Uncle Al wrote:
>> Karl Magdsick wrote:
> >
> > Now that winter has decended on new england, the mice are comming indoors.
> > It seems that I am never able to set the traps enough askew that the very
> > small mice I have set it off. I'm using the smallest victor traps made.
> > Hereing the mice in the walls at night sets my mind working. I don't want
> > to use poison because the mice crawl away and die in the walls after a few
> > days. They will rot and create quite a stink. I seem to remember hearing
> > that nicotine is fairly toxic. I assume death is by anurism or cardiac
> > arrest. How long does it take for an accute overdose of nicotine to kill?
> > I could look up the oral LD50 of nicotine in mice, but this gives me little
> > help in my situation. How can I estimate the dose requred give, say a 90%
> > mortality rate within 30 minutes?
>> [technical bloviation snip]
>> If you have a mouse problem and you don't want poisoned vermin dying in
> your walls, you don't use spring traps or chemicals, you get a ball
> bearing mouse trap. The things are fantastic! Silent, deadly,
> effective, no little bodies left lying about.
>> Ours is a Ruddy Abyssinian tom named Flash.
>> --
Is your "ball bearing mousetrap" an outdoor cat?
Well, I hate to say it, but a lot of those mice were probably brought IN
by your cat. They don't kill them immediately. They bring them back to
their territory before settling down to a 20 minute "play" session followed
by a crushing bite to the throat. Some of the mice escape in this course.
No bodies in the front yard, either? One three-year old (and slightly
psychotic) cat can turn ground under the hedges into a Khmer-Rouge style
killing field by August latest. Guess I'll take your word for it.
