can I use anti-freeze to kill mice?

Question

I know the stuff is potent, and I have looked at Search here and many ideas but click trap difficult to set; glue pads seems not to attract them...poison in antifreeze ok?

Answer 1

Try peanut butter on your traps....they love peanut butter

or Get a cat or a snake...

Answer 2

Well, if I were you I wouldn't kill them. Just buy humane traps, they may be hard to set but killing an animal annoying or not is cruel, just read the instructions or whatever come with it, set it then take them into the woods and let them go. But if you really want to kill them then you should get the proper stuff, because if they are in your house and you have other animals anti-freeze can kill them too. So I would just either buy a humane trap and set them free or get a proper tool or liquid that only kills mice. Good Luck

Answer 3

Sure! As long as you don't mind the STINK! *laughter*

You need to bait those glue pads! One of those with a piece of a pretzel stuck into it caught a mouse that found its way into my house about two years ago.

It worked great! If you have a rat, you may want to consider attaching something like a pair of vice-grips to the pad so that the pad is too heavy for the rat to push away. If you have the time and the patience, you can attach a string between the pad and a thumbtack stuck somewhere. The rat MAY be so big that it can push itself around the room with a free hind-leg after it has become stuck to the pad.

Answer 4

You can use peanut butter, for your glue pads.It will attract them. Also place the pads in the most pathing area the mice take. Anti-freeze is just not a solution. Worst case senerio you have to call an exterminator.

Answer 5

You wouldn't want to use anti-freeze or the pellets. Trust me. I used the pellets, the rat ate them, and then got into the wall and died. I had to put up with the smell for at least two and a half weeks. After that, I did it old school and used mouse traps and caught all of them within a week. Plus, they die instantly so you don't have to worry about "where" they'll die. Good luck!

Answer 6

my mom bought those glue pads... the do not work. try regular mousetraps with peanut butter as bait they work good... first figure out how the are getting in your house and if it is a hole get a carpenter to cover it up properly. mice can fit through a quarter inch of space. if they are trying to get to your garbage, by a garbage can with the lid that flips up when u press down on the thing. or just contact a pest control service.

Answer 7

You will kill every animal in reach of the antifreeze. Most people are too scared of snakes to get one, but they are a very good way to eliminate mice and rat problems. They can get in all the small spaces. When their are no more rodents for the snake to feed on he will move on. Snakes have no interest in hurting humans, they are shy, quiet, and laid back.

Answer 8

You can but you may want to try a posion made to kill mice! They have these little bags with pellets in them and you put them were the mice go and they eat some of it and die! Or you can try a mice trap (there are ones where it does not kill the mice just caputers it so you can set it free)!

Answer 9

Umm well to some of us who acctually care about the well being of helpless animals we take this seriously. if i were you i wouldnt use anti-freeze but maybe a humane no kill trap so then you can release them into the wild. in the future to keep them out use dryer sheets, we camp and we put them every where in our fith wheel and we've only had 1 mouse and it commited suicide by jumping into our toilet.

Answer 10

yep it works i've done it before good job you have a great mind to come up with that my dad had 2 tell me cause i was asking many people and they had no clue .