This is what a blue rat poison cake looks like. If you find one, pls properly throw it away in the trash, so no other wildlife gets harmed.

It thins the creature’s blood gradually, to the point they bleed internally to an agonizing death. Beyond cruel. Please, never use them. Ask your exterminator to use birthControl rat bait stations instead. The goal is to co-exist, not kill them ruthlessly. Killing them will boost the birth rate and make them thrive more—a never ending catch 22.

#BanRatPoison

I don’t know if rat poison to be blamed for the dead squirrel above.

With that said, the problem with rat poison is that rats take the chunks and leave them in the area where other animals can get to them. Squirrels find and bury them. Also, some people place the chunks around their house where any animal or child can get to.

We live in the city neighborhood where houses are budding against one another. Several years ago, a neighbor from the next street over placed naked chunks of blue rat poison cakes in *our* condo yard behind their house. We have small children that live here. It’s a good thing we noticed and got rid of them before anything happened.

Anyway, don’t be an asshole, don’t buy/use rat poisons. Rats deserve better, and our respect.

#BanRatPoison

Please never buy or use rat poison. It is one of the cruelest deaths wildlife suffers—they bleed internally to death. It also kill predators.

There’s an alternative—birthControl rat bait—available in most US states.

Also, I’ve recently read that the trace of rat poison is already seeping into our drinking water in some places.

#BanRatPoison #rodenticide

The fish in rivers are contaminated with rat poison—this means fish like salmons are contaminated. Also, all rivers eventually connect to sea. If humans don’t stop using rat poisons, all marine animals would be contaminated. Probably they already have been. Yet another reason to avoid seafood. Everything is connected—tangled in the web of life on earth.

#BanRatPoison #fish #seafood #GoPlantBased

The hawk saw me as if to say, “oh, not you again! There went my supper!” Well, it wasn’t my fault, MrCooper. Better luck next time.

Then, I started thinking… maybe, the hawk knows that the animals here are poison-free??

#BanRatPoison

… thought the hawk-in-motion photo looked cool, but these might look better at first glance?

Anyway, NewEngland Wildlife Centers recently sent out a letter that most cases of raptors admitted to their hospitals are due to secondhand rodenticide poisoning, and they need help. https://www.newildlife.org/

Pls. leave the rodents alone. Let the nature’s pros like raptors take care.

#raptors #hawks #BanRatPoison #wildlife