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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyThor View Post
    He 'disposes' of them humanely and leaves the carcasses out for the carrion birds and animals. They are a problem all around our neighborhood (borders BLM open range land, lots of volcanic rock fences, horse/hay barns, etc) but the only other trap that seems to catch them is the glue traps which are awful. They'll tear their own backend off to escape one of those. We also don't use poison because of all the farm dogs in the neighborhood - don't want them to poison themselves by eating a dead poisoned rat. Since Milo seems to prove that rats are tasty. Ew.
    Good. Glad he "disposes" of them and yeah, glue traps are awful.

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    Gross.

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    Hope he is ok but I can't imagine one puked up rat would be enough poison (if there was any involved at all) to make him sick.

    Quote Originally Posted by Labradorks View Post
    OMG, that is so gross! I hate rats so much but am also fascinated by them.

    There are different types of poisons and the newer ones do not respond to vitamin K. I also understand that a dog has to eat quite a few poisoned mice/rats to be affected by the poison.

    Rats don't travel far from their homes (100-300 feet) when looking for food, so you could also ask neighbors if they have put out poisons for peace of mind. Did he chew the rat or just gulp it? Do you think he ate it dead or did he kill and then consume it? Might be worth putting out some dog-safe traps.
    Penny got into some mouse poison but after a call to animal poison control and going over the type of poison, it would have taken TONS to get anything near sick. It killed by causing bloat in mice (which is terribly sad!). We gave Pen stuff to puke, in the end it didn't look like she ate much if any at all. A stressful afternoon.

    I had rats and mice at my previous apartment. So gross. I had the hardest time with the rat traps (so big, I had a hard time setting them up, plus placing them in a one bedroom apartment to catch anything). I tried a glue trap once, and sure enough, caught one of them. It was a long long night as I couldn't pick up the trap. Built a ramp and use kitchen tools to eventually drown it. never used one of those again.

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    I would look at the positive side, he would probably do very well in the dog sport Barn Hunt. Where the go through obstacles to find rats hidden in barns. The rats are in secure cages so they can't get to them but sounds like you have a good rat finder.

    Barn Hunt Association

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