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Is mouse poison a scam ?

  • 20-01-2020 08:18PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    How would you accidentally eat poision?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    JJayoo wrote: »
    How would you accidentally eat poision?

    A toddler could pick it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,887 ✭✭✭Allinall


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭BrianJD


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Big Gerry wrote: »
    A toddler could pick it up.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,294 ✭✭✭✭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)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    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 ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Get a terrier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,294 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭MMXX


    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?

    Pied-Piper-Mom.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,051 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,779 ✭✭✭✭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.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Is there anything to be said for getting a cat?


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Release the hounds cats.


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