I would prefer not to drive. I’ve been walking about a ¼ mile to release them. Is that far enough?
It might not be quite as futile, but this feels like asking how far you need to throw starfish into the ocean to stop them from washing back up on shore :P
Starfish are easy, you just wing’em like a ninja star.
With some duct tape and a little imagination you can do the same with mice
I like you. You should have a beer.
You’re just exporting your pest problem to someone else’s back yard.
Check the rules where you live. Where I live it’s illegal to move any trapped animal more than 1km without a permit.
Looking online, there’s some disagreement. Some places say you need to go to miles to prevent them from returning. Other places say if you go more than 100 yards they’ll probably die because they don’t know where to find food or shelter, so they suggest making sure the ways they got into your house are sealed up.
If it were me, I think it would depend more on the area you live in. In you’re in an urban environment, it doesn’t make sense to me to release them locally - your just be causing problems for someone else. In that case, is probably drive far enough that there were open spaces for them to live in. If you live where there’s lots of open spaces, I’d probably just go far enough where your house isn’t the most attractive place. From what I’m reading, they don’t tend to roam far from where they make their burrow if there’s food.
Not saying you would be down for this, but my grandpa used to cover the trap with a tarp, back his truck up to the trap, and put a flexible downpout pipe over his exhaust and ubder the tarp. Idle the truck for 5 minutes and the mice are all dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. I imagine it would still work with a car might just take longer. He’d then chuck the mice into the treeline to feed the local foxes and stuff. No chance of them coming back and giving to nature to bump up the local mice predator population
The city tilled over an abandoned field a few years ago and we had a literal plague of mice. For the next 6-8 months we had 3 or 4 foxes and a coyote make almost nightly passes. It’s surprising how quickly they catch on that there is free food in the area.
The last two years weve jad foxes having babys in the neighbors yard (fairly rural here) and since theyve moved in, all of the rabbits and squirrels have dissapeared.
They needed some rat terriers behind the till lol
Are they getting into a building or just being a nuisance outdoors? You’ll have better luck sealing up a building than you will convincing mice to stay away by choice.
At least 2 miles
