For info with HTH:

http://www.eco-pestcontrol.com/docs/trap_xcl_humanelive.shtml

http://www.smithsax.btinternet.co.uk/

http://www.gardensalive.com/item_display.asp?PN=1536&sid=19172&EID=GGA65

Sheenah

Yes - there is a mouse hotel kind of thing.  It walks in, it gets flipped
into the main compartment and then it resets up for the next one.  My
neighbour used one, drove out of town to let the mouse free, it decided to
cross the highway, and got hit by a truck.  In Canada, you can get the traps
at Co-Op.

Susan M
Otis and Chester

Cali says to send it over. She promises to be humane. But she's been known
to lie! :)

Hi Karen,

I highly recommend the TOM CAT brand of humane mouse traps.  We had good
luck with them and you can buy them in places like Ace Hardware, Home
Depot, and most probably your local hardware store.  We had mice in our
crawl space once.  These traps were easy to use and we never had a dead
mouse.  It is important to get a trap that is easy to open to let the
mouse go without getting too close to the mouse and these were easiest
on me. Peanut butter was the best bait, we found.  When the mice are in
the trap they'll often urinate and poop and it is important to clean the
trap well after letting the captive go so any other mice don't small the
old urine and avoid the trap.  I actually used birdola bird feeder
cleaner on the trap (also available at hardware stores) because it both
kills order causing germs and had a deodorizer.  It worked and I felt we
got more captives after using that vs. soap and water.

Hopes this help.  I am with your Mom on poisoning them.  Steve went
along with the catch and release program I instituted but he'd started
rolling his eyes at me when I insisted that each mouse we let go in the
forest get a "dowry" of a handful of sunflower seeds to start their new
life off right.  :-)

Sometimes you can get humane traps from your local animal shelter or city
or town animal control division.

I am afraid I had no luck at all the one time I used a humane mousetrap.
This was pre-cats, and I was living in an apartment with a no-pets lease.
When I spotted the mouse, the landlady offered me a trap rather than have
me bring in a cat. It was about the size and shape of a shoebox, but made
of metal, and the basic idea was that the mouse would be lured into it,
and then the door would snap shut behind it. Only the mouse wasn't lured
into it. That mouse never did get caught. I knew it was around; I'd see
droppings. But it would never go into the trap.

I strongly recommend cats as anti-mouse workers. They don't always catch
the mice; I think their presence in the house scares mice off. When I
moved into my current home, the previous tenants warned me about the mouse
problem (pretty typical of older houses like mine). They had little trays
of poison all over the place, which I got rid of. In over ten years, I
have seen only two mice (cornered by the cats). No droppings, no scurrying
across the floor, nothing. To go from practically infested to none for
years, then a couple, without the cats actually catching any must mean
that smart mice don't stay around where there are cats.