is a dead mouse in your house dangerous for your health?

[Nicky91]

we had this smell coming from the area of our boiler, we opened the closet door, and we saw a dead mouse on the floor of that boiler closet


we threw it away in a cloth, immediately cleaning that place, but is it dangerous for your health, i mean standing right above a corpse of a mouse?

[hijaxers]

we had this smell coming from the area of our boiler, we opened the closet door, and we saw a dead mouse on the floor of that boiler closet


we threw it away in a cloth, immediately cleaning that place, but is it dangerous for your health, i mean standing right above a corpse of a mouse?

I'd be a bit worried, mice don't arrive alone, check other places for droppings.

[Cherie]

Live mice are worse as they leave a trail of wee wherever they run....you need to put down traps to check if there are any more

[Swan]

I used to be on mouse trapping duty in this guy's big old 16th century house when i worked as his right hand man on the property. He had a big ish attic, mainly full of books, but navigating the reinforced steel beams was always a nightmare up there. And the smell of dead mice, and sometimes rats, stays with you forever. I really hated doing that. Dealing with one dead mouse wont cause you any harm, unless you eat it lol. And yeah, don't pick it bare handed too.

I'd collect them up in a bag, then take them out into one of the fields and hope the couple of Buzzards hovering around would dive down for them. But i expect a fox, or badger had them instead.

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[Cherie]

I used to be on mouse trapping duty in this guy's big old 16th century house when i worked as his right hand man on the property. He had a big ish attic, mainly full of books, but navigating the reinforced steel beams was always a nightmare up there. And the smell of dead mice, and sometimes rats, stays with you forever. I really hated doing that. Dealing with one dead mouse wont cause you any harm, unless you eat it lol. And yeah, don't pick it bare handed too.

I'd collect them up in a bag, then take them out into one of the fields and hope the couple of Buzzards hovering around would dive down for them. But i expect a fox, or badger had them instead.



Not if they had been poisoned :fist:

[Zizu]

we had this smell coming from the area of our boiler, we opened the closet door, and we saw a dead mouse on the floor of that boiler closet


we threw it away in a cloth, immediately cleaning that place, but is it dangerous for your health, i mean standing right above a corpse of a mouse?


It will stink the place out if ya don’t dispose of it


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[Redway]

Just make sure it’s disposed of correctly and under no circumstances must you touch it with your bare hands. Lots of people are living with mice but just don’t know it (I type that as someone who’s so phobic of vermin I guard myself and my ends with things like peppermint oil).

[user104658]

If you live anywhere vaguely rural there are mice under your house. There just... definitely are. All you can do is B) not leave out any food sources and B) block any entry points as well as you can to stop them coming in.

And if you live in a city you almost certainly have a rat or 5 living somewhere very nearby. You just don't see 'em.

Be careful if you need to dispose of them and wash hands thoroughly and you'll be fine. Just being "near" one isn't going to do anything. Little cat we had a few years ago was an absolute monster of a hunter, brought mice in (living, dead or somewhere in between) almost every night in summer. Also the occasional frog :umm2:.

Was CONSTANTLY cleaning mouse blood & guts off the hall floor :fist:. And had to catch & release loads that she brought in alive :joker:.

Speaking of which.

Just having a cat will often keep mice out of your home. The mice can smell them and are smart enough to stay away. We have a little house cat now (Ragdoll) and she would 100% not be able to kill a mouse, but they still stay away because they don't know about her gross incompetence.

[Zizu]

Don’t they say we are always within 10 foot of a mouse / rat ?


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[Redway]

If you live anywhere vaguely rural there are mice under your house. There just... definitely are. All you can do is B) not leave out any food sources and B) block any entry points as well as you can to stop them coming in.

And if you live in a city you almost certainly have a rat or 5 living somewhere very nearby. You just don't see 'em.

Be careful if you need to dispose of them and wash hands thoroughly and you'll be fine. Just being "near" one isn't going to do anything. Little cat we had a few years ago was an absolute monster of a hunter, brought mice in (living, dead or somewhere in between) almost every night in summer. Also the occasional frog :umm2:.

Was CONSTANTLY cleaning mouse blood & guts off the hall floor :fist:. And had to catch & release loads that she brought in alive :joker:.

Speaking of which.

Just having a cat will often keep mice out of your home. The mice can smell them and are smart enough to stay away. We have a little house cat now (Ragdoll) and she would 100% not be able to kill a mouse, but they still stay away because they don't know about her gross incompetence.

Any opinion on whether peppermint oil’s really all-that as a rodent repellent?

Don’t they say we are always within 10 foot of a mouse / rat ?


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6 feet in London.

[Redway]

https://youtu.be/FEPRq8PcpWU

Just leaving this out there.

[user104658]

Any opinion on whether peppermint oil’s really all-that as a rodent repellent?


I can't say I'm an expert but we did have an exterminator out a few years back (grey squirrels in the loft - those bastards can do some real damage!) and his opinion was that all of the "home remedies" and home made traps are crap and don't really work.

But I suppose, he has a vested interest in people calling out a professional, so he would say that.

I do know we weren't able to get rid of them humanely, unfortunately. Luckily they're apparently quite smart, so once they realise somewhere isn't safe they'll move on quite fast.

When I first heard them I was worried that it was bats. I see bats around here a lot, and they're protected -- if they nest in your house, not only are you not allowed to get rid of them, you have to close off the attic space because you're not allowed to disturb them at all! Make yourselves at home lads I guess!

[Redway]

I can't say I'm an expert but we did have an exterminator out a few years back (grey squirrels in the loft - those bastards can do some real damage!) and his opinion was that all of the "home remedies" and home made traps are crap and don't really work.

But I suppose, he has a vested interest in people calling out a professional, so he would say that.

I do know we weren't able to get rid of them humanely, unfortunately. Luckily they're apparently quite smart, so once they realise somewhere isn't safe they'll move on quite fast.

When I first heard them I was worried that it was bats. I see bats around here a lot, and they're protected -- if they nest in your house, not only are you not allowed to get rid of them, you have to close off the attic space because you're not allowed to disturb them at all! Make yourselves at home lads I guess!

Squirrels might look cute but they do a lot of damage (especially to wires) so they need exterminating as soon as possible if they’ve found their way in.

And obviously I would make a bit of a song-and-dance about essential oils because I’m just a bit of a buff about them but from what I’ve seen and experienced peppermint oil is actually quite effective at keeping rats and mice away. It’s not just peppermint that they supposedly don’t like the smell of (white vinegar, ammonia - which apparently smells like cat-piss, tea-tree, eucalyptus, pepper and things citrusy/lemon-y apparently keep them away, too) but peppermint’s the quintessential one that people normally use if they want to keep them away/get rid of them the home-remedy way. If I want to light a candle with the window open or mouse-proof the kitchen I’ll add a few drops of peppermint (to either the candle or the mop) or dab a few cotton-balls with peppermint oil (which helps keep the bins fresh as well as supposedly keeping mice and rats away from them). It’s well-established by now that I’m genuinely OCD about things like this (and then some) so naturally I would be extra like that but I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest it doesn’t work.

I wouldn’t want to get a cat if I’m honest. They’re more quiet/boundary-conscious and able to control themselves than dogs (which is good) and they make for good poems (lots of eminent writers have written about cats from young) but I couldn’t deal with them bringing in half-gnawed mice every week. Cats might be a natural predator to mice and rats but that doesn’t mean they’re bound to exactly help keep them away, not if they bring them back as prize-trophies.

[user104658]

We caved and shelled out for a house cat (after me harping on about it being cruel to keep cats indoors for years) because our previous cat was hit by a car, and my daughter couldn't handle the idea of getting another & the anxiety of letting it go outside. That cat was a serious hunter though, it was constant carnage, the worst was that she'd sometimes "hide" them so you'd just smell it and have to go searching :umm2:.

But yeah we paid through the nose for a Ragdoll cat that can't go outside. I still stand by my previous statements that it's cruel to keep normal cats indoors. I can see why Ragdolls aren't meant to go out though ... completely incompetent at being a cat. She wouldn't make it 2 hours out there :umm2:. Sometimes it takes her a good 20 minutes to figure out how to jump onto the windowsill without going head first into the radiator instead.

[Livia]

I have a cat. He takes care of security as far as mice are concerned.

[bots]

i read somewhere that coffee grounds are a good rodent repellent. I quite like the idea of lobbing out coffee grounds around the garden

[Redway]

i read somewhere that coffee grounds are a good rodent repellent. I quite like the idea of lobbing out coffee grounds around the garden

That, too. There are tons of alleged repellents besides peppermint.

[arista]

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