Anticoagulant Rodenticide poison kills thousands of wild animals and pets every year. The poisons are traveling up the food chain, endangering more and more wildlife. Documentation in California shows that the problem of rodenticides moving up the food chain and affecting non-target wildlife is widespread.
Here lies the problem; Hawks, foxes, owls, raccoons and coyotes prey on rodents as a source of food. When they eat the poisoned rodent, it TOO will succumb to the poison and die!
Apartment Property Management companies & HOA's are two of the biggest culprits for using poison bait boxes. The Verge Apartment complex situated close to a rural area and river is a 444 unit building constructed in 2015. Since the construction of this building there have been sightings of sick coyotes in the vicinity. There are several POISON BAIT BOXES situated around the perimeter of the buildings. Exposure to rodenticides in coyotes can lead to an increased susceptibility to mange, which is evidently what these coyotes are suffering from.
There is NO SAFE PLACE for these poisons in our environment. Let wildlife do their part in keeping the rodent population down, as nature intended! Let's not POISON THEIR FOOD!
Updates
May 15, 2020
I spent the morning walking the perimeter of the complex again and seeing those bait boxes still in place feels like a personal gut punch. Each of you sharing your own stories about local wildlife has kept me going through the frustration of the current silence from management.
May 15, 2020
Seeing this grow gives me hope for the coyotes and owls I see struggling near my home. I never expected this many people to care as much as I do about keeping our local food chain safe from these chemicals.
17 Comments
Please stop the poisonings of our Wildlife. It is destroying the Ecosystem, & it’s having an impact on US! STOP
The endless torture that wildlife endure after being poisoned must come to an end. The collateral damage to other species in the food chain due to poisoning is also something that people could change by banning all poisons.
Why are people so dumb and our government so lax when it comes to such dangerous, destructive products? BAN THIS STUFF!!
What a horrendous way to kill wildlife, hawks, owls, just about everything that eats these poisons whether directly or indirectly. An owl will eat an average of 12 mice a night, and also there is feeding their young that are always hungry. One mouse that has taken Anticoagulant Poison bait will kill a whole family of young owlets when fed to them by a parent, plus the parent will get very sick unable to hunt and die. The same with hawks and other birds of prey. Your dog or cat gets sick, bleeding from the nose & mouth, it is dying in agony. Populations of wildlife are already in decline due to habitat loss and many other factors, they shouldn’t be subjected to these Anticoagulant Poisons, it’s wrong and immoral. Do the right thing and stop these poisons, Save the Wildlife.
There is NO need for using RODENTICIDE poisons in our communities when we HAVE effective eco friendly safe products. Its education and respect for nature, pets and our families. Its a poison that unnecessarily kills thousands of innocent wildlife due to ignorance.
No poisons!
Pls stop hurting animals!
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Anticoagulant Rodenticide poison kills thousands of wild animals and pets every year. The poisons are traveling up the food chain, endangering more and more wildlife. Documentation in California shows that the problem of rodenticides moving up the food chain and affecting non-target wildlife is widespread.
Here lies the problem; Hawks, foxes, owls, raccoons and coyotes prey on rodents as a source of food. When they eat the poisoned rodent, it TOO will succumb to the poison and die!
Apartment Property Management companies & HOA's are two of the biggest culprits for using poison bait boxes. The Verge Apartment complex situated close to a rural area and river is a 444 unit building constructed in 2015. Since the construction of this building there have been sightings of sick coyotes in the vicinity. There are several POISON BAIT BOXES situated around the perimeter of the buildings. Exposure to rodenticides in coyotes can lead to an increased susceptibility to mange, which is evidently what these coyotes are suffering from.
There is NO SAFE PLACE for these poisons in our environment. Let wildlife do their part in keeping the rodent population down, as nature intended! Let's not POISON THEIR FOOD!
Updates
May 15, 2020
I spent the morning walking the perimeter of the complex again and seeing those bait boxes still in place feels like a personal gut punch. Each of you sharing your own stories about local wildlife has kept me going through the frustration of the current silence from management.
May 15, 2020
Seeing this grow gives me hope for the coyotes and owls I see struggling near my home. I never expected this many people to care as much as I do about keeping our local food chain safe from these chemicals.
17 Comments
Kill the rats with traps rather than poison. We need healthy coyote populations in particular.
Please stop the poisonings of our Wildlife. It is destroying the Ecosystem, & it’s having an impact on US! STOP
The endless torture that wildlife endure after being poisoned must come to an end. The collateral damage to other species in the food chain due to poisoning is also something that people could change by banning all poisons.
Why are people so dumb and our government so lax when it comes to such dangerous, destructive products? BAN THIS STUFF!!
What a horrendous way to kill wildlife, hawks, owls, just about everything that eats these poisons whether directly or indirectly. An owl will eat an average of 12 mice a night, and also there is feeding their young that are always hungry. One mouse that has taken Anticoagulant Poison bait will kill a whole family of young owlets when fed to them by a parent, plus the parent will get very sick unable to hunt and die. The same with hawks and other birds of prey. Your dog or cat gets sick, bleeding from the nose & mouth, it is dying in agony. Populations of wildlife are already in decline due to habitat loss and many other factors, they shouldn’t be subjected to these Anticoagulant Poisons, it’s wrong and immoral. Do the right thing and stop these poisons, Save the Wildlife.
There is NO need for using RODENTICIDE poisons in our communities when we HAVE effective eco friendly safe products. Its education and respect for nature, pets and our families. Its a poison that unnecessarily kills thousands of innocent wildlife due to ignorance.
No poisons!
Pls stop hurting animals!
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Kill the rats with traps rather than poison. We need healthy coyote populations in particular.