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Ok, in the garage! And where I saw one, he probably has friends that I didn't see! I set out sticky traps because I'm afraid of chemicals, but I think my mouse is too smart for that. So today I found this product at Home Depot called Mouse X and I wondered if anyone has any info on the product. 

The packaging says Nontoxic mouse control. 100% naturally derived - safe for use around livestock and pets. The ingredients are: 

corn gluten meal 55%

sodium chloride 2%

inert ingredients: maltodextrin, sorbitol, wheat flour, wheat germ oil 43%

Now, I can't figure out how that would hurt the dogs. But I can't figure out how it would hurt the mouse either. My secondary concern beyond the dogs somehow getting ahold of poison is will they find and eat a dead mouse (please no - that's just gross) and if they would ingest poison via the mouse. 

I haven't opened this stuff yet - it was kind of expensive $20 for a pound. And if you think it's a bad idea I will take it back. But I'm definitely not loving the idea of a mouse/mice in the garage and I really don't want them to migrate to the house. 

Thanks!! Stacy (Katie and Ava say thanks too)

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Here's how it kills mice:

The rats consume RatX or Corn Guard as a food source. In fact, the rodent digestive system is different from any other animal or human. The natural rodenticides coat the critters’ stomach lining and block all messages to the brain to drink water. Rats and mice are simply unable to digest the corn cob powder and corn gluten meal. Thus, the ingested baits cause the rodents to dehydrate. The corn cob and corn gluten absorb the liquids in the intestine, resulting in low blood pressure, blood thickening and circulatory collapse. Thus, the rats become lethargic and retreat to their burrows and nests. Afterward, they slip into a coma and die from a heart attack. You may start finding the dead corpses of rodents within a day or two after feeding. Fortunately, you won’t smell from decomposition of decaying rats due to the dehydration and fast mummification process.

Reference: http://myhousepests.com/rats/natural-rat-poison.html

Thanks Karen! So you think it's okay for me to use this then? I personally would rather find them and relocate them - or keep them as pets. I'm strange like that. But I don't want to share my living space with them (if they aren't in a cage!) And I don't really know how else to get rid of them. 

This is totally my fault. I like to feed the squirrels so there was squirrel food in the garage. And then I had a new bag of dog food that wasn't open because I like to clean out the vittle vault before I open the new bag. And they ate a hole in it! I made too big of a temptation for them. And now I have to fix my mistake!

I think it's probably safe to use the RatX, and I'd do my darnedest to find the dead mice before the dogs do...not because of the product, just because mice carry all kinds of nasty things. 

You're probably going to have to throw out the bag of dog food if they chewed a hole in it. If they made a hole in the bag, they went into it. :( 

Oh, absolutely! I really don't want them eating anything dead! My dogs are domesticated well beyond a time when dogs killed things and ate them! 

Darn it! I didn't even think about the mouse actually getting into the dog food bag. I hate to throw a 30 pound bag of food away. This is going to sound horrible - but do you think if I put it in a clean trash bag the shelter would want it? Or is it too contaminated? I would feel bad because it's not good enough for my dogs but it's good enough for homeless dogs? But I'm sure the shelter dogs eat a lot of things I wouldn't feed my dogs...

I'm afraid there are probably mouse droppings in it. :(
Shelter dogs do eat some pretty bad food, Purina Dog Chow, Beneful, etc. But many shelters won't take open bags. 

Nobody is knowingly eating mouse poop around here! That's awful. I will dispose of the dog food far far away from the house! I'm not giving those mice any more of a reason to party here! 

I'm not sure if we bought the exact product name but we did buy something similar for the mice in our attic.  It does work the way Karen explained, but our mice tunnelled into the insulation in our walls and started to decompose there and it was an awful, awful smell.  We had three of them do that (that we found).  We have two electrical panels in our house and we could detect the smell coming from each of them - when we removed the panel from the front and removed some of the insulation we found them.  The other one tunnelled to a place we could remove the insulation also luckily - it would have been awful if they would have gone in the middle of the wall somewhere.  I would never get it again just for that reason.  Honestly, when we first read the package, we thought that it meant the dead mice would dehydrate (disintegrate).  Now we use the old fashioned mouse traps with peanut butter.  If your garage is empty, it would probably work.  Good luck!  Mice are gross!!!!!

Oh, that's terrible! I hope that doesn't happen here. I really think they are just in the garage. There is attic access, but I don't see any mouse indicators anywhere near there. And I didn't find any mouse holes. Of course I really have no idea what I'm doing! I've never had rodents before. 

The ideal solution would be to get a cat! But I am so allergic I can't have a cat in the house and I had a "garage cat" it would end up sleeping in bed with me. That's just who I am. I think my pet is being mistreated if it isn't sleeping on its own pillow. I wish I knew someone with a really good mouser who I could just borrow for a few days. 

Years ago, we had a mouse in the house. It showed up one night in my 6 year old's bedroom closet. We never could figure out how it got in, or how it got to the 2nd floor of our house without being seen, lol. Never found any holes in any walls anywhere in the house. Called an exterminator and he said they can get in through the tiniest crack and travel through walls and even up pipes in the walls. He put some kind of bait in various places in the house that were inaccessible to dogs and kids; the mouse (or more likely mice) would eat it and crawl off to die. Months later, I found a long-dead mouse on a high shelf in the basement closet. I found it by the smell. :( If there were others in the house, they must have left, lol. 

I know where the little stinkers are coming in! There's a place where the garage door doesn't seal up against the house very well. I'm really not that excited about the smell of dead mouse in the garage. But as long as it stays in the garage it will be somewhat okay. But I would like to live with the delusion that there's no way for them to get into the house. I'm pretty sure that's not true, but that's what I'm going to think. 

I'm glad you told me about the mouse poop in the dog food before the fancy dog food store closed on Sunday night! The girls don't mind how the situation turned out. They got surprise treats and Katie got a new collar - have to have a new spring wardrobe! Now I'm not going to think about mice anymore and maybe they will disappear!

I think that's a very wise and mature attitude. :) 

Isn't willful ignorance how it's supposed to be done? 

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