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Poisoning mice and rats is problematic in that the rodents become toxic to all the wildlife that eats them once they become sick or die. Poisoning rodents results in catastrophic deaths and decline in numbers of native rodent predators such as raptor birds, kookaburras, butcher birds, pythons etc. anything that eats a rodent that has been poisoned with current technology poisons will die and once the rodent infestation is over there will be no natural ecochain predators alive to deal with the reduced numbers of rebreeding rodents and there will be another infestation until predators rebreed. Which takes years.
Even farmer’s cats and dogs will die if they consume poisoned rodents. This is why the NSW Farmers Association yesterday asked the government to rethink its strategy of rolling out many thousands of liters of rodent poison to farmers in NSW. The farmers association requested the NSW Government to at least consider less toxic poisons such as the lower toxicity warfarin based rodent poisons to protect the natural wild life.
The warfarin based poisons are not sold at Bunnings. If you’re buying Bunnings based rodent poisons like RatSak then you are potentially killing our native wildlife or your Neighbour’s pets. Please at least research something called secondary poisoning before you buy rodent poisons.
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