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Originally Posted by Maci_girl  It is quite possible that the box was already empty as it had been hidden there for a while and the vet didn't really find any pellets when he induced vomiting. It gave my mom quite the scare though. I will make sure my mom knows that the poison can be passed from a rat or mouse to any animal who eats it. Don't know if she thought about that. Though our dogs aren't allowed to roam around outside, they are always on a leash or directly supervised since there is no fenced in yard area. They could find a mouse inside though, so that is something I should warn my mom about since my sister's dog still lives there right now. Thanks for the warning! |
I let mine out into my double fenced back yard, with one of us in close attendance! One day, They ran out like they always do, and were running happily all over the yard, chasing each other, then WHOA!! FOUND SOMETHING NEW RIGHT HERE!!!EVERYBODY, COME QUICK!!! 5 of them quickly circled around something they were investigating in the grass....thinking it was, at worse, a frog and didnt want them getting all that nasty foam in their mouths trying to play with that frog, I rushed over to save the frog...IT WAS A RAT!!! A RAT THAT LOOKED DRUNK AND WAS DEFINITELY VERY SICK...DYING! I put the rat in a shoe box and called animal control...told them I may have a rabid mammal of some kind, (wasnt sure if I told them it was a rat, if they would come...)they took the rat which was dead by that time....did tests on it and notified me it was NOT rabid, but dying from rat poisoning....they are the ones that told me if the Yorkies had eaten any of the rat, they would have in turn, been poisoned! and Yorkies are ratters!!! That is what God pays them to do!!!!