Is mouse poison a scam ?

IAMAMORON · 20-01-2020 10:18PM

BrianJD wrote: »

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

and the winner is...

TheValeyard · 20-01-2020 10:20PM

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 · 20-01-2020 10:21PM

blade1 wrote: »

Use a trap.

No point.

riclad · 20-01-2020 10:22PM

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 · 20-01-2020 10:24PM

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

riclad · 20-01-2020 10:39PM

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 · 20-01-2020 10:43PM

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

_Brian · 20-01-2020 10:49PM

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 · 20-01-2020 10:50PM

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 · 20-01-2020 10:52PM

riclad · 20-01-2020 10:56PM

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 · 21-01-2020 12:45AM

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

branie2 · 21-01-2020 01:05AM

I don't think so

BurnUp78 · 21-01-2020 01:07AM

Stop killing mice ya evil bastids

bassy · 21-01-2020 01:09AM

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Better Than Christ · 21-01-2020 01:24AM

_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 · 21-01-2020 01:55AM

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 · 21-01-2020 01:58AM

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 · 21-01-2020 05:59AM

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 · 21-01-2020 06:10AM

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..

Feisar · 21-01-2020 06:53AM

Mice carry Weils disease, people often think it’s just rats.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! · 21-01-2020 07:06AM

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.

Exactly...

I mean come on, if it was really that potent, you would have thousands of people snorting it up their nose on a saturday night out to get a great buzz!

Clearly a scam!

pavb2 · 21-01-2020 03:16PM

Me and the wife moved from the city to the country about thirty years ago and probably having seen two mice ever were shocked when we were plagued with them at harvest time especially as at the time we had two young kids. Trying to take a humane approach I did loads of research on the web about sonic alarms etc in the attic.

Eventually I popped down the local hardware shop where the guy behind the counter dismissed the electronic solutions and extolled the virtues and ethics of humane traps. The type where the trap tilts and the door closes behind the mouse. I was sold and about about half a dozen.

Just as I was leaving I asked him how far I needed to release the mice from the house to prevent them coming back in. I had actually thought of putting them in the car and releasing them about a mile away. He looked a bit puzzled and he said 'Release them you don't want to do that (Harry Enfield voice) . . . they'll come back in . . . the best thing to do is just drown them in a bucket of water.'

I ended up getting a cat.

Graces7 · 21-01-2020 03:20PM

lol... I bought one of those humane traps. Dratted mouse went in fine, then when he had eaten the bait. went back and tilted the trap back and opened the door... Mice are not stooopid

pavb2 wrote: »

Me and the wife moved from the city to the country about thirty years ago and probably having seen two mice ever were shocked when we were plagued with them at harvest time especially as at the time we had two young kids. Trying to take a humane approach I did loads of research on the web about sonic alarms etc in the attic.

Eventually I popped down the local hardware shop where the guy behind the counter dismissed the electronic solutions and extolled the virtues and ethics of humane traps. The type where the trap tilts and the door closes behind the mouse. I was sold and about about half a dozen.

Just as I was leaving I asked him how far I needed to release the mice from the house to prevent them coming back in. I had actually thought of putting them in the car and releasing them about a mile away. He looked a bit puzzled and he said 'Release them you don't want to do that (Harry Enfield voice) . . . they'll come back in . . . the best thing to do is just drown them in a bucket of water.'

I ended up getting a cat.

Huawei Gallagher · 21-01-2020 03:38PM

Using poison inside not a good idea, just means you will have mouse corpses under your kitchen presses.

Place traps along skirting boards. I baited trap with onion houmous and philadelphia cheese garlic & herb (good and smelly to attract them). Use something you can smear as bait. Had one mouse, put down a trap-left the room-Stuart Little was RIP within 10 seconds!

These traps work well, easy to set.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3EN76O_Gl8 Bit dearer but some of those cheap wooden traps can let the mouse get away.

topper75 · 21-01-2020 03:50PM

riclad wrote: »

.. putting down traps is more effective,
... put down plastic traps they will work,
rats love peanut butter,
... small dab of peanut butter about the size of a 5cent coin

I got good results initially with peanut butter in a black plastic trap near a hole in floorboards, but now there is a straggler(s?) still keeping me awake at night. I honestly think the bastards learn from the fate of their colleagues and get wise.

riclad · 21-01-2020 04:44PM

You have to put traps all over the house, under floorboard,s ,in the attic,
the cheap plastic snap traps work fine.
wear plastic gloves when touching a trap, and setting it,
or putting in bait, peanut butter is the best bait.
they try to eat it ,the trap goe,s off .
the cheap plastic traps work fine.they are sold in packs of 4 or 6 traps, cost 5-8 euro for 6.they are as good as the traps sold for 8 euro,s each.
place traps in a corner , or inside a floorboard.
try and find where they are coming in.they breed very fast.
if you see one mouse,there,s another 10-20 you do not see .its easy to lift up a floor board ,use a srewdriver flat,or a wood chisel.
google how to catch mice uk.
look on youtube mouse traps etc
mice are dangerous ,they carry infections ,that can harm adults and children.
wash your hands , after setting the trap, use disposable plastic gloves .
mice can come into your house from another house or building.
Its worse if you are in a row of terraced house,s as they can easily pass through from one house to another ,
through gaps in wall,s ,attic,s etc

you should have 7-10 traps all over the house ,in the attic, kitchen, etc
they can travel through the inside of a wall, under floor boards .

weldoninhio · 21-01-2020 05:03PM

opentarget wrote: »

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.

Mice love chocolate. So a bit of chocolate on the trap will get them. Also better to see the corpse and get rid of it, than have to deal with the stench.

riclad · 21-01-2020 05:24PM

It,s better to catch the mice in traps, its more humane than using a poison,
and you wont have dead mice underneath your floors to deal with.

cuculainn · 21-01-2020 06:17PM

biko wrote: »

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

i recycled an old empty bucket that held storm ratpoision baid blocks.
I used it to measure out chicken pellets.
after a bit of gardening i left some chicken pellets in it, put the lid on and forgot about it.

Fast forward 6 months and my mother rings me to say she is plagued with mice and she is putting down poison to beat the band, but its not working.

i go down at the weekend and see the recycled bucket of storm left in the porch and only a few chicken pellets left in it.

She had been feeding the mice for about 3 weeks with chicken pellets!!

Is mouse poison a scam ?

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