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AlbieQuirky posted:Don't you rent? One of the great things about renting is having a landlord or super to do these things. I've never bothered with this. I find that putting a bit of poison in the wall cavities myself far outweighs the inconvenience of having to call the landlord and tidy everything up in preparation for his visit. I do sort-of unofficially do all of the pest-control where I work, which lets me steal industrial quantities of anticoagulants. Having a greatly reduced sense of smell also helps, because decomposing rodents in the loft space smell terrible (or so I'm told). Seriously, find where the mice or rats are moving, and leave some poison there. Make sure they have no other sources of food, and that your pets can't get at it. Check the poison regularly to see if the mice are taking it, and keep on checking it once the initial infestation has gone. If you keep your bait station stocked, you ensure that any future visitors have already signed their own death warrants by the time you notice them.
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P-Mack posted:Poison's not a great idea for residential use due to the risk of a dead mouse in the wall stinking up the joint. Get traps. If you're rich there are these kick rear end electrical ones that zap the mouse with a minimum of mess. Also be clean. Yeah. It probably sucks to have a proper sense of smell. For the electric ones, you really do need to be rich. Making a mouse ride the lightning uses up a whole heap of D cells.
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bongwizzard posted:But we were way beyond traps and had dumb/smart dogs so poison was hard to use effectively. That's why the best type of bait to use is the wax block variety. If you put it in a tamper-resistant bait station, the little bastards can't drag it all over the place for your pets to get to. If you do get an accidental poisoning, just be sure to take your pet to get some vitamin k injections. Standard rodenticides take a few days to take effect and are pretty easy to treat, unless you're some crazy redneck using strychnine or something similar. These are the kind of people who buy ultrasonic pest repellers. I've seen mice walk straight past one before. Soylent Yellow fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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Cheesus posted:I have nothing against mice on my 10 acres but within a 10-20 foot radius of the house, I aim for loving Mouschwitz with bait traps, inside and out. So long as you aren't eating it, rubbing it over your body, or bathing in it, you're fine. Just clean it up.
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. My assumption is that unless I'm kneeling and inhaling nose directly over it and/or licking at it, it's not a tremendous deal and just shopvac it up.