Anybody seen mouse poison in the pound shop?

[MorrisZapp]

We have a mouse problem, and a pest control guy told my DP that the only 'fail safe' method was to buy a white powder from the pound shop that clings to the wee buggers and then kills them when they clean themselves.

I have visited my local poundland (Edinburgh St James centre) and they don't have it.

It has a brand name, possibly beginning with B, but my DP can't remember it and google gives me nowt.

Anybody heard of this, or seen it?

Many thanks!

(posted in chat too)

Bumping for you.

I don't know the brand, but I would add a quick warning.

Next door neighbour to my mum used poison on an infestation of mice in her house. At least one of the mice decided to crawl under my mother's house to die.

Mouse corpse was inaccessible without ripping up half the downstairs loo.

Decaying mouse must be the most VILE smell in the world. And it reeked for MONTHS.

What I'm saying is, mouse poison may be effective but you can't choose where the buggers go to end it all. At least traps you know the corpses will be where you left 'em.

Ugh, good point!
We had a rat crawl into the back of our fridge radiator bit and die there.
It took me ages to work out what the vile smell was and where it was coming from.
Ended up as a bunch of bone and black slime behind the grill bit. Really very discusting.

We've tried traps, we're way beyond that now!

Surely the little varmints are going to die in your house naturally anyway, poison or no poison?

I'm not sure - I certainly know people who have had dead mouse smell through the rodent chewing through wires ... also not nice!

I'm guessing the majority fall prey to predators though in nature rather than holing up in your house to die?