Yeah then it is someone else's problem...

Buy a cat! They catch the mice and (if you're lucky) eat them so there's nothing to clean up. If you're not lucky of course, they leave the carcasses on the floor where you can step on them in the middle of the night.

Glad I'm not the only one!

Disagree... Do you trap flies in your house and release them outside?

Yes because it would be so much more convenient if op caught it drove miles away wasting gas and time to release a single rat into the wild so that it would be someone else's problem eventually

I made a homemade trap with a garbage bin, a 2x4, peanut butter, thread, and an empty can. Caught the mouse in less than 2 hours. Walked down the street with it in a box, and let it go near the woods. Patched up the hole he had used to get into the house in the first place. Haven't had a problem again since. The entire process didn't take any more time or money than driving to the store, buying a trap, setting it, waiting for the mouse, cleaning the trap, and then disposing of the remains. Anyone could do what I did and I can GUARANTEE you won't miss the 20 minutes of your life you spent getting a mouse out of your house, so I'm not sure what the argument against being humane is here (unless you're a diagnosed sociopath, then I suppose you have a valid excuse).

I'll keep that in mind. You know what next time I see an ant pile next to my sidewalk I'll lure them out one by one put them in a box and release them down the road. Even the next time I see a brown recluse or a black widow I'll catch them put them in a box and release them down the road because that's the humane thing to do. Hell if there's an aggressive feral dog I'll catch it put it in a box and release it down the road. Because everything deserves to be treated humanely!!

To be perfectly fair, mice can carry hantavirus which they excrete into their droppings which can become aerosolized when they dry and you try to sweep them up. In other words: the mouse tried to kill OP first.

'whatever I say is right, whatever you say is wrong' Right and wrong do not exist in this world, human. These are constructs of society. Oh yes, and I kill mice at leisure.

You know you can be humane toward animals AND people...