You're really serious? I couldn't do that and it's not because of the money. It's the tail, too creepy. My outside cat will catch mice (we live with pastures & fields all around us) and I'll get the mouse from her and put it in a bucket. Then I wait for my husband to come home. It's up to him whether he kills it or lets it go - depends on how injured it is. But a mouse for a pet - like I said, couldn't do it.
Thanks for sharing - I feel better now that the heat's off of me.
Actually mice make decent pets, though the ones that start out wild can be hard to tame if you don't get them pretty young. I kept one for a long time as a pet for my neurologically disabled 20-something cat, who had to spend weekdays in NYC at my apartment (I live there M-F due to working there, but my real home is in the 'burbs). He was used to going outside whenever he wanted and watching birds and squirrels and stuff, so he was getting a bit depressed alone in the apartment all day. First I got him pet finches, which he loved (I still have their offspring), and then when I caught another mouse, I set it up in a little box on the floor, with a little upside down cat food can with a door cut in it as a hidey-place. My cat loved to watch the box, to see when the mouse would come out of the cat food can. The mouse entertained him; the irony entertained me.