Mousetrap

[annuin]

So I just caught a mouse in one of the traps our landlady gave us last week. These more humane traps (as humane as you can call a pad of glue which essentially resembles oversized flypaper) are nice, but the question of 'what the hell do I do with the mouse now?' arises. At least with the other traps you're usually just cleaning up the mess :/

I pried the mouse off the glue pad, it was stuck by it's 2 backlegs and tail. It's pretty unscathed, though got a bit of a hair trim when I was snipping the glue off to set it free, and it's probably got sticky paws, tail and butt. Poor little bugger was literally shitting itself while I was freeing it.

I now have a mouse sitting in a box next to the door. I'm unsure of what to do with it... obviously setting it free in the yard is out of the question, because he'll just move back into the house again.

Comments

[djbloodrose.livejournal.com]

are there any nearby fields?
You could always release it in a park or an empty lot somewhere where it can have a chance to survive or to feed another larger animal.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

There's a patch of relatively secluded vegetation near the postoffice, I think I might let him go there. There's no houses there, it's near an overpass. Should be okay.