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Originally Posted by Kathy2
I live right beside a huge wooded area, which is where the mice come from. So unless they have been breeding in my house for generations, I really don't think they would have trouble surviving outside. There's no "urban area" around here for them to live - other than under my sink. So please don't tell me I'm killing animals.
If someone has recently discovered a mouse in their house, it must not have been there long. Which means it must have lived outside at one point. Which means it will probably be able to live out there again.
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While it's certainly possible for mice and other rodents to come inside randomly, most houses in urban areas (which is what we're talking about by the way) already have rodents living in them (especially mice). I've already stated this in my previous posts. Most people don't notice them because they tend to live in the outside portion of walls and in basements and they tend to make nests inside and live/forage outside. The reason that mice are in virtually every home is that mice can squeeze themselves through cracks or holes that are the width of a nickel. There's almost nothing we can do to stop them.
You very well may be an exception, but for the average person, removing an animal from the urban environment it's used to and placing it in a different territory is likely to kill it. There's a reason why I can be fined over $100 000 every time I catch and remove animals for my job... I need to make sure they're kept inside their territory.