About mummifying poisons for rats and mice and the nuances of the work of these funds

An interesting phenomenon arose in the market of rat control drugs: sellers here were able to create a demand for a drug that they themselves invented. And this remedy is the so-called mummifying poison for rats.

It would seem that what is missing from buyers of rat poisons? There are quite effective poisons, and well-developed methods for the reliable protection of pets from them, and the prices for such products are so low that everyone can use them.

Nevertheless, there is an unresolved problem: rats decompose after death. And there are quite rare cases when, after the successful use of the poison somewhere in an inaccessible place in an apartment, house or office, the corpse of the pest mercilessly stinks, making the room simply unsuitable for life.

The photo below shows an example of a partially decomposed corpse of a rat:

Enterprising sellers quickly realized: if you promise the buyer that after the rat recovers its poison, its corpse will not spoil the air in the room (due to decomposition), then such a drug will be much more popular and easier to sell.

In general, this is how a remedy for rats with a mummifying effect appeared on sale. According to sellers, it first poisons the pest, and then leads to a kind of preservation of the tissues of its body. As a result, the rat corpse does not decompose and does not stink, but simply dries up. Once having declared these properties of the poison, sellers found an active demand for it, and then quickly introduced such funds into their permanent assortment.

On a note

It is not correct to say "mummified poison from rats and mice." According to the rules of the Russian language, “mummified” is one that itself has turned into a mummy. For example, a rat or mouse may be mummified after it has died, and its body has dried and not decomposed. The tool that provides such an effect is mummifying. This means that the poison is mummifying, and not “mummified”.

Buyers understand the charm of such an effect and today they are actively looking for mummifying rat poisoning - in the form of tablets, briquettes, poisoned grain, or drugs in other forms. At the same time, consumers do not even suspect that in fact, statements about the “mummifying effect”, generally speaking, are led by the nose ...

 

All you need to know about mummifying poisons

In fact, poison for rats with a mummifying effect, in the true sense of the phrase, does not exist on sale. The effect attributed to rodent poisons is simply an advertising move, a way to increase the attractiveness of the product, an empty promise and a property invented by the seller.

The fact is that inexpensive and competitive poison for rats, in principle, cannot be mummifying. To mummify the body of any animal, compliance with at least one of the following conditions is required:

1. Saturation of all animal tissues with substances that destroy bacteria-reducers;
2. Or a corpse getting into such conditions in which bacteria decomposing organics cannot exist.

An example of the first option is embalming the body, the results of which can be seen in the sarcophagi of the Egyptian pyramids or in the Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow. An example of the second option is mummies of wild animals caught in the ice (it’s too cold for bacteria), in the silt of swamps where oxygen does not enter, or in very dry desert conditions, where moisture is not enough for the activity of decomposing microorganisms.

The second condition in the apartment or in the office is unattainable - microclimate parameters are always maintained here, which are quite normal for the decomposition of a rat's corpse.

It is practically impossible to embalm the body of the rat with the help of a poisoned bait, since such a procedure involves abundant saturation of tissues with antibacterial agents. That is, the rat needs to be literally taken and soaked in a preservative.

On a note

Theoretically, mummification of a corpse can be achieved if special persistent antibiotics of a wide spectrum of action are added to the poison, which do not decompose in the body for a long time. In this case, the rat will kill the poison, and the bacteria-reducers - the antibiotic. As a result, the corpse will not decompose (or the decomposition rate will be very slow) and will dry faster than it stinks.

However, today not a single poison is known for rats, which would include such antibiotics. At least because such antibiotics are quite expensive - as a result, the poison would be very expensive and would not withstand competition in the market.

And now, perhaps, the main thing: no mummifying effect is indicated in any official description or in any instructions for rat drugs. This fact is explained simply: drug manufacturers are well aware that their agents do not contain mummifying components and do not possess the corresponding properties. They do not invent anything and are absolutely honest with customers. And nonexistent properties of drugs are attributed to sellers who are poorly versed in theory, but skillfully applying not quite honest methods to increase sales.

Feedback:

“I am interested in this question: I look at the packaging of Storm, on it - not a word about mummification. And in the store, the seller was directly crucified, what a good mummified remedy. I went on the Internet to read, half of the stores wrote that the product was mummified, half didn’t. There is a feeling that someone is coming up with something ... "

Tatyana, Tula

We conclude: no rat poison provides mummification of the corpses of dead rodents. However, there are a lot of funds that are positioned as mummifying. What effect can then be obtained from their use?

 

What products are sold as mummifying, and what is their real effect

As mummifying poisons, for example, the following are sold:

1. Storm is perhaps the most popular tool of this type. Contains flocumafen - actually, poison, when it gets into the blood the blocking mechanism of its coagulation and causing the death of the animal due to multiple internal hemorrhages. The mummifying effect for this substance is not known. Other components of the product are grain, dye and wax. So it remains only to wonder what ingredient of all this can turn a rat into a mummy. An analogue of the Storm is Goliath, in the instructions to which nothing is said about the mummifying effect;
2. Mortorate, its active substance is brodifacum. It acts similarly to Storm, in the official instructions from the manufacturer there is no mention of the mummifying effect;
3. The Nutcracker and Rat Death - analogues of Mortorat with the same active substance;
4. Best - a drug based on bromadiolone. Mummifying properties are also not known.

As you can see, there is no reason to believe that the corpse of a rat or mouse poisoned with one of these agents will suddenly be mummified and become "inedible" for bacteria.

Nevertheless, not only sellers speak about the mummifying effect, but also many buyers in reviews. But is this enough to believe in such an effect?

 

Why is it said that mummifying poisons really “mummify”?

In fact, the likelihood that the rat will die in an apartment or inside a private house is small. As a rule, animals arrange their nests outside of residential premises: in cellars or in attics, in areas near houses, on dryers in apartment buildings, in entrances and garbage bins.Even from a powerful poison, they do not die immediately, but only after a few hours or even days, but when the condition worsens, they hide in their shelters. Here, near the nest, the cadaverous smell spreads from the dead animal.

Consequently, if a rat dies from poison not in the house, where it runs only in search of food, but outside it, then in the room itself its corpse will not stink. But the person who bought the bait with the supposedly "mummifying" effect will be sure that there is no smell precisely because rats somewhere under the floor or behind the wall turned into mummies. Although in fact they had already safely decomposed somewhere outside the apartment, they “smelled” and only bones and wool remained from them.

And yet it happens that poisoned rats die inside apartments, offices, private houses and begin to stink mercilessly. Moreover, often such situations develop precisely after the use of "mummifying" poisons ...

Feedback

“These mummifying rat baits don't work! Somewhere, the rat died under the floor and stinks so that you can’t enter the house. Though do not disassemble the entire floor now! ”

Svetlana, St. Petersburg

 

How effective are poisons with this effect?

Nevertheless, the products that are sold under the guise of “mummifying” are for the most part quite effective rat poisons that are specifically designed to kill rodents and cope well with this task. Rats and mice die after eating them, and for the reasons stated above, the use of these products usually does not lead to the appearance of a smell of decomposition in the premises. Although such preparations do not guarantee the absence of a smell in the room, they are quite capable of killing a rat.

Therefore, both the Storm, and the Nutcracker, and all other means based on blood anticoagulants can be safely used in accordance with the instructions. They are laid out in those places in the room where rats and mice are most often, and add new portions as they eat old pests. Typically, rats die 3-4 days after the first time they fed such a bait (sometimes - depending on the amount of poison eaten - the effect occurs sooner or later).

It is important to remember that most rat poisoning is very toxic to pets and humans. Cats are especially sensitive to them. Therefore, the baits are placed where the pets will not find them, in the ideal case - in special containers in which only rats or mice can climb.

Feedback

“We are very pleased with mummifying poisons. Two times they bred rats, they work fine. Once in the barn they got rid of them, once in the basement of the house. And indeed, no smell, rats do not decompose. It’s better than lying and stinking somewhere. ”

Dmitry Pavlovich, Krasnodar

 

What else can I get rid of rats and mice so that there is no smell in the house

So get rid of rats and mice in the house, so as not to suffer then from cadaveric gases, it is possible in other ways. The best of them - mousetraps or rat traps, both crush, and those that catch animals alive.

After charging and installation, such a device needs to be checked regularly, and the captured or killed animals should be taken out of the apartment as far as possible. In this case, they do not exactly stink in the room.

Also, many cats and some normal dogs - fox terriers, yagd terriers - successfully catch rats and mice. They certainly will not let the prey go abyss, although after a successful hunt and meal, pets can leave unaesthetic legs or tails of rodents in the apartment.

You can’t just use poison and count on such helpers in the fight against rodents: even if a cat or dog does not find poison, it can catch and eat a poisoned but not dead rat and poison itself. Therefore, for safety, you should first run a Pied Piper pet into the premises for 2-3 days, and if it does not cope, then remove it and set traps or decompose the poison.

If you have personal experience with using “mummifying” poisons when fighting rats or mice - be sure to leave your review at the bottom of this page (in the comments box).

 

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