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<p class=MsoNormal>Kara asked me a question about mouse bait poisoning a dog
who eats a dead mouse. This is the answer based on my years in pest
control and personal experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>_____<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The answer depends on the dog, their overall health, and how
many mice they eat. My Sassy ate the block style bait straight (no dead
mouse), and ate more than just a couple whole blocks. We had a bucket of
bait in the house to remind hubby to bait under the house, and the lid got
popped off. Talk about stupid humans! We took her to the vet, made
her vomit, gave her a big vitamin K injection and put her on vitamin k pills
for about a week. She is just fine because I caught her in the act of
eating one. She didn't have time to digest it. Thank GOD! The bait
is no longer kept in the house even for an hour.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>A mouse will eat a little bit of bait. If it is
dying or dead, it has already processed the bait. The bait is designed to
act well after the mouse has eaten it, because if a mouse eats a little of something
and gets sick right away from it, they will never eat that thing again. They
might survive and then reject further baiting attempts. They have to eat enough
to digest the poison and get it into their blood stream. If a healthy dog
eats a mouse that ate bait, you should not have a problem with secondary
poisoning. You would have more worry of the dog getting tapeworm from
eating the mouse, as our Pom puppy did from a dead squirrel. Tapeworm is
very difficult to detect, because they don't shed segments in every poop.
We got lucky to catch it when we did.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>If the dog has a bleeding disorder, such as Von Willendbrands
disease, you might have something to worry about. The active ingredient
in rat bait is an anticoagulant. It causes organ bleeding in the primary
animal. If your old or sick dog eats a dead or dying mouse with active
anticoagulant in its system, the amount would be very small, and would likely
not harm the dog, but, if you have an elderly dog with compromised health, you
never know for sure. Just do what you usually do, inspect anything that
they put in their mouth that you didn't give them. I am sure that you,
like almost every good basset owner, do that already. Generally, mice do not
want to come out of hiding when they are sick, so you will eventually find the
dead, flattened remains behind your dryer or somewhere like that. The
good news is that the bait also causes the mouse to dry up rather than rot and
stink. Your hound might smell it, but usually you won't. If your
dog seems to fixate on the dryer or dishwasher, you might have a live or dead
mouse behind it. Cats don’t generally bother with something already
dead that doesn't move, so if the cat fixates on a corner or dishwasher, you
can pretty much guess that the mouse is ALIVE and MOVING about. Our old
cat used to tell us before we knew that we had a live mouse under the
dishwasher. She never told us when we had a dead one, that was left up to
the dogs to find.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Love and drool to all those who have lost a furkid, or
have sick ones. Special drool to Mike with MRSA, and Elder Clara.
Get well soon!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Gaylene<o:p></o:p></p>
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