mouse in the house!!

ucsd_ucla_dad
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:46:41 +0000

If I put it outside and another animal eats it, will it poison that animal?

Yes they can but it’s hard to say how badly it would affect the animal that eats it - a cat is way bigger than a mouse so I wouldn’t expect the tiny bit of poison in the mouse’s stomach to be terrible but it’s enough that they issue warnings to this effect. Maybe a vet can say for sure.

If you check the mouse poison you might have used and notice it’s been eaten then you should be careful about disposal of the mouse. This sounds bad but you could always put it outside and if it’s not behaving normally, i.e. if it’s just sitting there lethargic, it could be dispatched with a shovel or something and then either buried or put in a plastic bag and placed in the trash.