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I used to have pet mice.
First, once they grow up wild, you cannot tame them.
Second, that mouse you have looks like it was a pet mouse or the baby of...either way it's probably wild now.
This means that it will run like the wind, jump from insane heights (to it's death possibly), bite you if you try to catch it.
Best "harm" free way to catch a mouse is to grab the very tip of it's tail (never do it to a pet mouse, you may pull the skin of it's tail, but wild? Whocares..) and then flush it down the toilet. (Yeah that works)
As long as you got the tip of it's tail it cannot reach your hand. Middle is ok too, but anywhere lower than that will probably get you a bite mark. (depends on the size of the mouse, if it's fat enough to look like a door knob you're safe holding it by the base)
The spring loaded traps SUCK. Yes they always kill the mouse, but more often then not they clamp their limbs instead of breaking the spine/neck. When this happens the mouse either dies slowly from the injury, chews it's own limb off, dies from starvation.
The traps that don't kill mice right away usualy work ok.
Having said all that, mice are surprisingly easy to kill, being small and all. Just throw something at it, even a tenis ball will probably knock it out or damge it's internal organs badly enough for you to be able to just dump it down the loo...
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