How To Properly Use Mouse Poison

I found a little mouse in my flat this morning. So I stomped him. I was hoping this was a one time thing, but then a few hours later I saw another peaking out from under the couch.

I live in a garden studio flat (you know half above / half below ground). I have lived here for 14 years and never had a mouse in my flat before.

So I went to the store but they were out of rat/mouse poison but they had mouse traps 2/$1.00 so I bought that and baited them with peanut butter. Somehow I don’t think the two are it. :slight_smile:

If I can see another so fast, I must have them coming in some how or they took up residence in my flat. I have never noticed any mouse droppings before and I don’t keep any food in the house except for the fridge.

They are cute buggers but I want them dead. Mr mouse bought it when he stepped into my flat.

Tommorw I’ll go to Target and get some mouse poison but was wondering if there was any kind of trick to it. Do I just put the bait out? Do I have to put it in a tray or do I have to to mix it with anything else.

No point saying to use something humane 'cause if I could’ve got at him I’d have whacked the bugger still in my flat with a shoe. He just ran across the room into the closet. He’s hiding between the boxes…Hmmmm

I’ll use a snap trap and get a mouse in the first 30 minutes. Reset it and the next one’s gone real quick. The traps work well.

Poison bait should be used where the mice are but not in the open. Behind the refrigerator or such places works. I hate poison because the mice die anywhere, and often anywhere is in a wall or ceiling. You will choke on the smell for a couple weeks until they finish decaying.

Good point, I never thought of that. I have just about finished given my flat a thorough go through so far I only saw one more. I found one under the couch and I think I saw him under the chair. So it might be two or the first one was quick.

Get a cat. Don’t feed it until you quit seeing mice.

The thing about mice is that they are quite prolific. The general rule is that if you see one, there are 20. You have seen 2 and have and infestation. At the end of summer they come inside to find a place to winter. Now is the time to stop them…

I like the ‘Just one bite’ brand of poison. It seems to work better than De Con. Comes in little pouches and you put it around the outside of the building and behind the cabinets. They eat it and go outside looking for water and then die once they drink. Glue traps also work but they don’t kill them. So if you are emotionally strong enough to catch them in the glue trap and dispose of them while they are still struggling to get out, good for you.

We have an old house and a good cat. She will usually deposit the mouse in the middle of the living room floor. She has been known to be so proud of the catch that she has brought a live one right into our bed, fun night!

Do as you see fit, but you have a lot more than a couple mice.

I guess I won’t be sleeping tonight or ever :slight_smile:

I never heard of this brand so I looked it up…

The sites says:

That just cracks me up, they have a WHOLE department for just rat and mouse poison. LOL

Well my flat is very small so I expect if there are more they are gonna be visiting the other 40 flats in my building too.

I’ll never forget. One died in the ceiling of the closet with the furnace. I had to use electric heaters in November for a couple weeks. Every time the furnace ran it sucked rotting mouse smell into the whole house.

I had a library patron call today asking for a news story from microfilm. I asked her what the story was, and she said it was a police blotter note about her brother. “He robbed a gas station with a mousetrap.”

It took me several seconds before I could professionally ask, “May I ask… how?”

Wish I hadn’t asked - he had it in his pocket pretending he had a gun. I was picturing something a lot more Wile E. Coyote.

Well, I do have a few ideas.

Re: the OP, if anyone in your building has pets don’t use poison. It always seems to get the wrong victim. Use traps. You also have to figure out how they’re getting in and
plug it up. Use steel wool in any holes you find before patching them.

Well unfortuantely I live in a garden (AKA basement) flat so there are too many ways they could be getting in. For all I know they could’ve gotten in by squeezing under the front door. I don’t think I could ever patch all the holes up. As you can imagine my flat is a real winner. Actually it looks just like Ralph Kramden’s apartment without the bedroom. It’s about that size. Except where Ralph has a bedroom, I have a walk in closet with a bathroom in it.

Tomorrow I will clean out the boxes in the closet and see if they are hiding. My greatest fear is there is a nest of them in there and when I move the box there will be 20 of them waiting with their mouse eyes looking at me.

So far four traps set and it looks like the mouse, went to bed.

I take my mouse poison orally.
Another vote for mousetraps. Glue traps aren’t fun for anybody. I had a boyfriend a couple years back who had mice in his apartment, and he made the mistake of trying glue traps because they were “humane.” Not so much–imagine a frightened mouse, squealing and breaking its own bones as it struggles to get away.

This is too much. I bought the mouse traps but the mice are so light they sit on the trap and eat the peanut butter but don’t trigger it.

I went out and got glue traps, and the worked. If I placed them carefully I could watch the mouse come out and then scare it. If I was lucky the mouse jumps away and onto the glue trap.

So far I caught 4 and one is still out there. Errrr…

I tell you if I had a regular full time job, I would just pack up and move, this looks like it’s only gonna get worse…

<Sigh>:(

After awhile your peanut butter baited trap will remain unsprung, mission accomplished. Works for rats too, use bigger spring traps.The city garbagemen just took away a dead possum my dog caught / killed 3 nights ago, man that thing was getting ripe, and I had it 50 feet away from house.

My dog-Jeb, kills squirrels, possums, at least once a year, and I wash the blood off him.

Well it’s been 48 hours with no more mice <cross fingers> I caught 12 in total and there was a very small hole I found in the wall behind the couch. I am HOPING that that is where they came from. I filled it with steel wool and caucked it up.

I wound up using glue traps as they took longer to work but they were easier as you coud kind of bait the mouse and figure out how we was gonna run then place the glue trap in his path.

None of the mouse traps were ever sprung.

<Knock Wood> That is it. I will have to spend the weekend looking around for more holes though. :slight_smile: