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>SET UP A FEEDER JUST THE >SQUIRRELS CAN GET IN AND FEED
>THEM RAT POSION
>Will anything that eats the bodies then get >killed by the rat poison? And there's the rub--we are on 2 acres and have
used DeCon liberally in the past. I was always cautious--stashing it in
rafters, under work benches. Well, just before Christmas our 5 month old
American Water Spaniel had a "near death experience" with the stuff.
We still are not sure where she mixed it up--and I am supicious that it was
consumption of a dead carcass. Fortunately, there is a positive test for
the stuff, so we eventually figured out what was going on. But the
experience left us a lot more suspicious of the stuff (and about $1500.
poorer)--now we are a DeCon-free zone. And we are considering a couple of
barn cats for a new control system. We were always under the
impression that once digested by initial contact, nothing happened in subsequent
consumptions. I do not know. Just our wake-up
call.
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