Bluetooth mouse...is there a way to assign it to a specific computer?

Hi, I have a MacBook and my husband has a new iMac that came with a bluetooth mouse. We traded mice (I had a USB one) and most of the time, our mice work fine. However, if my laptop is off while my husband's iMac is on, the bluetooth mouse finds the iMac (half a room a way) and wants to be controlled by it instead! So then when I turn on my laptop, I have a hassle of trying to get the mouse to connect with my laptop again and sometimes I have to get my husband to turn his iMac off before I can get it to work again.
So I'm wondering if there is some way that we can 'tell' the bluetooth mouse to only connect with my laptop, not the iMac?
Thanks.

Hello a:
Try having your husband go to system preferences>bluetooth and uncheck discoverable and on.
I do not have a similar configuration, but that should avoid the iMac "finding" the mouse. Now, if he is using a Bluetooth keyboard, that will not work……. If that is the case, uncheck discoverable and see if that addresses the issue.
Barry

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