Mouse in the house

[Tala]

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There's a problem with that - - my brother's heart is set on keeping it - he's called it "mousie" and is feeding it bread as I type

...tell him that mice carry Rabies

 

[Chick_a_dee]

I would let the cat eat it. My housecat serves a purpose as well, being that we live in a very old farmhouse we always get mice in the winter and they are Accio's evening snack.

he even likes the dead ones, he'll batt them around for a bit like they're alive.

 

[Daisygirl]

"...tell him that mice carry Rabies"

We don't have that problem in NZ and he KNOWs that...we went to Greece when he was 5 so he's had quite an education on that...
Have already tried that they carry fleas, mites, worms and "bad germs"...no luck. Mabe 'Mousie' can make an epic escape via flying over the back fence...while said brother is checking his eyelids for holes.

Disposal via cat will mean big, obvious mess for him to discover in the morning...she doesn't know what to do after catching it, and big brother feline likes to play with his food - - blood, etc gets everywhere

 

[Ryan81986]

Well obviously you wouldn't tell him that you fed it to the chickens. Or if you really want a no-mess kill do this:

Put mouse in coffee can
Cut a + in the coffee can lid
Place exhaust pipe tip in said +
Run car
Throw away dead mouse


Don't release it because it will just come back very fast.

 

[firedove]

Fastest way to kill a mouse and arguably the most humane for one who cannot just bash it on the head (which is the fastest and most humane way) is to seal it in a container and put it in the freezer. It takes about a half hour for mouse to go from live to frozen solid and there is very little suffering involved. If you release the mouse and it doesn't die odds are that within just a few days it will be back in your house. Mice return to their home turf unless dumped a long way away, as in miles.

If you have the stomach for it though, a quick blow to the head with a hammer or the corner of a table is the way to go. That's how they kill the feeder mice at the pet stores I've worked at.

 

[Daisygirl]

Really good ideas...except mouse died of his own natural causes. Probably Stella's teeth or suffocation via bread...now to see what little brothers have to say...

 

[Countrywife]

I usually find the dead mice by my shoe collection at the back door. Which the husband finds hysterical, seeing as its HIS cat! If I catch them I give them to the 15 year old boy child, and I simply do not ask what he does with them.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

I once got a phone call from a mom of one of our patient's ( pediatric nurse at the time ) and she told me her little boy got bitten by a mouse he was trying to play with that had gotten stuck on one of those sticky traps. That was a first to me, but I gave her a few instructions, including wash it and make it bleed and apply triple antibiotic and bandage, but that I would confer with the doctor and call her back.......which the boss told me she didn't know what to do and that is why she gave the problem to me

. So I called poison control and asked them about the potential for rabies and they told me they weren't normally carriers......so at this point, I would say that if someone wants the mouse and they are possibly responsible enough to take on the responsibility, tell them to get an aquirium and some cedar shavings and go for it.

 

[Ryan81986]

Mice carry lots of nasty diseases, I personally wouldn't keep one I found in my house as a pet. Too much risk. If you want a pet mouse that bad then go to the pet store and pay a quarter for one.

 

[Flagman]

Just step on it with your foot. That is the quick way to kill a mouse.