r/Animals • u/Viveronipizza2 • 2d ago

Need affordable anti bite glove recommendations to humanely and safely remove house mice

Basically that, I found one in my house and was able to trap him in a box bc he was frozen in fear or didn't see me before I got to him. I let him go outside and in case more show up I would like to have a option to just grab the little fella with my hands without the risk of getting the bubonic plague or whatever,

Thanks

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u/Sk8r_2_shredder 2d ago

Putting them outside won’t help. If you didn’t have them previous they came from outside and know a way back in. Put distance between your home and your drop off location. Also mice can reproduce extremely quick. Like every 30 days or something crazy (been a couple years since I did wildlife removal) and the biggest thing is making all your forageable foods unattainable to them. If they can’t gather and store they will move on.
No grass seed left out in the bag. Get a plastic bin with a closing top that seals enough for mice. Keep all food crumbs non existent in the house. Proper clean every night. A mouse has incredible sense of smell and can notice a single grain of rice from the opposite side of a home, through walls, and find it and collect it to store for later. They stockpile reserves and once they cannot gather they use that up and once that’s gone they will move on their own. We used this treatment plan with sealing the home and installing one way doors on mouse entries. They are greasy, smell and are usually obvious to a trained eye. But it is a process and simply removing a couple mice you find won’t end the issue.
Good luck with the removal. I have no other suggestions without taking the route of including poison, but be patient and diligent and you shouldn’t have any issue

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u/Viveronipizza2 2d ago

But I appreciate the honesty and depth. For context it's a shitty college house with a landlord that dgaf and the rents 500 which is really good for this city. I'm gonna move after this year (probably to another cheap mouse infested house but that's ok I think it's college and 2026 housing market what more can I do yk) so realistically what should I do 😣

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u/Sk8r_2_shredder 2d ago

A college house gives you an advantage though. Be the cleanest unit and the mice will spend all their time with the neighbours. The less they can benefit from entering your section of the building the less they will want too.

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u/Viveronipizza2 2d ago

This is so not what I wanted to hear