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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3590003" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>The issue with rat poison is that the old stuff had secondary kills, sometimes to pets that ate the dead carcasses. The industry has gone to poisons that kill by several different methods so the secondary kills don't occur. </p><p>There are five ways that rat poisons work to kill rats, and the speed at which they are effective varies. While those are working, they continue to eat. Make sure and keep the rat poison cubes secured by wire as has been mentioned. </p><p>So now you have options. Rat traps that may not work so well for you, a cat or cats which I hate because when they run out of rats they are the #1 predator of ground nesting birds.</p><p>I had a similar issue with mice and rats in a barn that were chewing tires. The long term solution was the poison cubes. The short term solution was two part. We have a large population of black rat snakes in our area. If I saw one, it was captured and transplanted which was solution #2. The quickest since I'm 45 miles away from that barn was to do a shock and awe with traps. They aren't expensive so there were about 20 or so mouse traps and a dozen rat traps set and baited at one time. </p><p>A couple of weeks passed and went back to the barn. Most of the traps had done their job. Reset them and a couple weeks later there were just a few mice and no rats. </p><p>The black snakes worked well for long term until winter when the rodents started back in looking to get out of the weather. Traps back out. </p><p>Here is the way rat poisons work today.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Death From Internal Bleeding (3 to 7 days)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Death From Heart Attack (3 to 4 days)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Death From Lung Failure (12 hours to 2 days)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Death From Central Nervous System Failure (14 hours to 4 days)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Death From Dehydration (3 to 5 days)</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3590003, member: 5412"] The issue with rat poison is that the old stuff had secondary kills, sometimes to pets that ate the dead carcasses. The industry has gone to poisons that kill by several different methods so the secondary kills don't occur. There are five ways that rat poisons work to kill rats, and the speed at which they are effective varies. While those are working, they continue to eat. Make sure and keep the rat poison cubes secured by wire as has been mentioned. So now you have options. Rat traps that may not work so well for you, a cat or cats which I hate because when they run out of rats they are the #1 predator of ground nesting birds. I had a similar issue with mice and rats in a barn that were chewing tires. The long term solution was the poison cubes. The short term solution was two part. We have a large population of black rat snakes in our area. If I saw one, it was captured and transplanted which was solution #2. The quickest since I'm 45 miles away from that barn was to do a shock and awe with traps. They aren't expensive so there were about 20 or so mouse traps and a dozen rat traps set and baited at one time. A couple of weeks passed and went back to the barn. Most of the traps had done their job. Reset them and a couple weeks later there were just a few mice and no rats. The black snakes worked well for long term until winter when the rodents started back in looking to get out of the weather. Traps back out. Here is the way rat poisons work today. [LIST] [*]Death From Internal Bleeding (3 to 7 days) [*]Death From Heart Attack (3 to 4 days) [*]Death From Lung Failure (12 hours to 2 days) [*]Death From Central Nervous System Failure (14 hours to 4 days) [*]Death From Dehydration (3 to 5 days) [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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