Re: [CH] Decon

Dave Drum (xrated@cityscape.net)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:46:36 -0600

Byron Bromley wrote:
> 
> Had a dog eat some Decon once, Took him to a Vet
> Vet said decon is nothing more than salty grain.
> 
> Mice, Rats and horses can not "barf"
> The grain is like rice, add water and it expands
> 
> Doesn't work on Squirrels, a least not the ones around here.

Your vet is full of crap then. You'd better look into getting another
vet if you really care for your animals. D-Con active ingredient is
warfarin, a well know blood thinner. Warfarin is prescribed for (some)
heart patients to let their damaged hearts pump their thinned out
blood more easily.

It kills small rodents by thinning their blood to the point that their
veins and capillaries cannot hold the blood and they literally bleed
to death through their skins. A dog eating a single mouse or squirrel
that has croaked from D-Con ingestion likely would not die itself.
But, it could. And if the pooch ate several dosed rodents... well, is
your pepper patch worth your pedigreed purp? 

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