Please understand: poison doesn’t just kill rats and mice. It also kills raptors that feed on rodents, cats and dogs, and even songbirds that eat insects contaminated with it.

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As rat poison spreads through these hapless rodents, it bioaccumulates, becoming more toxic over time. The rodents are weakened, slowly dying an agonizing death, and become easy prey for their natural predators.

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Raptors and other wildlife that hunt rodents are then exposed to these devastating levels of poison, falling victim to secondary poisoning. Adults may bring contaminated prey back to their young, killing an entire family—or die themselves, leaving the young helpless.

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Sometimes the poison doesn’t directly kill the unintended victim, but leaves them weak and vulnerable, making them easy prey for another predator—and spreading the toxin further through the food chain.

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So please do not use rodenticides!