Rats can bite us, but they do not poison us. They are not venomous creatures.
They poisoned the rats with rat poisoning.
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it was poisoned with rat killer
If it was still alive, just watch him for a couple days to be sure the rat wasn't poisoned. Otherwise, don't sweat it. Rat is good food.
Most rat poison prevents the blood from clotting. the rats bleed out internally.
No, rat poison is an anticoagulant (it causes them to bleed to death after getting into a fight with another rat). Long ago rat poison contained arsenic, but it has never contained cyanide. The switch to an anticoagulant was done because it is safer.
vitamin k has to do with blood coagulation. Why dont you take your dog to the vet instead ? A2 You presume that the poisoned rat died from a coumarin derivitive which causes the rat to die from internal hemorrhaging. There are only a few rat poisons that still use coumarin (warfarin). In any event, because of the difference in body weight, it is unlikely that the dog received a lethal dose from eating one rat. As the first answer recommends, take the remains of the rat, the dog, and the label or container of the rat poison to the vet and let the vet take it from there.
Yes, the dog can die if it eats a poisoned rat. The toxins are still present in the rat, and can affect the dog quite quickly. It would need to be taken to a veterinarian immediately.
Pick a bottle and put it aside, if these steps don't lead you to find the poisoned bottle, you'll know that the bottle you put aside is poisoned. Make groups of three bottles each. Let one lab rat taste of each of those three. If a rat drops dead, you'll now have narrowed your search to three bottles. So let's say we have lab rats A B C and D. The bottles are numbered from 1 to 13. I put bottle 13 aside. I let A drink from bottles 1, 2 and 3. Lab rat B drinks from bottles 4, 5 and 6. I let C drink from bottles 7, 8 and 9, while lab rat D drinks from 10, 11 and 12. If no lab rats die during this part of the test, you'll know that bottle 13 is poisonous. Say lab rat A dies. I can now conclude that one of the bottles 1 through 3 is poisoned. So i feed lab rat B from bottle 1, lab rat C from bottle 2 and lab rat D from bottle 3. The lab rat that dies, had the poisoned bottle. If B dies, it was bottle 1 that was poisoned. Alternatively. Feed each rat a sip from another bottle of wine until one drops dead, you will now have found your poisoned bottle. Alternatively. Live dangerous and drink 12 bottles of wine. You survived? You are now officially bad-ass!
If all ten poisoned bottles are in the first batch of ten, then on the first try, all rats will die and you'd know. If all ten poisoned bottles are in the last batch of ten, then on the 99th try you would know, as no rats had died. You wouldn't have to try the 100th time. The minimum number of tries, in the worst case scenario, is 99.
If they begin to feel pain and realize they have been poisoned, they may try to drink water and regurgitate in order to rinse out their stomach. Sadly, most rat poison is painful and effective and this does not help much. Rat poison does not need water to be activated, nor does access to water increase a rat's chances of survival if it has eaten much of it.
Using bleach to kill a rat is not recommended and is inhumane. There are more humane and effective ways to address a rat infestation, such as using traps or contacting a pest control professional.