Does D-CON actually ATTRACT mice?

[corpulent]

I know it's "bait" but does it ATTRACT mice, or just work if they happen across it.

Say I have some DCON near my garage door. If there are mice outside, will they smell it (or whatever) and come in after it?

 

[ISOM]

Decon rat & mice killer

Decon contails "worferin" and requires the CRITTER to eat 1/3 of it's body weight to kill.

 

[m1gunner]

I my experience, it doesn't attract mice, but it really wrecks them if they find it.

Did you know a poisoned mouse will sometimes try to crawl into your defroster inlet on your truck? Pewie!

 

[Bill_inBouse]

We live out in the desert with our fair share of mice. I don't think it attracts the mice, but they sure empty a box real fast. I think they take it home and the whole family enjoys it....for a while anyway

 

[deanodog]

My cat is too lazy to catch the mice and I have been wondering if I use D-con and my lazy cat eats a mouse that has eaten it would it kill the cat?

 

[5Wire]

Decon dehydrates mice. They'll load up on the little pellets and take them back "home" for snacks. They keep munching the pellets off and on then die someplace else from dehydration and usually desiccate before they rot, no smell. There's a warning on the box to prevent children and pets from ingesting the pellets.

Here's a product that live traps 'em really well, if you want to relocate the little pests to somewhere that may deserve them. About $1.00 at Wal-Mart, Mice-Cube:

 

[cowboy117]

My cat is too lazy to catch the mice

Get a female cat!

 

[Gamecock]

Decon dehydrates mice. They'll load up on the little pellets and take them back "home" for snacks. They keep munching the pellets off and on then die someplace else from dehydration and usually desiccate before they rot, no smell. There's a warning on the box to prevent children and pets from ingesting the pellets.

10-4. Makes it hard to tell how effective it is, because the
mice leave my garage searching for water, and die elsewhere.

Joe

 

[Rule3]

I know it's "bait" but does it ATTRACT mice, or just work if they happen across it.

Say I have some DCON near my garage door. If there are mice outside, will they smell it (or whatever) and come in after it?

Yes, that's why it is a Bait. It has an attractant in it and most baits (do not know specifically on D Con) but commercial baits have yummy seeds and nuts in them so it smells good to the Rodent and therefore they eat it. Just like peanut butter on a trap, smells good so they go for it. No they really do not like cheese.

If you mean attracts them as brings more than the normal population around your house , no. The other gang members for other neighborhoods are not coming over for a party.

 

[Bill_inBouse]

Somewhere in the fine print the directions state that critters eating the dead rodents may themselves be poisoned, When I (If I) see them laying around the yard after they die I pick them up and throw them in a hole out back so the owls and hawks don't get them...ya never know.

 

[cass]

I keep it in our hunting cabin year round. The first few weeks the bait traps were empty on a weekly basis - now the pellets go untouched, due to nomo mice. They say that there is no smell....well, I sure disagree with that! I've spent a lot of time crawling around sniffing for the smell. Works great.

 

[mwtdvm]

Decon dehydrates mice. They'll load up on the little pellets and take them back "home" for snacks. They keep munching the pellets off and on then die someplace else from dehydration and usually desiccate before they rot, no smell. There's a warning on the box to prevent children and pets from ingesting the pellets.

NO! Decon is a warfarin type poison. It keeps their blood from clotting, and then they start bleeding internally and die.... In theory, a cat eating enough mice could also bleed out. Dogs seem to like the Decon "wax bait" (dark green squares).

 

[Wyo]

Oh, yeah, they smell! Big time. And that in a climate where 30% humidity is way up there. Don't ask me how I know this.

 

[cobra44]

I use good old Coca Cola. Put it in jar lids. You have to replace it every few days. They cannot pass gas, thus they die.
It does work, with no threat to other animals.

 

[5Wire]

NO! .

Here's what E-How says about how Decon kills: "Baits differ from traps in eliminating rodents through the ingestion of chemicals that are harmful to the rodents. The active ingredient of d-Con baits is brodifacoum, an anticoagulant commonly used in pesticides, which inhibits the rodents' abilities to digest food and water, making the rodents become starved and dehydrated after eating enough bait." Wafarin is not so powerful as brodifacoum. They may bleed internally, too, but that effect is not mentioned. Either way, an unpleasant death.

So, Yes.

 

[Rule3]

Here's what E-How says about how Decon kills: "Baits differ from traps in eliminating rodents through the ingestion of chemicals that are harmful to the rodents. The active ingredient of d-Con baits is brodifacoum, an anticoagulant commonly used in pesticides, which inhibits the rodents' abilities to digest food and water, making the rodents become starved and dehydrated after eating enough bait." Wafarin is not so powerful as brodifacoum. They may bleed internally, too, but that effect is not mentioned. Either way, an unpleasant death.

So, Yes.

Why would you disagree with a Dr VM?
It is exactly what he says it is.

Brodifacoum - toxicity, ecological toxicity and regulatory information

Brodifacoum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/standardlists/msds/6840-01-508-6085_msds.pdf

 

[5Wire]

Why would you disagree with a Dr VM?
It is exactly what he says it is.

You may not have noticed but none of your links say much about internal bleeding being the cause of death in mice from decon, the topic I addressed. I posted nothing about brodifacoum not being a warfarin type poison, just that it was more powerful than warfarin which fact is confirmed in one of your links.

What I did do was to quote a source that made a statement that I understood to be true. At the same time I acknowledged mwtdvm by admitting that internal bleeding could be a means of death, too. I did not disagree with the post.

I suppose I could have processed "mwtdvm" to discern the dvm part to be Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. I didn't. Oops.

Tell me, does OCD1 imply Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

Do you feel better now?

 

[mwtdvm]

possible clarification or adding to the confusion

I guess I have to rant here a little bit... about the internet as a source of information. It can be very good and it can be very bad... As mentioned earlier warfarin type poisons are anticoagulants. After being eaten, your liver is blocked from making factors necessary for blood coagulation, factors II, VII, IX, and X and the anticoagulant proteins C and S. Blood loss results in "hypovolemia", lack of blood volume, which to some people would equal dehydration. Not exactly the same but to a "nonmedical" person, the difference may be negligible. But with the warfarin compounds, what you die from is the blood leaking out of your capillaries into lungs, abdomen, thoracic cavity and brain/spinal cord.
Hope this helps..

 

[5Wire]

I guess I have to rant here a little bit... about the internet as a source of information. It can be very good and it can be very bad... As mentioned earlier warfarin type poisons are anticoagulants. After being eaten, your liver is blocked from making factors necessary for blood coagulation, factors II, VII, IX, and X and the anticoagulant proteins C and S. Blood loss results in "hypovolemia", lack of blood volume, which to some people would equal dehydration. Not exactly the same but to a "nonmedical" person, the difference may be negligible. But with the warfarin compounds, what you die from is the blood leaking out of your capillaries into lungs, abdomen, thoracic cavity and brain/spinal cord.
Hope this helps..

Nasty way to die. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[feralmerril]

I take warfarin daily. Aint killed me yet. In fact they tell me I would be dead without it!