Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

bugslet

Take them a long, lon ,long way from your home before releasing them.

torbrex

Take them to the nearest beach for a holiday

Xeorix

bugslet wrote: »

Take them a long, lon ,long way from your home before releasing them.

How far is a long long way in mouse miles?

RuthnJasper

Either keep them as pets (I did with the one I caught, in a massive old fish tank filled with plenty of sawdust for burrowing and hiding places. I called him Vincent.) or release them together into an hedgerow somewhere (but at a distance, as the lovely Bugslet suggests).

Best wishes - and good on you for not killing them outright. x

Mojisola

So you're going take them away from their home territory and dump them somewhere unknown and think you're being kind to them?

Are they house mice? If so, how well are they going to survive outside? They'll either starve, get eaten by predators or find their way into someone else's house.

mary4kids

Take them to petsathome. They do adopting and rehoming. I would run a mile if it was me though ha ha :rotfl:

pondskater_2

Mojisola wrote: »

So you're going take them away from their home territory and dump them somewhere unknown and think you're being kind to them?

Are they house mice? If so, how well are they going to survive outside? They'll either starve, get eaten by predators or find their way into someone else's house.

Well if I was the mouse in question, I would rather take my chances than get squished in a spring trap

Xeorix

I'm pretty sure these are field mouse as their tails are quite long, probably 7cm or so - almost as big as the mice themselves.

I'll wait until its dark and take them to the fields near the local golf course. They're currently in a box under the stairs with some water, food and a cardboard box to hide in.

Shall have to go and wash out the traps and reset them, nodoubt there are more of them about. Need to figure out how they've got in, although the previous owners large clematis looks suspect!

esuhl

Wow! What a cute mouse! No way I could dispatch one of those after seeing it. (Although there's no way I'd want one loose in the house either!)

According to the pictures on the site below, it does look like a house mouse, though. I don't know how it would manage on a golf course...

http://fyeahmice.tumblr.com/species

SailorSam

Do a stir-fry with them.