There is a mouse in our garage, now what?

We found a live black mouse 🐁 in our garage this morning. I watched a YouTube video on how to make a humane mouse trap that will catch it in a 5 gal 🪣 bucket with a trap door lid for the mouse to fall in the bucket. My trap worked but when I went to put the actual lid on it the mouse jumped 3 feet in the air and got away. We’re getting an actual humane live mouse trap the we ordered from Amazon tomorrow.
Here is the dilemma. I want to take it out in the desert and let nature take its course. Probably get eaten by a snake 🐍 but will live a while. My brother wants to put gasoline ⛽️ on it and catch it on fire 🔥 then shoot it with the AR 15 to put it out of its misery. He said he sinned against us by coming in our house, and the mouse needs to pay for the sin. .
I’m hoping that I can catch it before he gets home and I’ll let it go. There is a video camera in our garage that finds it and zooms in on it. I’ll have to be fast because my brother caN see what’s going on by watching it on his cellphone.
What should I do

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Ynotisay · M

Your brother has some serious issues man. That's not right.

I live in the mountains and mice are a part of it. They're neighbors just like every other animal. With a humane trap, which is all I use, you just need to bait it with a little peanut butter and keep an eye on it.

Once it's trapped you just need to move it away so it doesn't come back. Some say a couple of hundred yards and others think a mile or so. The desert isn't the best call. An open field will work. Those mice in your house have probably never lived outside. So yeah. It's not optimum for them but you don't want mouse shit in your house.

If there's one then there will more than likely be others. I usually get them in groups of three or four. What I do sometimes is put a trapped mouse in a big bucket and wait until I catch another. They're family and they may do better in nature with each other.

But tell your brother to slow his roll and understand his place. Killing animals is horseshit. You're doing the right thing. Good luck with it.

2brandon2 · 18-21, M

@Ynotisay I live in the desert. I figured I would walk down the road about a mile and let it go. My trap will catch up to 20 mice. Our camera in the garage is only actually picked up one mouse and a DEXA motion really well but I’ll give a little time there’s food and water in there.

Ynotisay · M

@2brandon2 Oh. Didn't know. Then yeah. That makes sense. And in case you're not feeling good about it, you're giving the animal a chance. Much better than the alternative. Wild mice don't usually have long lives. Usually it's around six months or so. They become food so something else can live. There's no feelings involved in that. It just is. Good luck.

2brandon2 · 18-21, M

@Ynotisay that’s what I’m saying the mouse should go down the road and become the circle of life 🐍

Ynotisay · M

@2brandon2 One dies so another can live. That's nature. 👍