Rat Poison and Foxes

Ding Dong

I need to put down some rat poison but Im worried as we have a fox and a hedgehog that sometimes visits the garden abd Im worried they mite find the poison and eat it. Is it alrite to leave the rat poison down in a bait station. The fox wouldnt be too harmed if he got to it would he? The hedgehog would probably alot worse affected?

EP90

Bait station, commercial or homemade, is the only way to go. The size of the hole or tunnel restricts what can get at the bait. As long as the station is well ‘nailed’ down so other animals or wind can’t overturn and empty the contents it can be left in place.
If the bait/poison is the larger blocks it should be broken down to small pieces to stop a rat from dragging it out of the station and maybe abandoning it in the open.
Poison is harmful to all animals, small animals being fatally affected first, depending on amount ingested it will be fatal to larger animals to. It can also be accumulative, small amounts eaten numerous times can be just as fatal.
Be careful and it will be fine.

Pretzill

also bear in mind that if a fox or hawk or some other animal eats the poisoned rat they can also be affected trapping near a rat run might be a better solution tho they are clever critters and it might take a while to catch them

amtw

Your obviously worried about your local wild life a lot of which can be very badly affected by rat poison. Birds of prey are routinely poisoned when they eat rats that have been poisoned. We researched this on the web and came across a good solution. If you use a mix of wall-fillers (the white powdery stuff you buy for filling holes in plaster) salt and poridge flakes. The rats eat this mix and if you leave some water for them to drink the whole thing solidifies in their stomach. If the foxes or birds of prey then eat the dead rat they won't eat the hardened plaster. Don't know about hedgehogs but I'm sure you can arrange it in some way that they can't reach it.

Qualitymark

Pepsi or Coke sugar-free versions act as contraceptive to rats, and they love them. Leave a few bowls out under cover at all times for a few months and your rat problem will gradually decrease then cease.

Gloomtastic!

Qualitymark wrote: »

Pepsi or Coke sugar-free versions act as contraceptive to rats, and they love them. Leave a few bowls out under cover at all times for a few months and your rat problem will gradually decrease then cease.

You're kidding right?

maringo

Another urban legend

Qualitymark

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

You're kidding right?

No, a friend who farms in the southwest ended a longtime rat problem by this method.