I think they are cute, and I found a baby in our recycling bin a couple years ago, I picked it up and it sat in my hand (had been there a while, it was starving)....so I set it back in the bin, and brought it some bread/water, it ate/drank, and then I let it go outside.
They are very soft and fuzzy!
However, this past year we had a whole family and their cousins living in our attic, so we had to deal with them swiftly. Standard mouse trap caught us 12 mice. And no more. Its still set, but hasn't been tripped. We caught 2 in the garage too. So I think we cleared up the population around here for a while.
We had one drown in a bucket of water in our back yard before too.....
Grossest thing ever was when I moved a cabinet in our basement that hadn't been moved in 6+ years and found a mouse skeleton + fur on the floor under it! EW! It'd been there a LONG time though....no actual mouse left, just fur and bones.
We live right on some woods so our mouse/animal experiences are more than plentiful. We've trapped 2 skunks and 4 raccoons and relocated them. Crazy. Every so often we have deer walk past the fence in back in the woods, and possums are a regular sight. And a woodchuck lives under our shed. And we have 3 nearly hand tamed squirrels that we feed daily. + about 400 birds that rely on us for their meals.
