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?? how is rat poison ever safe for pets? where did you get that info? can you share the data that shows its safe for pets?
No, Red, you are correct, rat and mouse bait is NEVER safe for pets. Let me tell you as an emergency room veterinary technician, there is no such thing as a rat, mouse, gopher, slug, snail or mole bait that is safe for pets, even if it is labeled as such.
The rat and mouse baits that make the rodents bleed to death internally does the same thing to dogs and cats. It doesn't matter if they are "bruised" or not from crawling through small spaces, it will make them spontaneously bleed internally and they will die if not treated early enough.
The other type of rat and mouse bait (active ingredient is bromethalin) causes neurologic symptoms and does not affect clotting ability. Once a pet shows neuro symptoms from ingesting this type of rat bait there is nothing that can be done for them, it is not reversible like the anticoagulant type can be.
While we're on the subject, the slug bait that says "safe for pets" ISN'T. I don't know how many dogs our ER clinic has treated for ingesting that type of slug bait...
DH puts "rat candy" in our vechicles, and sometimes we find a dead one..and they always have their innerds squirting out their bum, and have bleed to death INTERNALLY, in their intestines and lungs.
The smallest capillaries bleed first, like the lungs.
It is not safe for us, pets or the hawks & owls that can catch & eat these slow & dying rodents and get sick themselves, or even feed bits of the infected rat/mouse meat to their chicks.
I want no more rat candy here !
I especially hate when they get sick from it & die in the defroster in the car, or under the coop or house & stink to high heaven and you cannot find the bodies to dispose of them.
?? how is rat poison ever safe for pets? where did you get that info? can you share the data that shows its safe for pets?
No, Red, you are correct, rat and mouse bait is NEVER safe for pets. Let me tell you as an emergency room veterinary technician, there is no such thing as a rat, mouse, gopher, slug, snail or mole bait that is safe for pets, even if it is labeled as such.
The rat and mouse baits that make the rodents bleed to death internally does the same thing to dogs and cats. It doesn't matter if they are "bruised" or not from crawling through small spaces, it will make them spontaneously bleed internally and they will die if not treated early enough.
The other type of rat and mouse bait (active ingredient is bromethalin) causes neurologic symptoms and does not affect clotting ability. Once a pet shows neuro symptoms from ingesting this type of rat bait there is nothing that can be done for them, it is not reversible like the anticoagulant type can be.
While we're on the subject, the slug bait that says "safe for pets" ISN'T. I don't know how many dogs our ER clinic has treated for ingesting that type of slug bait...
DH puts "rat candy" in our vechicles, and sometimes we find a dead one..and they always have their innerds squirting out their bum, and have bleed to death INTERNALLY, in their intestines and lungs.
The smallest capillaries bleed first, like the lungs.
It is not safe for us, pets or the hawks & owls that can catch & eat these slow & dying rodents and get sick themselves, or even feed bits of the infected rat/mouse meat to their chicks.
I want no more rat candy here !
I especially hate when they get sick from it & die in the defroster in the car, or under the coop or house & stink to high heaven and you cannot find the bodies to dispose of them.
