How effective are the rodent poison pellets in controlling mice?

[Looney]

I've been setting up dish after dish of this stuff, and they keep disappearing! So something must be eating them. I had expected to see dead mice around the dish, but apparently it takes awhile for it to work? And how many mice could i possibly have? I've put 3 huge dish of this stuff already.

 

[glen]

It is blood thinner, so it may take a while.

 

[Looney]

That's all it does?! I thought it was cyanide or something they used.

Well, i don't particularly like the idea that i have mice dying in between my walls where i can't clean them up. Think i'm going to get rid of the poison and start setting up traps again.

 

[Anubis]

rat poision works very well

 

[PatboyX]

well, it would probably kill them sooner than control them but we all have hope that it may be possible to control our own vermin-army.
dont let the dream die!

 

[bleeb]

I had one of those bait blocks from Home Depot. There was a little guy in our garage so I placed a few... a few days later, the sorry sonofab*tch was trying to crawl underneath one of the cars and went to mouse heaven there. Blood was stuck to the garage floor.

I've used the sticky traps before and they work WELL. We had a rat infestation at our other house and placed a few of these of their known entrances and we caught like 4-5 in once shot. Got the shovel and ... SPLAT. Anyways, we're big fans of the sticky traps because you know exactly where the carcus is.

 

[ReiAyanami]

i've tried the rat poison from the grocery that comes in the yellow cheese shaped wedge, the pellets are green.

they ate it for weeks and wouldn't die an would poop green mice crap in every room of the house. when summer came they moved out. it seemed to be like food to them, don't know if it killed a single mouse, they ate the whole box eventually and i didn't bother replacing it

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: bleeb
I had one of those bait blocks from Home Depot. There was a little guy in our garage so I placed a few... a few days later, the sorry sonofab*tch was trying to crawl underneath one of the cars and went to mouse heaven there. Blood was stuck to the garage floor.

I've used the sticky traps before and they work WELL. We had a rat infestation at our other house and placed a few of these of their known entrances and we caught like 4-5 in once shot. Got the shovel and ... SPLAT. Anyways, we're big fans of the sticky traps because you know exactly where the carcus is.

yep, sticky traps work best. fold them and place them along the wall. youll catch them. better that way then poison, because they can go die in the walls and stink it up.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
That's all it does?! I thought it was cyanide or something they used.

The amount they eat will cause them to bleed to death, but if you or a child eats it, it is basically harmless, only thinning the blood.
I say it is ingenious!

 

[DrPizza]

you'll smell dead, decaying mice in your walls soon...

 

[308nato]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
you'll smell dead, decaying mice in your walls soon...

heh. Poison is for barns, corn cribs, machine sheds, etc. Don't use that sh!t in your dwelling. They will die everywhere you can't get to them.

Traps are best for the house. The sticky traps work well but they don't have that satisfying "SNAP" of the real traps.