Pet Friendly Rat Poison

Rentokil can advise.

This is known as 'secondary poisoning'. Unfortunately I think cats would be more likely to catch a dying rat that was slowed by the poison than eat a dead one, so a poison that deactivates over time wouldn't be much use for protecting the cat. The wikipedia article at

Joe

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Dogs for certain go straight for the arse hole of any caught prey.

I dont know of any safe poison, I think the solution is trapment rather than poison. Breakback traps kill quickly, a lot faster than poison. They can be placed inside boxes with small entry holes to keep bigger animals out.

Rentokil use poison, so I'm not sure if they'd be any use.

The best option though is to locate and block all entry holes. Anything pencil size or bigger can allow rodents in.

Antidotes are only given once you know the animal's ill and have worked out why, so are far from a safe solution.

NT

I have a very similar problem and used a squirrel trap to catch and terminate (with a lump of wood) each rat caught. Next door just shoots the buggers !

I use one of these against mice, never had a rat problem so can't comment, but on mice it is first class:

Yep we seem to have an epidemic of the buggers this time of the year But they do make good target practice

I posted on a site in the country concerned and I have found that humane traps are available, although the rat may not be humanely treated. At least I wont need to put poison down now.

Kevin

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I have a pet rat.

I was just wondering that. Most rat poisons just make them bleed to death. I do not see any way one can achieve a poison just aimed at rats. Traps I think are the way to go, or do like they do in some parts of the world. You move out for a week taking all livestock with you, and they cone along and fill up all the holes out of the building then fill it with poison gas for a day, then come in and get rid of all the dead bodies, but you can find that even then there could be a smell of decomposing rat several weeks on.... Brian

That's what Zyklon B was originally designed for.

Here's a solution>just be aware of the price of gas powered air rifles and decent sights.

You'll be looking for the Rat friendly Pet poison.

:)