weird poison?

[Bunnylady]

Sorry but bromadiolone (active ingriendient in most) is not designed to make them head to water. Yes it causes extreme thirst but this is just one of many of the symptoms of exposure. It is a blood thinner. I have been a licensed Pest control technician in 3 states for the past 12 years. They may get thirsty, but "heading to water" is a stretch used by salesman. homeowner says,"arent they going to die in the walls and smell?", salesman," Oh no, they will go outside looking for water. More than likely the lethargic, nauseated, bleeding at the nose, hungry ,thirsty and having diarhea mouse goes back to his nest and curls up to die. But poison is designed to kill based on body weight. The bigger the animal the more poison needed to kill. Large dogs need to consume more poison than most people have out to kill them . I havent known cats to want to eat several blocks of wax blocks filled with bird seed.

The horse barn where I work had a serious rat problem, and hired an exterminator to deal with it. He was creative at finding places to put the bait stations, I have to give him that. Quite a few of the poisoned rats wound up in the water buckets in the stalls. For a while, I was playing a sort of gruesome guessing game - "who's going to have the rat this morning?"

Apparently, the sick rats were slipping in and drowning - I once found 5 in the same bucket! Not all were dead when I found them - that wasn't much fun, either. But as stated above, they didn't all wind up there. There were several times that the unmistakable smell of dead rat was wafting around in one of the stalls or storage areas. While others complained of the smell, for some reason, I was the only one who would actually look for the body to dispose of it properly.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

Yeah one differance between rats and mice is rats need an actual water source to drink from. Thats a good part of control, removing water sources.

 

[chicknmania]

According to the warning on the poison I just used, consuming a poisoned rat would kill your dog. No way did the rat that died consume a TBSP of poison...the block was barely nibbled and the rat was very dead.

My point exactly We will not use poison, not even weed poison or insecticide if we can help it. Even if it doesn't kill the unintended victim, it can make them very sick, and suffer. I think that it must have been a man made poison, as I don't know of too many toxic weeds in Ohio that a dog and cat would eat.