I am sure that it is quite adorable, but if you take away its freedom and put it in a cage, it will hate you forever. Instead, be a slob and leave food out for it. Let the mouse consider you "My Human" rather than you seeing the mouse as "My Mouse".
If the mouse isn't already acclimated to the weather outside, releasing might not be a humane plan. I'm not sure if you recall the animal rights people a few years ago breaking into a bunch of labs in winter and letting the critters go. Damn near every animal that wasn't found by a researcher died a rather painful hypothermia death.
Also, it's not the mouse poo that's all that gross. It's the urine. Nasty stuff.
You could try transferring the mouse to a basement or storage room that's not often used. But there's a fairly likely chance that he'll find his way back into your domicile.
Caging it will make it nuts and would be inhumane (inmousie?). There aren't any pets in your house, so it COULD stay. But, there is at times a child around and there's also you and it could be diseased. So, sorry, I really don't know what to do (and sorry about the typing tonight..... I severely burned my right ring finger and it's wrapped in enough gauze to keep me from actually moving it which is resulting in horrible typos, but at least i got certified in first aid and didn't have to come up with the ER co-pay!).
And the only reason I'd kill the mouse is because I'm horribly allergic to small furry rodents and it'd probably almost kill me first.
I was using the restroom at Matt's old house once and a little mouse scurried by. Even though I thought it was cute, I squealed..but not with girlie fear...
i would go for catching it and keeping it atleast til it's warm out. they eat things, they eat everything, they eat my car, it's bad news! normally i'd say feed it to my snake but i've been adviced that wild mice could have eaten bad things that would be not so good for the snake. snake still says gimme.
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Also, it's not the mouse poo that's all that gross. It's the urine. Nasty stuff.
You could try transferring the mouse to a basement or storage room that's not often used. But there's a fairly likely chance that he'll find his way back into your domicile.
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Hum. I don't want to freeze Mousie like the nutty PETA (or whoever) freaks, but...
Is there any way to housetrain a mouse?
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Oh wait, that's what I'd do.
Caging it will make it nuts and would be inhumane (inmousie?). There aren't any pets in your house, so it COULD stay. But, there is at times a child around and there's also you and it could be diseased. So, sorry, I really don't know what to do (and sorry about the typing tonight..... I severely burned my right ring finger and it's wrapped in enough gauze to keep me from actually moving it which is resulting in horrible typos, but at least i got certified in first aid and didn't have to come up with the ER co-pay!).
And the only reason I'd kill the mouse is because I'm horribly allergic to small furry rodents and it'd probably almost kill me first.
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THen I named it Hester the House Mouse.
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