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Recently we had a mouse decide he would like to live in our house. Being nice people, we decided to try a humane mouse trap – and unbelievably it actually worked!

We used the The Mice Cube (Click Here) and were pretty happy with it.

Here’s a picture of our scared and trapped but not dead mouse:

The mouse is kind of cute for being a rodent, don’t you think? The lighting is terrible since we wanted to hurry up and get him out of that box, but this picture is proof that the humane mouse trap really works.

We have never had a mouse in this house before (though in older, draftier houses I have!) and so when we spotted him hanging out in the basement I knew we had to get rid of him before he found his way into the kitchen. The thought of finding a dead mouse and having to dispose of it was almost worse than the thought of him moving in as new tenant. And with little kids, the thought of setting up traps to kill the mouse didn’t seem like a very safe option, since kids like to get into everything!

And so began our quest for the humane mouse trap. We started looking at local garden supply stores. They had smaller live catch traps, but they had spring loaded doors and I was afraid the kids would still figure out a way to somehow get hurt on them. Nobody else really sold anything that was what we were looking for – when we told people we wanted a humane mouse trap they thought we were crazy. We even stopped at Pet Smart thinking maybe they would have something in case your pet mouse escaped and you needed to catch it. They are not as animal friendly as you’d think, especially since they sell pet mice – the sales clerk told us to just kill it. Can you believe that?

Naturally, Amazon sells everything you could possibly need, and not surprisingly we found one humane mouse trap that looked promising: The Mice Cube.

It’s a teeny tiny little box (much smaller than I expected it to be!) and basically once the mouse pushes its way into the box it cannot get out until you open the door for it. The trick supposedly (it worked for us at least) is to spread a little peanut butter on the door and wipe it off to get the mouse interested in going inside where you leave a little snack for it.

So, we ordered our humane mouse trap with expedited shipping (I wanted this mouse gone fast!) and as soon as it arrived, stuck in our basement with a snack for the mouse to eat inside. It took another day before we finally saw any progress, but sure enough I went down to our basement and could see/hear the box rattling! We caught our mouse!

It was so nice because we did not have to touch the mouse at all – my hubby released him outside where he belongs. When he was done we washed the mouse trap out with water and bleach to disinfect it.

I don’t anticipate or hope that we will ever need to use our humane mouse trap again, but it is from now on the only way I will ever try to get rid of a mouse in my house. Everybody should start using these humane mouse traps! And ideally, but it before you need it so you don’t have to wait two days for it to be shipped to your house!

Click here for the humane mouse trap I recommend!

Have you used a humane mouse trap before? Share you thoughts in the comments below!