Is mouse poison a scam ?

Big Gerry

I've put a load of mouse poison down in my kitchen.

The mice keep eating it but I still have a mouse problem.

I think mouse posion is a scam because I have never heard of anyone dying from accidentally eating it.

If it really did kill it probably wouldn't be legal to sell it to the public.

blade1

Big Gerry wrote: »

I've put a load of mouse poison down in my kitchen.

The mice keep eating it but I still have a mouse problem.

I think mouse posion is a scam because I have never heard of anyone dying from accidentally eating it.

If it really did kill it probably wouldn't be legal to sell it to the public.

Use a trap.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

If poison is past it's use by date is it more or less poisonous?

JJayoo

How would you accidentally eat poision?

Big Gerry

JJayoo wrote: »

How would you accidentally eat poision?

A toddler could pick it up.

whisky_galore

They build resistance to it. You might as well be feeding them regular food.

Allinall

After years of scientific research and complex laboratory tests, it’s been established that there may be more than one mouse.

BrianJD

Don’t fall for the whole buying mouse poison trick........it’s a trap

opentarget

Use a trap. Bit of ham on a few traps will sort it out. Unfortunately you have to confront your inner killer seeing the corps of a cute mouse. But while it might seem cruel I'd imagine a quick death from a trap is a lot less cruel than a slow death from chemicals.

MMXX

Just move your kitchen into your sitting room, your sitting room into your garage, and put the garage into what used to be your kitchen.

You. Are. Welcome!

blade1

Big Gerry wrote: »

A toddler could pick it up.

Then you'll catch yourself a toddler.
Handy if you want one.

Timberrrrrrrr

Big Gerry wrote: »

I've put a load of mouse poison down in my kitchen.

The mice keep eating it but I still have a mouse problem.

I think mouse posion is a scam because I have never heard of anyone dying from accidentally eating it.

If it really did kill it probably wouldn't be legal to sell it to the public.

Try some* and let us know how you get on.
























Do NOT eat mouse poison!





Disclaimer: If op eats mouse poison he does so by choice and not because I suggested it.


(That should keep me out of prison)

Big Gerry

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Try some* and let us know how you get on.
























Do NOT eat mouse poison!





Disclaimer: If op eats mouse poison he does so by choice and not because I suggested it.


(That should keep me out of prison)

If mouse poison really does kill.

How come we never hear of kids or babies etc dying from it ?

Your Face

Get a terrier.

Timberrrrrrrr

Big Gerry wrote: »

If mouse poison really does kill.

How come we never hear of kids or babies etc dying from it ?

Google it, quite a few child deaths from mouse/rat poison.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Big Gerry wrote: »

If mouse poison really does kill.

How come we never hear of kids or babies etc dying from it ?

They have become ill from ingesting it but they need to eat over 4 milligrams of the active ingredient per lb of body weight for a lethal dose.

skooterblue2

There is an ultra sonic device that humans, cats and dogs cannot hear and it costs 30 euro from the hardware shop and drives out mice.

MMXX

skooterblue2 wrote: »

There is an ultra sonic device that humans, cats and dogs cannot hear and it costs 30 euro from the hardware shop and drives out mice.

One of these bad boys?

Fr_Dougal

skooterblue2 wrote: »

There is an ultra sonic device that humans, cats and dogs cannot hear and it costs 30 euro from the hardware shop and drives out mice.

And it doesn’t work.

Keep putting down mouse poison, or put out some traps with peanut butter. Where you have one mouse you’ll have a dozen. If you have an attic make sure to bait that also.

skooterblue2

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

And it doesn’t work.

Keep putting down mouse poison, or put out some traps with peanut butter. Where you have one mouse you’ll have a dozen. If you have an attic make sure to bait that also.

The friend swears by them.

riclad

Put down traps a in the attic and near the corner of a room,
its possible they might be coming from another house, or building ,
they can come in through a tiny hole in a wall ceiling ,
they eat the poison ,they go off and die somewhere ,
i think using traps is better,
do you want a lot of dead mice inside your wall,s or under a floorboard?
if its too much for you hire a pest control company.
they will find out where the mice are coming from.
put traps in the attic ,check em every day.Its not a scam,
the dead mouse could be in the attic,or under a floorboard in any room.
traps are faster than poison,
but you have to empty the trap, put a small dab of peanut butter on each trap
wooden traps are no use.

or go to lenehans hardware store
https://www.lenehans.ie/pest-free-zone-quick-set-mouse-trap-triple-pack.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAvJXxBRCeARIsAMSkApp12DirtYDDO5JzRxQRzaXiBv_lpr80dJ9XGgXYXjgekTFpReXQUk4aArpNEALw_wcB

do not buy ANY wooden trap,s , it,s a waste of money.
wear gloves and empty the trap into a plastic bag.
wash your hands after setting traps, wear disposable gloves , when handling the trap,s .

they are too slow to watch mice.usually.
get the plastic trap,s ,there packs, 4 or 6 traps , for 5-6euro.
traps are small about 3inch long ,x2 inch wide.
look in household goods store ,s , tablot st dublin 1.
listen at night, can you hear mice running in the walls, or in the attic ?
if you have one mouse,you have 20, you cannot see.

mad m

First thing, try suss out how they are getting in. Block the access. Melt chocolate on trap.

Hot press is the M50 for mice.

Big Gerry

skooterblue2 wrote: »

There is an ultra sonic device that humans, cats and dogs cannot hear and it costs 30 euro from the hardware shop and drives out mice.

I have 4 of those anti mouse speaker things in my house they are useless.

Another scam product.

Big Gerry

Hassan Hissing Alcoholic wrote: »

They have become ill from ingesting it but they need to eat over 4 milligrams of the active ingredient per lb of body weight for a lethal dose.

I think blood pressure medication is mouse poison by another name.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Big Gerry wrote: »

I think blood pressure medication is mouse poison by another name.

You're thinking of the warfarin anticoagulant types. There are plenty of other.

Warfarin is to prevent blood clots, not for blood pressure.

TheValeyard

I thought the poison was ineffective now, because the feckers have copt on. They eat a small amount of it, leave, if it makes them sick, they leave it.... Or that could be rats.

Bio Mech

Hassan Hissing Alcoholic wrote: »

They have become ill from ingesting it but they need to eat over 4 milligrams of the active ingredient per lb of body weight for a lethal dose.

Stop with your facts will ya. There’s rantin’ to be done here.

Anything that can’t easily be understood can only be one thing: scam

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Bio Mech wrote: »

Stop with your facts will ya. There’s rantin’ to be done here.

Anything that can’t easily be understood can only be one thing: scam

And I don't understand the OP..….ergo....

biko

Could it be that someone told you it was poison, but it was in reality just cheese?

skooterblue2

Is there anything to be said for getting a cat?

Insect Overlord

Release the hounds cats.

IAMAMORON

BrianJD wrote: »

Don’t fall for the whole buying mouse poison trick........it’s a trap

and the winner is...

TheValeyard

biko wrote: »

Could it be that someone told you it was poison, but it was in reality just cheese?

This guy told him it was poison

TheValeyard

blade1 wrote: »

Use a trap.

No point.

riclad

Those devices are useless, once mice are in a house, they will stay there,
until you catch them, find out where they are coming in,
you will need to be ready to lift up carpets and floorboard,
go up in the attic with a torch.
they can come from next door,s attic or a tiny gap in a wall,
some walls have hollow spaces that go from house to house ,
like a pathway inside the internal wall,s .

tuxy

Rat poison causes internal bleeding and takes ages to kill.
It would take an extremely large amount to kill a human.

riclad

rat poison works, i think putting down traps is more effective,
poison takes over an hour to work,
i presume you dont want dead rats lying in random places in your walls or under a floor thats sealed .
i would not advise any human to try poison just to see if it works or not.
when you put down plastic traps they will work,
rats love peanut butter,
while they try to eat it ,the trap activates and kills them.
use a small dab of peanut butter about the size of a 5cent coin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNUrzmUEwI
good video here .
notice he does not use any wooden traps, .
smaller versions of the traps in the video,s are about 5-6 euro, for 4 trap set.
the large snap traps in the video cost around 8 euro for 1 .
put traps in the attic ,the kitchen ,under floorboards , near the corner of the walls,
small traps 2x 3 inch approx , work just as well as the larger expensive snap traps.

small traps similar to the ones in the image below are cheap to buy.
https://www.handyhardware.ie/Rentokil-Quick-Set-Mouse-Traps-Twin-Pack_p_55990.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAvJXxBRCeARIsAMSkApqAv5eTPJzZOdz2MT97wUFinN0Wh-fNHMETJlWHz_gR95WUQbxQz7YaAhSNEALw_wcB

plastic traps ,they are usually black.
sold in household goods stores , as well as hardware store s.

tuxy

There are different types as well. Which type is the OP using?

_Brian

Only an idiot puts down poison inside their house.
As the mice die they start to smell, ok due to their small body the smell doesn’t last long but it will be a stinky 12-14 days.

It’s possible they are removing and storing the poison.

Inside a property traps are best, bait with ham or Nutella.

riclad

https://www.pest-expert.com/mouse-poison-32-c.asp

i think traps are much faster and effective than any form of poison.
i dont think poison is good to use in a house, where people live,
its more suited to factorys or warehouse,s where the dead mice are easily located and they employ professional pest control experts

skooterblue2

riclad

traps are more effective in a house, where people live, you catch the mice,
refill the traps, every day, when all the traps are empty for 10 days you know the mice are gone.
you might catch 3 or 4 a Day,
every day for a while, if you put the traps in the right place.
buy at least 10 trap,s .put 2 or 3 in the attic

Thepillowman

Check out this guys videos https://youtu.be/wvWD-E-gbkk
Some very creative traps

branie2

I don't think so

BurnUp78

Stop killing mice ya evil bastids

bassy

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Better Than Christ

_Brian wrote: »

Only an idiot puts down poison inside their house.
As the mice die they start to smell, ok due to their small body the smell doesn’t last long but it will be a stinky 12-14 days.

I put poison down inside my house and I'm very intelligent actually. Furthermore, I don't know where they fucked off to die, but there was no smell anywhere in the house or attic.

If you have loads of mice, it can take a while to kill them all. Keep feeding them the poison and make sure you find and block wherever they entered the house.

Doctors room ghost

Big Gerry wrote: »

I have 4 of those anti mouse speaker things in my house they are useless.

Another scam product.

If they are a scam big Gerry why in the name of fcuk did you buy 4 of them?

Doctors room ghost

A plummer terrier is what you want op.they wouldn’t leave a mouse or a rat in the county.stone cold killers.
You should trap mice instead of using poison.its more humane and aswell as that you can dump dead mouse outside or cremate him in the fire from the trap. If you use poison they die in the house and get stink.

Graces7

Also poison can get into the food chain out there

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

A plummer terrier is what you want op.they wouldn’t leave a mouse or a rat in the county.stone cold killers.
You should trap mice instead of using poison.its more humane and aswell as that you can dump dead mouse outside or cremate him in the fire from the trap. If you use poison they die in the house and get stink.

Graces7

Once had a plague of mice when I was up in Orkney. My own fault; one was sitting on the printer totally unafraid so I picked him up by the tail and put him in the garden. He then brought all his friends in to visit..

I had 11, yes eleven cats, at the time, but as the electrician said when he was mending chewed pipes, they were in the wrong room

Mice everywhere; in the cooker, in the central heating boiler space... I blocked any entrance I could fine and left the cats on free rein

Traps everywhere, Lost count of corpses at over 20 oh and peanut butter is the best bait.
NEVER use the humane traps; the ****** learn how to reverse and tilt the trap back so the door opens again.

Sorted that but felt like a murderer. NB no poison as it can get into the food chain and damage wild life and we had rare voles/birds there.

Any house we have had mouse issues in since ( and I revel in remote places that have been long empty) the cats have sorted it. I will not let them kill but rescue and relocate. Exception is rats which they can kill as they please. Had huge rats here, which they cleared.

Was once a mouse who ran across my pillow; caught him and released him to the wild
The dog was furious.

Now the invading pine marten was a different matter altogether..