Wartymcballs t1_jb82ylo wrote on March 7, 2023 at 3:18 AM

Reply to comment by jezra in Bald eagle rescued after eating rat poison in Massachusetts by ekser

It shouldn't have been in a place accessible by a non target animal like a bird in the first place, per the law and the label. Someone is gonna be in big fuckin trouble if they figure out who is tossing rat bait into the open like that.

FatassShrugged t1_jb84b01 wrote on March 7, 2023 at 3:29 AM

The bird ate a rat that ate the poison.

Wartymcballs t1_jb84h5d wrote on March 7, 2023 at 3:30 AM

Not sure what kinda rat poison they are using, but most would have to eat a lot of poisoned rodents in a short span to get secondary sickness nowadays. I use it for a living lol. Anyway, here come some new federal regulations!

beattyml1 t1_jb9fzp3 wrote on March 7, 2023 at 12:50 PM

As there should considering that rat contraceptive is just as effective but without the side effects on other animals and without the rats dying painful deaths.

beattyml1 t1_jb9gjgq wrote on March 7, 2023 at 12:55 PM

Also article directly counters your claim of needing to ingest numerous rodents and personally I’m going with the scientists studying the birds not a random person working for a company with a vested interest in rat poison.

Wartymcballs t1_jb9icww wrote on March 7, 2023 at 1:12 PM

It all depends on how big the predator is, how big the prey is, how much they consumed and was metabolized before predation. It doesn't magically kill anything that eats it or there'd be dead cats in every street of every city. The older generation of rodenticides were quite lethal to secondary ingestion though, that's for damn sure. Additionally, technically speaking, according to the manufacturer, the rodents are supposed to lose consciousness from the anti coagulant well before death, it isn't a pain inducer.

Also, the article is biased in the same way a company using a rodenticide is in the opposite direction. Sensationalism exists.