Well, the wild mouse may be very scared of you, and try to escape from any place you keep it, so while you are preparing a home, put it in a very high container. I have seen a wild mouse jump right out of a container about forty centermetres high. They are very good jumpers. Buy a mouse cage, or a large aquarium (mice cages are best) and fill it with bedding (can be bought from most pet shops) don't use cedar shavings or scented varieties, because they can cause respiratory problems. Buy some toys and equipment, get a running wheel, food bowl, water container, igloo, mouse house, food, and get a toilet roll if you have any in the recycling bin. But about an inch of bedding in the bottom of the cage. If the cage has more then one floor, make sure that they are solid, if not put some newspaper over them. Get the mouse house and put it on the top floor, fill it with ripped or shredded paper. Then take the food bowl and fill it about half way with mouse food and attach the water bottle, make sure it is full of fresh clean water. If there are three floors, the middle should be a food floor, if not put the food on the bottom floor. Add the excersize wheel and toilet roll. Then get a small strong container with a lid that won't come off!

Go back to the large container and try to coax the mouse into the small container. It will run from you and try and jump, so don't let it climb up your arm, because it will use it to jump out of the container. When it get into the small container, close the lid and transport it to the cage. Put in the container and half close the door of the cage, quickly open the container and then slam down the door. The mouse will try it's best to get out for a long time. Stay around the cage every now and then so it gets used to you. In a few weeks it may start to get a bit less scared of you, but you would have to be very lucky to be able to hold and pet it. Wild mice aren't pet mice, pet mice are bred differently to bring out the tameness. For five to seven dollars you can go down to your local pet shop and buy a mouse (or two because mice are social creatures, females are best) Then you know you will have a mouse that within a few days will want to play with you, not bite you, and be happy about where it lives. Also, the wild mouse you have caught, you don't know how old it is. It could be nearly at the end of it's life. If you buy a lively new pet mouse, you know it will live with you for it's full lifespan. Also, if the wild mouse is female it is likely to be pregnant, and you may soon have a lot of wild mice, that pet shops won't take, because they're wild. I have seen both pet mice and wild mice, I have two pet mice and they are great. They happily play with me and each other, they run on the wheel together and come to meet me through the cage if I come into the room where they live. I have also caught a wild mouse, and it was terrified, it ran around like a mad thing, tried to bite and scratchme and went beserk, managing to make an amazing jump out of the container and running to freedom. It saved me from freeing it myself, but keeping one as a pet would be very challenging work. The wild mouse is likely to have a family, if it is female and older then a few months, and there is a male around where you caught it, it is extremely likely to have a young litter of mice that will die without it, and probably have another litter on the way. You are perfectly intitled to your own opinion, but I'd like to give you a tip, pet mice are so worth it.

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