Poisons Used to Kill Rodents Have Safer Alternatives

Poisons Used to Kill Rodents Have Safer Alternatives

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Learn more Support RATS and the Hungry Owl Project. Log on to their websites to find out what you can do to limit secondary rodenticide poisoning in your area.

Take Action Don’t buy baits containing second-generation rodenticides. And if you see them on store shelves, urge managers to remove them. If they resist, give them a photocopy of this article.

Be heard Tell the EPA to cancel general-use registration of second-generation rodenticides. Email: Wasem.Russell@epamail.epa.gov. And cite Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0718.

This story originally ran in the January-February 2013 issue as "Building a Better Mousetrap."

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Ted Williams

Ted Williams is freelance writer.

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I’m not sure you “should” use

Submitted by Ted Williams (not verified) on Thu, 2013/01/17 - 2:20pm.

I’m not sure you “should” use first-generation poisons, though I did mention them as an “alternative” and as specifically as possible. They are, again, baits with these active ingredients: chlorophacinone, diphacinone, diphacinone sodium salt, warfarin, and warfarin sodium salt.

Shame on you for advocating

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2013/01/16 - 7:55pm.

Shame on you for advocating glue traps and drowning. Neither are even remotely humane. Glue traps especially are nothing more than slow torture. Snap traps and electric zappers are the only "humane" options.

Apparently you missed my

Submitted by Ted Williams (not verified) on Thu, 2013/01/17 - 11:07am.

Apparently you missed my caveat about glue traps. As I wrote, you need to use them only inside, check them frequently and dispatch the rodents for humane purposes. Snap traps frequently catch rodents by the feet, and they starve to death. Which death would you say was more humane, 20 seconds in the water or a week in a snap trap?

Snap traps instantly kill the

Submitted by Ben (not verified) on Thu, 2013/01/24 - 12:52am.

Snap traps instantly kill the animal 90% of the time.

Those odds are a lot better than 100% misery/suffering on a glue trap!

Glue Traps

Submitted by Ted Williams (not verified) on Fri, 2013/01/25 - 1:16pm.

Ben: Why let a rat or mouse suffer on a glue trap? You don't need to, as I've explained. No sure why you find this so complicated. Personally, I prefer snap traps because I think they work better. But I check them often and promptly dispatch the leg-caught mice.

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