My dog has been going nuts for weeks and I finally believed him ,the electronic mouse repeller isnt working.
I did catch one of the mice and it seems quite happy in the (now disused gerbil tank)loves porridge oats and is quite happy with the bits and bobs we have put in ,
So has anyone any recipes for mice as ......ok im not gonna do that to tom oops im getting to like him/her.
Seriuosly though has anyone any experience of wild mice as pets if not any recipes (joking)
Will likely release it in next few days after next storm blows through up at the owl sanctuary where there are........
Ok im tempted to keep it till spring as it is small even for a mouse any tips ?
steel

Mice seem to eat just about everything! Any dry pet food is a good choice. Is that what you asked for? Surely not "mouse stew" or maybe? Eew!

I'd be worried about disease, and fleas and lice, especially as you have other animals.

How about Mouse-aka sprinkled with vermincelli?

I can tell you one thing NOT to do....
When I was about 12 I had a pet rat. I caught a mouse, and as I had only the one cage, I put it in with the rat. Bad idea for Speedy, the mouse. Did you know rats kill mice? Oh, the squeeking! Anyway, I suppose you could call the pet store and see what they feed the mice, but I think veronikka's right, and they will eat about anything.

Don't give it cheese, or you will have a very smelly mouse - seriously! Bit of cereal, bit of apple, perhaps a nut. Anything like that should be fine. You can domesticate them with work, if you want to.

Oh, and from "Associated Content":
""“Stuff the dormice with minced meat of whole dormice, pounded with pepper, pine kernels, asaphoetida, and liquamen. Sew up, place on a tile, put in the oven, or cook, stuffed, in a small oven.”" HTH

I cannot believe that I am reading this...this cruel post. 'Stuff it with pepper and kernals etc'. This merely torments the mouse. Let it know at least, what to expect.
Years ago, whilst dozing in a small trench, I was awoken by a scurrying and a hustling, (I know, sounds like a 'Blues' intro). It was early morning and, frankly, it scared the life outta me. SOoo, down came my rifle butt...and there was breakfast. Not a lot of blood in a mouse, so it's really quite easy to pick the flesh from its little ribs.
'Course, 'ad we been Americans, it would have been served with a sauce, Coke and very definitely chilled.

I don't know about recipes but if I caught a wild mouse, I'd probably use it for Legs food.

I've kept pet mice.. they've been bred for docility. I'd expect wild mice would be far more likely to bite and try to escape, not to mention the burden of parasites they're carrying.

We had an invasion of field mice on a kibbutz where I was volunteering and the scratching noises were driving my room-mate nuts so we got a humane trap and baited it with cheese. NOT interested. As a joke I put in a little piece of milk chocolate. We caught one within minutes! We sacrificed more chocolate and caught *four in a row* .. and yes they weren't the same ones, won't go into details but we were sure. I've asked around since and others have reported success with chocolate.

Well its now been freed and a new improved electronic mouse repeller installed.
Tried a few things for it to eat first it was very partial to porridge oats !

trojan11, your post reminds me of a story from my best mate. He was in a snowhole in Norway and woke up to find a lemming had eaten his rations. So he dispatched and ate the lemming.

The mice here are partial to peanut butter. Works like a dream in traps.

I have found that mice also like raisins.

ugh as much as I try to keep my house clean those little ^&*%$ keep coming in ... to keep cool in summer and warm in winter we think. They are more in the loungeroom than the kitchen strangely enough.

Glad you removed it - filty little things they are!

Do those electronic mouse repeller really work?

Yes, Copago, they do. But not the basic one tone effort. I forget the technical term but you need one, or two, that sends the sound waves along the electric wiring system in your home as well as the directional sound wave. Wherever they're hiding, under the floorboards etc, they soon get so uncomfortable that they leave.
We had a mouse problem, tried the basic plug type and the wretched things just kept out of its way. Went for the more upmarket type of plug in and we soon heard them scurrying around between the floorboards, etc and within 48 hours they were gone.

Sorry, Trojan, for not replying sooner but thanks for the info. I must look into it a tad more. There's often little people around the house so bait isn't ideal, plus they usually die where you can't reach 'em .. the mice that is and not the little people. And trapping can be a pain in the bum so the electronic thinamijigs could solve a few problems.