What precautions should I take when we have cats n kids and trying to kill mice with poison?

Answer 1

I would never use poison in a house with children and cats. Not only is it unsafe, poison causes the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. It can take three to five days for them to die.

I've had great success with this live trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

It’s also available for $2 cheaper here (although I prefer to buy it from the other place since I’m not a big fan of PETA):

https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200

I've caught over ten mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. It's completely safe around kids and pets. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants.

It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind. You will feel better and so will the mice! Good luck!

Answer 2

Use catch and release traps. Poison is NEVER safe around pets and children. Kids have an amazing talent for finding forbidden substances no matter how carefully you think you have hidden them. Also - mice killed with poison can be harmful to animals ( maybe your cats) that eat them. Poisoned mice also have a tendency to crawl into small places when they die - like the spaces between your walls or in the attic. Have you ever smelled a decomposing mouse trapped in a wall? I swear it is the worst smell in the world.Stick to live trapping please.

Answer 3

Don't use poison?? Hardware stores carry catch and release traps that harm nobody. Place some peanut butter in the trap and check them everyday. Release the mice at least 100 feet away from your home. The traps are reusable AND it's a great project for kids to release them and learn that all life has value. My 8 year old releases any mice we catch.

Oh..and the small traps cost $1.50 a piece.

Answer 4

Well, unless you can banish all from the poison area, you run the risk. but instead, why not buy a healthy humane trap ( the kind that catches mousie alive) for like ten bucks at walmart and remove mousie to a nearby field:there by ensuring no poisons ( cause if your cat eats a semi poisoned mouse you can poison her too) and ensuring your entry into heaven by letting little mousie live.....just a few blocks from your house is all. And the traps are washable and reusable.
You can also buy one at www.peta.org
we use em all the time1

Answer 5

the best precaution is not to use poison at all and find another alternative,i lost two cats in one day from putting down poison,i will NEVER do it again,it wasn't even a poisoned mouse they ate,they actually ate the poisoned green pellets i put down for the rodents,poisons are just not safe when you have kids and pets

Answer 6

Poison is a little to risky, but put it in a place where the kids or cat can't get to, and if you suspect that ether one got in to the poison take them to the doc right then.

I would use sticky traps, in a place that the kids or cats can get in too, or humane traps.