Help, There Is a Mouse Living in My House!!!!?

shoot the mouse

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How can i catch a mouse? I have found the mouse and contained it to a room, but I just don't know how to grab?

I can tell you how to make a cool non lethal mouse trap - but I am not going to type it out if you do not respond to me pretty quick. Just edit something into the details. My brother Had some cabins in Colorado and showed me a cool trick. OK well I will say anyway. It's not that long, and maybe someone else will try it. . You need a plastic 5 gallon bucket, a metal coat hanger, some tasty bait, and a couple empty soda cans. Take a soda can, and carefully pull the tab off - even the center, leaving a hole. Also punch a hole in the center of the bottom of the can. Cut and straighten a piece of coat hanger just long enough to span the bucket. Drill two holes, opposite each other at the very top of the bucket. Put one end of the wire through one hole, thread the can on, then the other end across the bucket, so the can spins on the wire over the bucket. You will want to put the bucket in a place where the mouse can easily get to it, so you might need to put some kind of plank up to the rim of the bucket - he did not need to do that in the cabins because the mouse were crazy wild super mouse and besides the walls were logs and they could climb them. Now, get some tasty treat and balance it on the can, but not too precariously. Do not use cheese - a mouse will eat cheese, they will eat darn near anything, but it's not what they prefer. Use bacon or peanut butter. Mice will easily jump 6 inches to get a tasty piece of bacon, and when they land on the can, it will spin and they will fall in the bucket. If you only did not want to touch the mouse, but did not have a problem killing it, simply put about 4-5 inches of water in the bucket. The mouse can only swim for about 1 minute......

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How To Socialize my Pet Mouse?

I kept mice for years, and in my experience I found the best way to socialise a mouse was to hold it often. After allowing it a day or two to settle into its cage, I would start by picking it up every day. I remember trying exactly what you described with the same results! So I would just pick the mouse up and sit it on my hand, letting it explore. Normally they are too nervous to eat treats from your hand at this stage, even though they are sitting in it. But be patient, because it will come. After a few weeks of picking the mouse up every day and just sitting it on the palm of my hand, it will get used to it. It will know what you feel like, what you smell like, and that you do not harm it in anyway. It will probably have reached the stage when it runs up and down your arm, exploring. I then introduce food and by this stage most mice will be ready to eat it out of the palm of your hand - whether it be from within their cage or while sitting in your hand. Eventually they will become so used to you, you can do a lot more with them. I used to have an apron with lots of tiny pockets in the front and I would wear this, with my mice in various pockets, as I walked around the house. They get used to the movement and they are already used to you, so they will climb from pocket to pocket quite happily, enjoying time outside of their cage. I will never forget one of my mice, Jamie, who became so tame that I could put my hand into the cage, without any food on it, and he would climb on to it so I could take him out and let him explore something else - whether this be the grass outside, a wooden maze, an old dollshouse or my desk. Goodness me, talking about all this is making me want to get mice again!