So we still have a mouse living in our kitchen. I managed to herd it into a humane trap once -- and then didn't move it far enough from the house -- so he's not falling for that again.
I've even mounted a motion-sensing camera on the kitchen ceiling -- I have cameras lying around (work-related) and already had a power-over-ethernet connection from a former ceiling mount wireless AP there -- so I have any amount of video of the critter darting around. We also occasionally spot it personally. It's ridiculous how cute it is.
By the time I work out how to trap it again we're going to be so fond of it that we're not going to want to consign it to the wilderness to be eaten by an owl. Trying to decide if a wild mouse would be happy as a pet in a comfortable and well-appointed terrarium.
Well, I caught him a few days ago. Had to do the same trick of herding him into a humane trap that he won't go into voluntarily.
Took him to an overgrown area near the Columbia river,; hopefully he'll find his way to some sort of survivable habitat. If nothing else there's a hotel nearby...
... hang on, there are some mysterious new charges on my credit card. Several of them mention cheese trays and room service.
@pieist good to know the latest!
@pieist We get small bush rats in our garden (coastal BC) in the summer so I safe-trap them and then DRIVE them at least a couple of kms away and release them. They'd need GPS to find us again.
@SonofaGeorge
Yeah, I'm less than a mile from the Columbia River, there's plenty of wild places for them to live. (And plenty of owls and raptors to eat them.) I took a few rats out there before I figured out how they were getting in.
He was getting up on a shelf in the dining room where I left a bag of birdseed. So I removed the bag, placed a trap there and scattered birdseed inside. He'd just nibble the bits he could reach without going in, and leave the rest.
But since I can get him to climb up there, I may try the "tippy ruler with bait scattered on it that causes him to fall in a bucket" trick. The question is will it be a bucket, or a fine new mouse home where he won't, as I say, get all ate up by owls.