Looking online, there’s some disagreement. Some places say you need to go to miles to prevent them from returning. Other places say if you go more than 100 yards they’ll probably die because they don’t know where to find food or shelter, so they suggest making sure the ways they got into your house are sealed up.
If it were me, I think it would depend more on the area you live in. In you’re in an urban environment, it doesn’t make sense to me to release them locally - your just be causing problems for someone else. In that case, is probably drive far enough that there were open spaces for them to live in. If you live where there’s lots of open spaces, I’d probably just go far enough where your house isn’t the most attractive place. From what I’m reading, they don’t tend to roam far from where they make their burrow if there’s food.
Looking online, there’s some disagreement. Some places say you need to go to miles to prevent them from returning. Other places say if you go more than 100 yards they’ll probably die because they don’t know where to find food or shelter, so they suggest making sure the ways they got into your house are sealed up.
If it were me, I think it would depend more on the area you live in. In you’re in an urban environment, it doesn’t make sense to me to release them locally - your just be causing problems for someone else. In that case, is probably drive far enough that there were open spaces for them to live in. If you live where there’s lots of open spaces, I’d probably just go far enough where your house isn’t the most attractive place. From what I’m reading, they don’t tend to roam far from where they make their burrow if there’s food.