How do you make sure he bites the breadstick at just the right place?

Also...cutest mouse ever, I might let that one live with me (I think it's the fur on the tail).

Sorry, but if you have rodents in your residence, killing them humanely is the only way to go. They will just find their way back in if you do a "catch and release." Do you really want droppings in all your cupboards, and mice getting into your food? Even if you have your food in upper cabinets, it's no guarantee that they can't get into it.

How long until he suffocates? And how do you get the live mouse out of the glass?

We have three cats, one of whom will hunt and kill mice (the others just watch). Also, my dog is a fan of chasing and killing little animals.

In that first picture it looks an awful lot like a gerbil....

I am pretty sure a mouse could overturn a glass. We just used humane traps that you can buy in the store.

But honestly if you drop the mouse off in some place is doesnt know, it may just die anyway.

@ naturalgeekymom Yeah, that is definitely a gerbil.

If you really want to go the human route without purchasing a trap, the cardboard rolls from paper towels work really well... just rub a little peanut butter on one end, place it hanging over the counter (so half of it is off the actual counter) and place some sort of tall box underneath (tall enough the mouse couldn't escape). The weight of the mouse will cause the roll to fall in the box, and you can take him outside in the morning!

We have a cat. Even if she doesn't hunt mice, her presence is enough to keep them away.

Lowes/Home Depot sell no-kill traps if you want to go that route.

I appreciate the humane solution. Killing them simply leaves open space for more rodents to breed and invade the house. The only real solution is exclusion - sealing up holes. I love having cats but they can get parasites from eating mice.

I used to use no-kill traps and in the morning I'd release them into a half-full dumpster. I told myself they'd be overjoyed at all the food in there and stay a while. Now I have a cat who likes to bring his kill into my bed while I sleep. Sometimes cats aren't always the best solution...

I also thought that the mere presence of my cat would keep mice away...then I got mice. My cat was useless - he liked to play with them, but wouldn't finish them off. He did manage to frighten one to death by playing with it, but he brought another one upstairs and dropped it so I had that one living in my bedroom for a few weeks before I could catch it. I used covered snap traps baited with peanut butter until I could get someone out to inspect and seal up the house, and they worked great. When the trapping co. came out to do the exclusion work, they said that the mere scent or presence of a predator will do nothing to deter the mice - and sure enough, we discovered that one of their major hiding places was directly behind my cat's food and water bowls. It's been several months now since the exclusion work was done and after catching the last few stragglers my house and crawl space are thankfully mouse-free.

I have a cat that likes to hunt.
ps. such a cute little critter!

That trap is cute, but looks more novelty than anything :)

I have had great success with a no-kill trap called the Tomcat...a little peanut butter and voila! Fresh mouse in the morning. We then took the mouse across the river to the woods and he hasn't been seen around since! I wrote about it here, in case anyone's interested in the deets: http://folksyhome.com/2012/04/04/of-mice-and-men/

I've had cats as pets since I left home 25 years ago. Never had a live mouse in the house. (A few "gifts" of dead ones, and dead bats, and dead birds....but never anything live.)

I my last apartment I had a whole family of mice first using the woodwork of the roof as runways and staring at my neck (XD) and then one by one jumping down. I waited until they walked into the bathroom and then caught them with a towl and a huge glass and brought them outside. So cute! I just fear they might have died because some of them were still pretty young. :(
I sealed up all the holes in the roof afterwards and didn't have any mouse visitors after that.

I freak if I see a mouse so the only thing we do is set mousetraps, I jump on the counter, and my husband takes care of it. Luckily we haven't had any yet in this house. All my dry food is stored in airtight containers that will keep rodents out but the thought...ewww.

Get a cat.

*sigh* our cat brings us a dead vole or a mouse at least once a day. Often just the head. Last week we got the head set neatly next to the body. The innnards were coming out of the body.

I'm not sure having a cat is the best option if you have a mouse problem. In fact, we don't actually have a mouse problem. He goes out, hunts them down, brings them back.

I love our cat. I don't love his hunting habits. On the other hand, our other cat doesn't hunt. She prefers her catnip toys and doesn't quite know what do with a mouse

Try living in a mouse plague where no matter how clean or dirty you are, everyone has mice. Our terrier was great and killed many so we were only catching 30 a night. Our neighbours were catching more like 60 a night. According to the long-time locals, this wasn't a 'real' mouse plague - that there weren't that enough mice to be characterised a plague.
Every known trap type was used. The best were the ones that caught them live because you could keep catching them in the same trap all night. The ones that kill - once it's sprung, it is sprung and needs to be reset to catch more. Our neighbours swore by the wine bottle method - where you put a sock over a bottle to halfway with peanut butter at the other end and balanced on the edge of a bucket of water. The mouse runs along the sock part of the wine bottle, keeps going on the glass until it slips and falls into the bucket of water, where it drowns. I prefer to catch them live and drown them myself so I can make sure they at least die quickly, rather than swimming around and around.

If you check out the rest of the traps on his website, his "model" is most certainly a gerbil.

@funstraw You get a piece of card or metal and slide it under the glass then lift the two together with the mouse in the glass. Have you never caught a spider or other creature in a glass or takeaway container?

Yeah I live in a century home, haven't seen any mice. A newer build home we had, had mice. For like a week. And moles. We have three cats so it was like mousey suicide to come into our place... we had a ton of dead ones for the first week. I imagine the mouse convos went like this:
"Hey Fred went for a walk to grab food yesterday and isn't back"
"Yeah, Dave, Mark, and Sarah went last week to the bottom cupboard and haven't shown up either. Let's go check it out!"

Stupid mice.

@Faelix, you risk chopping off his legs, and would you ever drink out of that glass again? then where do you humanly release it? More problems than solutions.