kill or non-kill trap for a mouse?

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I like their faces.

Then again, cows and lambs are cute, too, but those are killed in the name of everyone on this site who eats meat (and put through discomfort for everyone who consumes products like milk). The sprouts that grow into my corn are also cute, and part of a natural order far bigger than cuteness or consciousness. Those die, too.

For a few months of every year, my cats bring mice in. Luckily for the mice, most are still alive. Sometimes I have to shake the cats upside down for them to drop one out of their mouths.

If it scurries off, I put on a rubber glove and try and get it into a cardboard box and then release it in the grass outside somewhere on the opposite side of the house where the cats don't go as much.

I rescue the butterflies and moths they bring in as well. I even go as far to save little insects that I accidentally get wet in the bathroom.

No kill and release them near people you don't like.

That's what I do.

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They are certainly not all rabid but our area has the highest rate of rabies carriers in the US as far as the info from the SPCA.

You may be right. I am just saying what the workers at the SPCA told me.

I have never been able to post any images on this site or embed any videos. I know other people can do it so maybe it's just me.

Black snakes, as in the breed Black Snake, are wonderful. They are great mousers and very friendly and loving and affectionate snakes as well as being non venomous. We had some at our summer camp and used to hold them and play with them. One of them actually got injured once and came to us for help.

Yeah, one of the mice I had was brought in by my cats and I helped her escape behind the kitchen where she lived for a couple month.
The other mouse I don't know how she got in.
I also rescue insects they bring in, as long as they are in a state they still can be rescued in.
I was now for a couple days with people who have a swimming pool and I rescued every insect I noticed that has fallen into the water (except when I could not reach it and then I was devastated).
I felt so hard with them seeing them struggeling against drowning.
There were little spiders, flying ants, some worm-like insects, little flies and little wasps which I really liked as they were still in a golden colour (they had no stripes yet).
So I grabbed them and let them dry in my hand in the sunshine.
While being on my hand they started to "unfold" themselves and to clean themselves.
Some were dead however.

However I do not understand this sentence.

think they are very cute to look at. I actually would not mind them if they used toilets and washed their hands and did not ravage the food pantry. You know that they also leave a urine trail everywhere they go. That is how they mark their paths and remember where they go and how to get back.

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aw The way to quickly and safely open a cat's mouth without hurting the cat or getting bitten is to put a thumb and another finger on each side of the mouth, at the corners of the cat's mouth, and squeeze gently. (hand is under the cat's chin) Mouth pops open easy peasy.

My female cat once caught a little sparrow in the spring time when the males are all flushed red with their spring mating plumage - his breast feathers & head were a lovely red. I don't mind her catching mice but I wasn't going to stand by while she tortured that pretty little songbird. She knew I was coming for her and didn't want to be caught plus she only had him by the wing and he was fluttering so she had a hard time so I caught her and popped her mouth open with that method and out came the wing - I was afraid his wing would be broken but he was able to fly away up into the nearest tree alright. I was glad as I remember my mother trying to rehabilitate birdies with broken wings when I was little that our cat had brought in and it never ended well

Mice are too cute to kill in my little world. Rats are a whole other thing. I loved Russell Hoban's "A Mouse and His Child," and "Mouse Tales" by Arnold Lobel, and read them to my kids until they were falling apart.

When I moved out here to Oregon I found I had mice when the cold weather came. I live in a cold old house and had to find all the mice holes and cover them up, but I still had mice. I got a no kill mouse trap, and after some practice I started catching them, and I let them outside in the bushes. But what was the real break through was discovering that they could get into my trash, and that was their goal. Once I sealed that up... they left.

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:) For anyone outside of the US, I mean the place where the sink/basin bath and shower are.

I know what you mean, I can get into the shower turn on the water then realise there's a small spider or midge I didn't notice. I rescue them too even if it means me dripping wet all over the floor to the window.

In my house mice do not last long! This is the time of year they will begin coming in again as the nights turn cooler. They may look cute but as others have said, they are disease carriers despite their constant grooming. If you care for your family at all, you will be well rid of them!! Hantavirus is airborne I believe but definitely can be transmitted by touch. And the little buggers are always pissing away whether on the move, still, eating, etc. And it basically ruins most anything it comes into contact with. It is highly corrosive, smelly, and destructive!

I don't like to cause any living thing pain and misery. But given that choice vs having me or my family sickened, the mouse LOSES! I will NOT use a glue trap. Seen too many that will actually chew their legs off and die a long and prolonged death. If you learn how to properly bait and set an old fashioned spring trap, they are quick and effective. I have failed only on rare occasions with these traps. But I will re-bait them and set them back in the same spot and usually overnight they will return for another feed. Most always I get the mouse, been a few years since I had a crafty one take off with the bait.

Releasing them back into the wild will just make them come back to your home or someone else's. They are in no way endangered and while I will say they can be cute, the wild variety are anything but. If you like them so well, get them as pets (domesticated, disease free ones). They have been bred in captivity for hundreds of thousands of generations and make good pets. Just don't feed and befriend the wild variety. I love nature, but NOT when it invades my home!

Oh, I guess I understand: In my bathroom at the bathtub the jointing motar or jointing grout has fallen out and there are some very tiny insects, less of the size of a millimeter and before I take a bath I check the tub as there are usually some of the less-of-a-millimeter-incests running around and it's a hell of a job getting them out because they refuse to understand first that going onto the piece of paper I offer them will saves their lifes from drawning, and sometimes it takes about a couple minutes to bring one of them into safety, but there are more.
But I do not get wet as I check before putting the water in,
in fact I prevent them from getting wet.