Baby mouse

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Sorry to go off-topic.

There's a baby mouse waddling around the room right now.
He is slow and stupid and I could easily pick him up with a cup and throw him outside.
If he is old enough to be wondering around like this, is he old enough to go out alone?
If I catch an adult with a have-a-heart trap (I wouldn't know one gender from another) and put them outside together, would it make any difference?

Just musing.

I think you should call social services...

Its mother, if it is a baby and has one, will come to collect it if you sit still enough and quiet enough for long enough that she forgets how you're there. Of course, then you will still have mice in your house. I try to discourage mine, as they get into the cutlery drawer.

I wish I knew something to help you, but I don't. I just wanted to say it makes me happy to see you so concerned about it's wellbeing. You're a sweetie.

I know what she is talking about. It's a really young mouse who is just leaving the nest. If you try to pick it up, most likely it will run from you. They are quicker than they look.

Yeah, just leave it alone. Couple weeks and it'll be old enough so you can live-trap it and put it outside.

Aw, I love mice! ...maybe it's because I had an imaginary mouse name Mousey.

Just putting it outside probably won't keep it outside more than ten minutes. Squirt food-colouring on its tail to prove to yourself that the next one in the live-trap is the same one, if you like.

Um, yeah, that's why you drive a couple miles and put it in the nearest patch of woods.

I do hope it's OK. (?)

I once found a mouse like that in a room in my house. It was wobbling around like it was drunk and it was much smaller than a normal mouse. I wondered "what's it's deal" and I tried to pick it up to see what was the matter with it.
Before I could, it came to it's senses and ran, disappearing behind furniture in the corner. It was much faster that time than it was when it was wobbling around drunk-like. Suddenly it was just like an unimpaired mouse, except smaller.
I guess it was just a baby just out of the nest, barely able to walk around yet. It learned quick when I tried to pick it up. Too funny!
Did your mouse run too?

I have my desk in the attic, and there must be a nest around here somewhere.

Well, I caught a second one. Both tiny.
They weren't quite so dumb after all. But the trap is functional.
I found one years ago who was dumb enough to run into my cup.

I have them in an old, gallon ice cream bucket.
I don't suppose momma will be dumb enough to come out while I'm sitting here.
Maybe tomorrow.

I suggest that if you don't want to kill them, you let them go again where they were and hope they find their way back to their mother. Use the trap again in a week or so, when they're bigger and might survive wherever you release them.

I just put out a poison block for them to gnaw on. They breed real fast and you'd be amazed how much mouse poop you will have to clean up if you don't get rid of them quickly. The charm wears off real quick.

did a cat drag it in?
is a hobby for both biscuit and goldie.

yes cute mouse,
they can and do spread disease.

leptospirosis in the urine.
faecal contamination. e. coli, klebsiella....usual bugs.
fleas.

they will usually contaminaye food when they crawl over it to eat/steal it.

get over the cuteness, see the diseas potential.

gestation 19-21 days, can become sexually mature within 4 -6 weeks. litter size average 4-6. you do the math.

1 year is a lot of meeces....a lot of disease.

kill now, save the cutesy stories. sorry for the bluntnees.