Mice in my apartment! HELP ME

[simonandhallie]

oh Diana! I'm gonna grab my phone book and see if I can find a store that would sell it! I've been keeping them out of the kitchen with a baby gate and I've been catching them in the cabinets and under the stove so that would be great! Thank you so much!

[toninm]

YIKES! get traps...or call the exterminator

[Juliealfies mum]

You can get a plug in ultrasonic thing here that stops rodents entering your property go to home depot and ask , good luck

[StewiesMom]

Don't pay your rent! You don't have to!

[Toby'sMama]

Please, please, please -- do not use the poison! I also had a mouse problem, and after trying the electronic ones and the traps, decided to get some Decon to put down when I was away for a week. As soon as I came home, I carefully picked up the half-empty boxes and set them up high. About a week later, I found one of the boxes empty, laying in my hallway. After checking on the internet to see what could happen if Toby had gotten into it, I called my Emergency Vet hospital, and they told me to bring him right in. After a shot to make him throw up, one to make him stop throwing up, activated charcoal, a shot of vitamin K, plus a 2 week prescription -- AND $270 later, we finally went home. Over the course of four weeks, that amount is now over $600. And believe me -- it wouldn't matter how much I paid to make sure he's okay. He just went to the vet on Saturday for another clotting test -- of which I should hear about today. My vet said that he could possibly be on the vitamin K for up to 3 months before it gets out of their system.

In the middle of all this -- I ran into a very nice lady at PetSmart. (She is one of the trainers) And she told me about a "pet friendly" rodent control bait. It's made out of corn products, and the mice/rats eat it, they get sleepy, and go to their nests where they go into a coma and die. It's called "Rode-trol". The box says this regarding how it works. "The rodent digestive tract has a unique water absorption system regulated by a complex mechanism. Rodetrol physically disrupts the water absorption mechanism and the rodent becomes lethargic, falls into a coma and then dies."

Even though it's "Pet Friendly", I would probably keep it away from Toby... but if he for some reason got into it -- it's not a poison that would stay in his body for up to three months and could kill him.

Sorry this is so long -- but I'd hate for anyone to go through what I just have. I still can't figure out how he got to it -- as I had put it up way too high for him to get to...

Oh... I just found a website for it. It says visit rodetrol.com for additional information and products.

[DianaB]

Originally Posted by simonandhallie

oh Diana! I'm gonna grab my phone book and see if I can find a store that would sell it! I've been keeping them out of the kitchen with a baby gate and I've been catching them in the cabinets and under the stove so that would be great! Thank you so much!

As I said, let me know if you can't find it. I'll send you some in the mail. I know that poison is very risky with little puppies around, but this stuff works. You could even put some in the back of your cupboards. There are places you can put this that you won't have to worry about it.

We used to live in an old farm house in the middle of a field and always had trouble with mice. I would dump a package in a cupboard that was next to my bathtub (there were openings to under the tub) and in a short while the mice would be gone. This poison is suppose to help them not to smell after they're dead too.

Keep me posted on what you find out--Diana