Thank goodness you don't live next door to me!!! I don't think I would thank you for letting rodents out to live in my cupboards, wee in my food and eat the contents of my airing cupboard....
I had a gorgeous (and very expensive) Monsoon dress destroyed by mice this winter, not to mention all of the food they have contaminated and has has to be thrown out.
If they can't find someones house with easy pickings they will die; slowly and nastily. The "right" thing to do would be to kill them quickly.
THEY ARE NOT PETS, If you want a mouse - go to a pet shop.

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Tx