somewhere and stinks up the place. Poison is meant to be quite slow and painful so don't do that either.

If you put prop a milk bottle at 45 degrees, in such a way that the mouse can get to the neck and put some bait in the bottom of the bottle, the mouse should go into the bottle but won't be able to climb back out. You then stand in your garden and see how far you can throw the bottle... :)

Answer 7

Its very simple. Britain has invented a safe, humane, unwanted house guest's trap. You can buy a trap for a low price like to one i have linked below. What happens is you put a piece of cheese or other bait inside the trap and the mouse comes along and when the animal walks over the treadle to get the bait the door instantly closes. The one below is at a cheap price and has a clear plastic body so that you can see inside the box to see if the mouse has come yet. Be sure to check the trap regularly because if you don't the mouse could be inside and starving to death and you don't want that! So check often and when its in put it oustide away from a road!

Answer 8

My boss gets mice now and then - lives in the country and she buys a humane trap, but I think they find her house so comfortable they keep coming back. I suggested she tag them - that didn't go down to well.!! Quite sensible really - then she would know if the were permanent residents or just visiting. I couldn't kill or poison anything deliberately, and I am a hypocrite because I do eat meat, so I feel sorry for your dilemma - get the Council to do it before your house gets infested. These animals are not domesticated and carry lots of bacteria - and could be running all over you when you are in bed!!!! Only joking. Good luck, they should keep to their own homes.

Answer 9

They do sell "no-kill" animal traps, where eating the food will shut the door and the beast will be caged but unhurt. Then you can take it outside and let it loose.. but a mouse may decide it's warmer in your house and return. You could take it to a field a couple miles away to release it if you're so inclined. Not many people share your concern about the lives of mice, so I'm not sure how readily available they are in sizes suitable for rodents...however I'm certain someone has thought of this and produced them...try Ebay!

Answer 10

A lot of people have mentioned humane traps, which is far and away the best way to do it, but I would add a couple of things.

Firstly, bait it with peanut butter, hazelnuts or (and don't ask how we found this one!) Bounty bars. Secondly, when you do trap it, you need to release it half a mile away at the very least or it'll come back, and thirdly that their entry points are often smaller than you'd think: if you can get a pencil into a gap, a mouse can use it.

Good luck!

Answer 11

you can set a trap. A little cage where you put the cheese or peanut butter on bread at the far end of the cage, when the mouse enters the cage the door shuts and traps it in the cage. You can then let it loose out side. The farther away from your house the better. Or, you might get another visit. Better hope it doesn't have a family living in between your walls.