Poisons Used to Kill Rodents Have Safer Alternatives
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."


Snap traps instantly kill the
Snap traps instantly kill the animal 90% of the time.
Those odds are a lot better than 100% misery/suffering on a glue trap!