Flour & cement powder rat poison - queries

Gas Bag · 2011-01-26T12:58:22+00:00

I've recently come across some articles that mention you can make yourown "non-toxic" rat/mouse posion by making a 50:50 mixture of regular/corn flour and cement powder. They eat the mixture, then go in searchof water. Once they drink some water....game over. I have a fewspecific questions, in relation to this D.I.Y. rat poison.- How effective is this mixture at killing rats and/or mice?- Assuming you place this mixture indoors (e.g. in the roof space),will this poison ONLY take effect once the rodent goes outside for adrink of water? The reason being, I'd want to avoid at-all-costshaving Ratty "snuff it" in my roof space, then having the most God-awful smell to contend with a few days later.- Is there anything that can be added to this mixture that would makeit extremely enticing to rats and/or mice? e.g. Powdered parmesancheese, sugar, salt, a little soy/fish sauce, some type of finelychopped meat (raw or cooked)? I am just taking a wild guess here, asI don't know what would attract them.- Most of all, would tile grouting powder, used for bathroom tiling,work just as well as cement powder in this D.I.Y. mixture?I really would appreciate some advice. Thanks.

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invalid unparseable 15 years ago

People who put house cats out can't possibly care about their pets any more than people who put their five year olds out to play on the freeway. Domesticated cats are not ferral, they have very few outdoor survival skills if any. Most folks who are annoyed by their neighbors pet cats will shoot them. .177 pellet guns make no noise and leave no identifying traces.. more cats die from gun shot than from any other cause. Anyone who puts a house cat out because they think they are harming a sentient creature by keeping it indoors is a pinhead with a lower IQ than any cat. And cats don't smell, not unless they are ill. Exuding no odor is just one way how nature made felines one of the best hunters on the planet, which is why they also bury their waste, the only animal that does. Naturally the lazy bastards that don't regularly clean the cat box are who smell, not the cat. Humans smell... and I'm positive if I ever visited your terlits I'd about die from the stench.

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Kevin Kirkpatrick 10 years ago

replying to ransley, Kevin Kirkpatrick wrote: They smell the flour in the mixture and eat that getting cement as a by product which kills them.

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Gilla Badaloo 10 years ago

replying to Frank, Gilla Badaloo wrote: I have done it before. Jamaicans always do this and its a real killer, lol, I just set some as well. I have to do it like once every 3 years. So now is a bit later than usual but I saw a mice and I have to get rid of it. The point. The instant they consume the mixture, they do realize something odd and just like us, we want something to flush it down, so they search, i normally set a container cause I am a nice rat killer. Yes you may put cheese and meat to attract them, It is just an additional treat. Oh, the smell, get prepared, its either you deal with the smell or you deal with leptustirosis. I choses smell. I allow my pup to search and then we keep a memorial.

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Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney 10 years ago

I'd like to try this out on roof rats. I have one of these empty bromadiolone containers. The hole is supposed to be small enough to keep squirrels, etc., out.

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Pen68 8 years ago

replying to Gilla Badaloo, Pen68 wrote: How do you make it? My rodents are smart and nothing is working. I put steel wool in the opening that they were coming in so apparently they made another somewhere else

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Cheri 8 years ago

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YIKES!

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Hank Rogers 8 years ago

Ha Ha Ha. Those PenFart pictures always make me laugh! That man should have been a comedian.

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Gum Boocho 8 years ago

replying to Frank, Gum Boocho wrote: IMHO traps may not work since the mice may continue & reproduce while you kill a lot of mice without extermination.

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Antoinette Blunt 8 years ago

replying to Gum Boocho, Antoinette Blunt wrote: At the same time the reproducing mice have to eat and so do their off springs, so in a since you're killing two birds with one stone. Plus you are stopping their future existence.

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shantitalli1 7 years ago

If you put something wet to the mix the cement will harden when dry and the rat won't eat it then. When the rats eat the dry mix then search for water the cement will get wet and hard and will kill the rat.

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shantitalli1 7 years ago

If you put something wet to the mix the cement will harden when dry and the rat won't eat it then. When the rats eat the dry mix then search for water the cement will get wet and hard and will kill the rat.

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penmart01 7 years ago

Bullshit, feral cats very rarely bother birds... why waste energy hunting critters that can fly off when rodents are far easier prey. It's house cats that people let out that go after birds... house cats are well fed so they hunt birds for entertinment. Barn cats don't hunt birds, barn cats hunt the rodents that are eating the livestock feed

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Hank Rogers 7 years ago

Popeye, pull up yoose pants, and put yoose tallywhacker back in, and zip up!

And quit humping those damn stray cats ... yoose gonna get yoose little tool scratched one of these days.

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Jack Granade 7 years ago

Do they allow cats in your HUD apartment, Sheldon?

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jmcquown 7 years ago

He's not allowed near play grounds.

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David 7 years ago

replying to Brooklyn1, David wrote: Your comment is out of order. Nobody "needs to be poisoned" for making a mistake.

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David 7 years ago

Old age no longer factors into the death of cats?

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Bf 7 years ago

replying to Gas Bag, Bf wrote: You need to also add a generous amount of salt, about 1tablespoon per mugfull of mixture. Remove all drinking sources from inside and setup a few water stations outside this will draw them out to drink so they don't die.inside

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Gmcman28 7 years ago

replying to Pen68, Gmcman28 wrote: Spray foam !! Used it in the storage locker where my boss used to store his Potato Chips. Quit having mouse problems after that..

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