In Arkansas, where there are many mice, we used to put everything in glass jars or tins. We also used a metal catch and release trap, but we had to take the mouse far away or it would come back.
Because of intermittent mousey intruders - ah, life in the country - things get put into glass or heavy plastic as a matter of course. We only discover which occasional items we’ve forgotten to put away securely when something like this happens...
As for taking trapped mice far away, after a Little Nipper does its business the inside of something that likes dead mice is usually far enough.
We have a wide selection of garbage disposals around here, from buzzards, hoodies and magpies through to whatever turns on the back PIR late at night - which may be a fox, badger, stoat...
Or something I don’t need to know about, since the hill beyond the house is supposed to be haunted by...
Well, by whatever haunts the hill, I suppose. None of the neighbours have been especially forthcoming, even after 20+ years, and we’ve stopped asking.
