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  1. rhs7111

    rats as predators

    Quote: My info did not come from ehow.com, but from several vets. Well then I think you should query better vets, or contact a top veterinary school to ask them....try Cornell, Tufts, OSU, etc. If your vets really told you that a cat or dog would need to eat many poisoned rats in order to be...
  2. rhs7111

    rats as predators

    Quote: I'm sorry, but it just isn't true. The ONLY way to kill rats without a secondary posioning risk is to use traps. Yes, traps are time-consuming, nasty to "dispose" of, and rats to smarten up to the traps so you need to keep revising the bait and placement strategy, but they do work.
  3. rhs7111

    rats as predators

    1) consider getting your information about poisons and physiological affects from a source more reputable than ehow.com. Seriously. 2) what you described will indeed remain in the cadaver and cause secondary poisoning to the consumer of the cadaver. 3) one small sized dead poisoned rat is more...
  4. rhs7111

    rats as predators

    Quote: Sorry but it is your information that isn't accurate. There ABSOLUTELY isn't ANY poison without a secondary kill affect. There are "new" poisons with that claim, but they've been found to be false advertising. There simply is no such thing as safe poison.
  5. rhs7111

    rats as predators

    Poison will also kill your chickens, and any other animal (including pets) that eat the dead poisoned rats. The best (and only) natural predators of rats are opossoms and owls. Of course, both will choose chicken dinner over rat dinner, so you need to protect your chickens. However, I strongly...
  6. rhs7111

    rats as predators

    Rats will massacre chickens....they're nasty.
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