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When rodents consume rat poison, their blood-clotting ability begins to fail, and they slowly die from internal bleeding, or they become more susceptible to severe consequences and even death from minor injuries like cuts and bruises. It can take as long as 10 days for a rodent to die after consuming rodenticides.
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An infestation of mice and rats around your home is an undesirable situation, but turning to some types of rat poison to help control the problem can lead to another undesirable situation: dead and dying birds and other wildlife. Rat poisons, or rodenticides, can be used successfully to manage and control rodent infestations, but rodenticides that contain anticoagulants can have more far-reaching and unintended effects because of how these products are designed to works. Anticoagulant rodenticides kill rats and mice by interfering with their blood-clotting ability, according to the National Park Service. When rodents consume rat poison, their blood-clotting ability begins to fail, and they slowly die from internal bleeding, or they become more susceptible to severe consequences and even death from minor injuries like cuts and bruises. It can take as long as 10 days for a rodent to die after consuming rodenticides. During this time, they can experience nosebleeds and blood in their urine and feces and also can develop mange. They may even become an easier target for some predators as their health fails. In the meantime, those rats and mice that have consumed the rodenticide can be eaten by predators in the ecosystem, animals like raptors and mammals such as coyotes, bobcats and foxes. Even the carcasses of animals that have died from rat poison can be eaten by other animals looking for a meal. This allows the rodenticide to move its way up the food chain, leading to secondary poisoning of other animals, the park service reports. Then animals with secondary poisoning can be eaten by still other prey, causing tertiary poisoning. Many animals, including birds and mammals, depend on rodents like mice and rats as a reliable and steady food source, which is why the effects of these products can be so far reaching. Every meal these animals eat may include these harmful anticoagulants. These unintended victims of rodenticides may be able to survive with small amounts of the anticoagulants in their systems, but it can build up to dangerous — and even deadly — levels as they consume more and more affected prey. And these exposures can be nearly universal across ecosystems and food chains. In a study conducted by the National Park Service in the Santa Monica National Recreational Area in California, 94% of mountain lions, 92% of bobcats and 83% of coyotes studied had been exposed to anticoagulants in rodenticides. Among the coyotes in the study, rodenticide poisoning was the second leading cause of death. Similarly, in a 2020 study of red-tailed hawks conducted by a veterinary medicine professor Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, 100% of the birds studied tested positive for exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides.
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And it's not just wildlife at increased risk of danger from these chemicals. Pets can be exposed too, although usually for different reasons than wildlife. Rodenticides typically are manufactured as bait products, using enticing flavors to get the mice and rats to consume them. The problem is these same flavors are often enticing to our cats and dogs too, and if they consume them, they may suffer the same consequences as the rodents, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. If your pet has consumed an anticoagulant rodenticide, it should be taken to a veterinary clinic for examination and treatment within 60 to 72 hours of ingestion, the ASPCA advises.
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