Timely warning - rat poison

ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
Had the same happen to my golden lab. We were putting a laying shed back together and the pest control jerk came to lay poison. Dopey shite cleaned his van out an a little red sachet of poison was left in the rubbish he chucked out, my young pup got it an we found her chewing it, rushed to vets, £300 lighter she was fine. Got it early. Pest control man got a bollocking but refused to pay. Lazy inconsiderate shite
 

kernowcluck

Member
Location
Cornwall
Hope your dog is OK @Jerry. I've just done my Rodenticide course in preparation for next year and they really focus on non-target species which include pets. It was longwinded but made me think. I am really careful about baiting, only use wheat based bait and lock the drums away, but it only takes a split second for the unexpected to happen.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Thanks all.

Really feeling weird at the moment. Just not right having him around and place feels empty. He is normally glued to me and sat at my feet when ever I am sat down.

Spoke to surgery at 9:30. They seem happy enough. They are dosing with Vit K and he's on a drip til morning. He's been dosed with activated charcoal. Got to ring in the morning again.

If he's ok then keeping him rested for a week with no risk of a cut or bruising is going to be a challenge. And yes @Poorbuthappy he is the springer you saw. He would happily run all day given the chance so slowing him down will be interesting.

Funny enough one of the reasons I use blocks is he will happily walk up to a pile of wheat or barley and munch away on like doggy cereal without the milk.

All bait goes in bait boxes but will make doubly certain from now he is no where near when setting them up and they are 200% secure.
 

kernowcluck

Member
Location
Cornwall
was it much hassle ?
how much did it cost ?
I did it on-line with FarmTrain , Pestecademy (sic) online. It's a modular course by AHDB called "Rodent Control on Farms" and is a LANTRA approvedaward. It was a lot of reading and a multiple choice test as verification of learning with a pass rate needed of >70% They e mail you your certification and it costs £60 up front and you only get one go for that fee.
 

glow worm

Member
Location
cornwall
Thanks all.lot

Really feeling weird at the moment. Just not right having him around and place feels empty. He is normally glued to me and sat at my feet when ever I am sat down.

Spoke to surgery at 9:30. They seem happy enough. They are dosing with Vit K and he's on a drip til morning. He's been dosed with activated charcoal. Got to ring in the morning again.

If he's ok then keeping him rested for a week with no risk of a cut or bruising is going to be a challenge. And yes @Poorbuthappy he is the springer you saw. He would happily run all day given the chance so slowing him down will be interesting.

Funny enough one of the reasons I use blocks is he will happily walk up to a pile of wheat or barley and munch away on like doggy cereal without the milk.

All bait goes in bait boxes but will make doubly certain from now he is no where near when setting them up and they are 200% secure.
Do let us know how he gets on. There must be an awful lot of people reading your story who really understands how you feel and how much your dog means to you. Good luck.
 

rjchapma

New Member
Location
East Yorkshire
I've recently done the rodenticide course. As has been said they're hot on non-target species protection. One thing that was mentioned is.that dogs don't taste the bitrex in the bait so need to be very careful with dogs around bait.
 

Dukes Fit

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
I lost one of my dogs to rat poison.

I was away from home for 2 days and he'd wandered along to my parents house. Mum was weeding her garden and he used to lie down in the flower beds right in the way for some attention, anyway he was carrying a bag around in his mouth and mum took it off him only to discover it was rat poison.

Straight to the vet and they dosed him with Vit K but said they couldn't do anything else for him. Poor bugger died the night I got back.

To this day we still don't know where he got the poison from as it was an old, old bag and not a kind my old man had ever used.
 

Robigus

Member
Thanks all.

Really feeling weird at the moment. Just not right having him around and place feels empty. He is normally glued to me and sat at my feet when ever I am sat down.

Spoke to surgery at 9:30. They seem happy enough. They are dosing with Vit K and he's on a drip til morning. He's been dosed with activated charcoal. Got to ring in the morning again.

If he's ok then keeping him rested for a week with no risk of a cut or bruising is going to be a challenge. And yes @Poorbuthappy he is the springer you saw. He would happily run all day given the chance so slowing him down will be interesting.

Funny enough one of the reasons I use blocks is he will happily walk up to a pile of wheat or barley and munch away on like doggy cereal without the milk.

All bait goes in bait boxes but will make doubly certain from now he is no where near when setting them up and they are 200% secure.
I hope thing work out for you. We once had a lab that we think picked up slug bait, it was a very tense wait.

If I may tag on to your thread a warning about chocolate and dogs. I've never taken this too seriously and still give mine a little bit occasionally on a busy day. But a friend who had a large ridge back type cross came home with her shopping and dumped it on the floor while she went back for the baby in the child seat. A tin of cocoa rolled out of the shopping bag and the dog started to lick it up. By the time she got in it had started to fit and died despite the best efforts of the vet.
 

Alicecow

Member
Location
Connacht
I hope thing work out for you. We once had a lab that we think picked up slug bait, it was a very tense wait.

If I may tag on to your thread a warning about chocolate and dogs. I've never taken this too seriously and still give mine a little bit occasionally on a busy day. But a friend who had a large ridge back type cross came home with her shopping and dumped it on the floor while she went back for the baby in the child seat. A tin of cocoa rolled out of the shopping bag and the dog started to lick it up. By the time she got in it had started to fit and died despite the best efforts of the vet.

Wow. I'd never have thought that could happen, and certainly not that fast. Just shows how careful you have to be. My old dog pinched, and ate, a 200g bar of Cadbury's chocolate and still lived to be 17. :eek:
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Plain high cocoa chocolate is the dangerous one, Cadburys milk much less so.
Single feed modern poisons are much more dangerous than the old warfarin baits.
Sheepdog pup had yen for Jaguar blocks. Best DIY Immediate emergency treatment is to get a wad of washing soda crystals, mixed to a paste, down the dog to make it sick. Then straight to vet. Key is getting poison back out whilst it is still in the stomach and not gone further down digestive tract.
@Jerry, hope dog is OK today.
 
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Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Well just picked him up from the vet.

He seems to have behaved well over night and seemed bright when I went into the kennels to get him.

Gave a him a little run when we got home and he wee'd for England. Over night drip must have flushed him a little.

He is certainly not 100% yet as he has collapsed on his bed for a snooze.

But am so relieved. Will make a fuss of him for a while and keep a close eye on his wee, poo and gums for any sign of bleeding.

Thanks for all the good wishes.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
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7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Ah, a springer spaniel. We nearly lost ours years ago when she managed to pull a plastic tub of slug pellets off a shelf, and decided to chew it.:( Whisked off to the vets and made a full recovery.:)
 
this year invested in the plastic feeders for rat bate from spaldings
they are good at keeping poisen dry and avoiding non target poisoning
they also save on poisen as it stays fresh

imho bate bags and loose blocks are more prone to dog eating than proper dispensers of treated wheat

one vets bill would pay for enough for 20 years use
 

spikeislander

Member
Location
bedfordshire
Glad he is on the mend. I am a springer nut they are a special dog! I had one carry a satchet around wasn't sure if she had eaten any rang vet he was an Aussie and said at home there isn't enough time to get them to the vets so he said stick some soda crystals down her throat so I did and she was empty in about a minute. A handy tip really.
 

Clive Tee

Member
Location
Shropshire
Can they do a vitamin K / INR blood test like they do with humans on Warfarin? That'd tell you if there's a problem I guess. Doubt there's a test though?????

Hope he's OK.
 

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