This weekend I managed to corner and harmlessly trap a mouse that had been visiting our kitchen for a few weeks. Evidently living in the space between the floor and basement ceiling. Really rather an adorable little thing. I took it well away from the house and released it.
Thing is, I've repeatedly found myself hoping it's okay. I need to read up on the most benign way and place to release a mouse for when this happens agaain.
@pieist Had scores at my chalet in Bugey France. Used a humane trap and then drove them about a mile away to release into a field. But some began to look terribly familiar...so I spray painted the very end of the tail of one of them to see if he returned. Sure enough...
@harphat That sounds like an epic journey for a mouse. It must be worth it.
I live in a medium density old neighborhood in the western US. I have to assume if he doesn't end up back here it'll just be someone else's house, someone who might be less disposed to be humane. I'll go to a riparian area up by the Columbia river a mile or so from here next time.
@pieist Sounds like he's learning! Hopefully he's up for a nice little drive to the Columbia riverside in a while😆 . Good luck!
@harphat Well, mine appears to be back, none the worse for wear. Still assiduously avoiding the humane traps i've put out, and I've baited them with something I know he loves. Only caught the first time by sort of driving him into one, he'd avoided them for days before that.