Re: Hay storage advice

Hunter Hampton wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:11:19 -0400, law <lawiserNot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I believe Hunter is referring to cats, dogs and raptors *not* eating the poison directly, but eating the poisoned rats if the rats wandered about whilst dying.

Exactly. The farm owner here saved a Bald Eagle's life, not one of
our Eagles, after it had eaten a poisoned rat.

I saved one of the farm dog's life after she ate something that had
eaten poison... she was bleeding out the nose when I raced her to the
vet.

That said, there is supposed to be a new rat poison that doesn't have
a secondary kill....

The problem is, if you ask for it and the seller doesn't have it, they
will say whatever they have doesn't.


Hunter,

In the past I've used a Purina product called ASSAULT. Now, I've tried other baits with the same active killing agent, but without the same results ... and I've only used it on mice, not rats, but the person who originally put me onto it used it around their farm buildings for mice and rats.

I don't know why the stuff is different from others with the same killing agent, but I literally had a mouse eat the bait .. a few munches .... behind my office door, move along the wall to behind a cedar chest and then stay there and die. With Assault, I've never found a dead mouse "out" in the living areas of the house ... they've gone into places to hide (like any wild animal will do when it gets ill). With the other baits I've used, I have seen "drunken" mice staggering around, looking for a place to die. When I use the Assault, I haven't really worried the dogs would find a mouse. With the others, I'm very careful to only put the bait out away from where I restrict the dogs "for the duration."

LisaW


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