Where to release a mouse

[Red17]

I get on with the neighbours so it's gone to the allotment wildlife field. Probably got as good a chance of survival there as in the neighbours garden given the number of cats around here.

 

[grldtnr]

I'd agree with that, we once tried to catch a mouse in a friends garage. I ended up stamping on the poor thing trying to stop it running away, that was 30+ years ago and I still remember it. The few times I've dealt with pests coming into the house now I use snap traps and have always found them dead in them.

 

[grldtnr]

Once caught a rodent in a snap trap, but it hadn't killed it out right, trapped by a leg, it had dragged the trap away from where I placed it, remarkable!
So placed at the back door released it and promptly decapitated it with a shovel.
Right thing to do obviously in pain, ended it's misery.
No compassion, just thought 'right so, it's the end for you , ye Bassa !

 

[steveindenmark]

Do you have homing pigeons?

I could start a new sport 😄

 

[Specialeyes]

Released this little guy into the bushes on the green opposide our house (15 yards away if that ) and haven't seen him again.

There, I've tempted fate now...

 

[presta]

You need to release the mouse when the file's over the folder you want it in.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I would agree with the quoted guidance that releasing them anywhere strange, or near cats, or owls, is probably introducing them to a more painful death than a snap trap. Cats would most definately fling them about for half an hour before deciding to eat them or play with them some more. It is a shame to get rid of them, but it's either that or they potentially do loads of damage to your house.

 

[stephec]

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Released this little guy into the bushes on the green opposide our house (15 yards away if that ) and haven't seen him again.

There, I've tempted fate now...

Just because you've not seen it...........

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Only time I have had to do this I release it in some woodland across a river

I also put some bits of veg near where I released it so it would have something to eat without having to forage ina strange area

 

[Accy cyclist]

Release it at a local cattery, it will be humane, but doubt the cats' view on that!

I wouldn't recommend doing that. Cats like to toy with, some might say torture caught rodents and birds, then either kill them or let them live, albeit badly injured and severely traumatised. This is why lots of folk wouldn't own a cat. Some see 'presents' offered to their owners as nature's way, while others see it as unnecessary cruelty. I'd go with the latter.

 

[postman]

That mouse in Green Mile led some life.