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So Mighty Mouse has been dining on Rentokil poison every night for a week now. Same routine, I fill the little pot at night, he eats it all up.


I have also put out traps but he seems to swerve them in favour of the yummy little poison pellets.


I'm beginning to think he is immune and I am in fact feeding him a nutritious supper!


I know at least one other flat in my building has had mice and got pest control in. I could also do that but I am sure they come in via holes that I cannot get to, such as behind a fixed wardrobe. I'm assuming that unless all of the flats have pest control then they will return.


In the meantime I'm wondering whether the poison just isn't getting him and he is invincible? Or does it take longer to work?

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It could be resistant to the poison. Mice in Europe started becoming warfarin resistant a few years ago. Whether that's already happening in London too, I don't know.


My most successful mouse trap position has been to put one inside a box, left in a corner for the mouse to explore.


That was good for the occasional visitor. When a whole family of them arrived, after a nearby business left a pile of broken furniture out for them to breed in for several months, I had to get a man in eventually. Traps everywhere, lots of wire wool - hoping that's the last I hear of the little buggers.

With the warm weather, they may have a nest and taking the pellets back as food for their young and not eating them themselves


I once had one who would sit and strip the outside of the blue pellet off and take the grains inside away... Until he played jack be nimble and jumped over a trap that caught him in mid flight ....


They are getting cunning and being trained in ninja techniques by the squirrels !

Traps are better and you know when you've got one.


The poison is more cruel.. They eat eat it for days and eventually die slowly under your floor boards

where they stink to high heaven for several weeks. They attract blue bottles who lay eggs and you get

dozens of the little B's. in your house.


DulwichFox

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Get a cat.

> We'll see how invincible he is.



Ah, but you have to get the right cat

Not all cats are mouse ninjas

However, the female tortoiseshell cat I found (in a bin) is lethal

Whereas my handsome male tabby is not often bothered

We have little mouse trouble since she arrived

Poison kills them slowly.. They also become partially paralised before they die and will sit in the open

in your kitchen unable to move. This means pets can easily catch them and get poisoned too.

Also Foxes can catch them and get poisoned..


Avoid poison.. Use traps. Dispose of them in 'Green bin' double bagged..


DulwichFox

Would much rather the traps work but this mouse is like the next generation, genetically modified super mouse! He out smarts me every time.


The scoffing of the poison seems to have slowed down......but I'm afraid of all this talk about immunity.


Maybe he's evolved so that the poison now responds in a different way......and some day soon the Incredible Hulk Mouse will emerge from a cupboard, six feet tall and angry.

binkylilyput Wrote:

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> Would much rather the traps work but this mouse is

> like the next generation, genetically modified

> super mouse! He out smarts me every time.

>

The scoffing of the poison seems to have slowed down......but I'm afraid of all this talk about immunity.

>

> Maybe he's evolved so that the poison now responds

> in a different way......and some day soon the

> Incredible Hulk Mouse will emerge from a cupboard,

> six feet tall and angry.


If you have 1 mouse there is bound to be more... all taking the bait.. somes might already be dead.

You will soon find out. You will smell them. Starts of as a strong 'sweet' that become stronger and more putrid.

The smell can last several weeks.. and then you get the Blue Bottles..


Better to lay several traps. I have caught more that one in a single night..

Mice are incontinent and pee contiuously on your worktops.. in your cupboards.. any exposed food..

and they poo a lot too. You cannot see the pee.


People and mice cannot along side each other..


Foxy




Foxy

DulwichFox trust me, I agree with you! I have no wish to peacefully co-exist with mice! I will keep persevering with the traps (of which I have multiple) but have had no success so far......hence my concern that said mouse/ mice are above average rodent intelligence!


As for the smell of rotting mouse etc, yes, I have experienced this in a previous house. Perhaps not as dramatic as you describe, and no blue bottles flies.


I don't care, as long as Mickey is no more

binkylilyput Wrote:

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> DulwichFox trust me, I agree with you! I have no

> wish to peacefully co-exist with mice! I will keep

> persevering with the traps (of which I have

> multiple) but have had no success so

> far......hence my concern that said mouse/ mice

> are above average rodent intelligence!

>

> As for the smell of rotting mouse etc, yes, I have

> experienced this in a previous house. Perhaps not

> as dramatic as you describe, and no blue bottles

> flies.

>

> I don't care, as long as Mickey is no more


I found one dead. wedged between hot central heating pipes.. That WAS bad..


Foxy

Azalea Wrote:

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> Have you tried peanut butter in the traps? I

> bought some traps on Amazon, they are plastic and

> reusable,with a hole for bait. Easy to dispose of

> mouse and reuse. Took a while but I have caught

> two so far.


I tried one of those and they are vicious.. It ripped the skin off the poor thing. Really upset me.

Will not use those again.. The wooden traps are quick and clean.


Foxy

The ones I bought did not rip the skin off the mouse.


-------------------------------------------------------

> Azalea Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Have you tried peanut butter in the traps? I

> > bought some traps on Amazon, they are plastic

> and

> > reusable,with a hole for bait. Easy to dispose

> of

> > mouse and reuse. Took a while but I have

> caught

> > two so far.

>

> I tried one of those and they are vicious.. It

> ripped the skin off the poor thing. Really upset

> me.

> Will not use those again.. The wooden traps are

> quick and clean.

>

> Foxy

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