There's a mouse trapped in my window well

[tridim]

My cat has it pegged, she's been watching it for hours. If I slide open the window the mouse will be dead in seconds. The problem is, I need to open the window because it gets stuffy down here and I hate to voluntarily kill animals, even rodents.

I'm working on a simple, non-lethal trap, but there's no guarantee it'll work. Any ideas how I can catch the sucker without killing it?

[WillParkinson]

1. Try this...

Put some cloth over the area that will be opened, leaving only enough room for the mouse to get out in the corner. Put a box in the corner so it will be his only (assumed) exit.

And thank you for not hurting it.

[JewelDigger]

2. I once got a mouse out of a sewer by

wrapping some clothesline around an old hockey stick (any old piece of longer wood will do). This essentially made some 'stairs' for the little mousey. I put it down there at a 'good' angle for him. And he did climb out all by himself.

If it's possible for you to do something like this from the outside of the window well, you won't have to worry about him getting loose in your house.

Good luck and 'good on ya' for helping the lil guy!

[alphafemale]

3. This sounds good. Meese's are pretty bright.

The brightest of us all according to one of my favorite late-great authors.

[MuseRider]

4. Yes, suggestion

2 will work. A board will do the trick. On the farm I put a board in buckets of water that are out so if one gets in (they do and I never know how)they can get out.

[tridim]

5. I think he climbed out by himself

The cat is still watching, but she seems all depressed now. :) Thanks for the tips, I'm sure they'll come in handy as it gets colder and the mice start looking for shelter. I've never seen any mice inside, but I've only been here during warm months. If they do get inside, my cat will be the first to know. She's an expert mouser, she killed at least a dozen at my last place.

[dreissig]

6. Cats' Moral Sensibilities

Cats don't think about the pain they inflict on mice, but they like to offer their trophies as gifts to the house. The mouse would be pretty beaten up but the cat acted very proud, as if to say, "Look what I brought in!"

We'd have family parties and the cat would go down the cellar to retrieve a water bug. You could see the legs wiggling as the cat held it in its teeth!

[corarose]

7. I knick named Ramona "Trap" one time

She could break a mouses neck in a second. We would try to rescue it and she would snap their necks immediately. We found a stash a dead mouse bodies piled up under the bed one time and we didn't even know that we had mice.
Ramona had them piled up on top of each other and she had caught a bunch of them. We started to smell something horrible and we that that she was taking food under the bed and low and behold we found dead mouse bodies. It was like a morgue for mice and she had caught them at all ages.

I love hamsters and it made me sick. Take your cat and put it in another room when you try to rescue the poor mouse.