I recently moved into a new apartment, and a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse. Nothing like the rat in this picture, though - it was tiny, and simply scurried across the floor. I haven’t seen it since.
I picked up some humane traps. But some part of me is like, “It’s probably in here because it’s cold as fuck outside. Do I really want to dump it out in the frozen woods somewhere?”
I mean, it is what it is, it’s a wild animal and surely has ways to adapt. But if I manage to catch it I’m somewhat tempted to take it to a vet and get a cage and just… let it stay inside, warm, fed, but unable to climb into my trash. (Which makes me hope it’s a male mouse, because compassionate as I am, I’m not looking to deal with mouse-babies.)
I recently moved into a new apartment, and a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse. Nothing like the rat in this picture, though - it was tiny, and simply scurried across the floor. I haven’t seen it since.
I picked up some humane traps. But some part of me is like, “It’s probably in here because it’s cold as fuck outside. Do I really want to dump it out in the frozen woods somewhere?”
I mean, it is what it is, it’s a wild animal and surely has ways to adapt. But if I manage to catch it I’m somewhat tempted to take it to a vet and get a cage and just… let it stay inside, warm, fed, but unable to climb into my trash. (Which makes me hope it’s a male mouse, because compassionate as I am, I’m not looking to deal with mouse-babies.)
Rats are great pets. Mice are not. Too many diseases they carry that will mess up your whole life.
It is a concern, which is why a vet visit would be the first thing to do. I bet it’d be expensive though…
Even a vet might not catch every disease that a wild animal might carry.