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During my stretch in the pest control industry I have been asked a lot of questions on how the rodent poison actually works. Some people think it makes them thirsty and they tour looking for water and some think it makes them swell up and explode. The truth is both of these are kind of right and occur as a by product of the poison but they are not the factual cause why the rat dies. 90% of the mouse poisons on the market today are called as anticoagulants. An anticoagulant is a product which inhibits the clotting factor of the blood by stopping the production of a protein called thrombin. As a rat walks around during its daily life, it stumbles into objects plus the movement of its limbs causes tiny capillary veins to split and fracture. Once this happens the mouse will start to lose blood. The blood will seep out of its veins to just under its skin, which is what a bruise fundamentally is in humans, however the bleeding in this instance will not stop so eventually the rat will die of internal bleeding. While this is going on the rodent will start to fell drowsy and will look to voyage back to its nest where it feels comfortable. It is the same in humans if you feel ill and tired where do you go? yes to bed. Once the rat is back in its nest it will stay there until death occurs. All of this occurs with little pain to the rodent. All it feels is sleepy. There are other poisons on sale which anesthetise the rat or causes leaching of calcium from the rodents bone structure but anticoagulants are the most widely used in the world whether it is a first generation anticoagulant such as warfarin or a second generation one such as bromadiolone. When you are using poisons to control infestations of rodents it is also wise to lay the bait to marry up with their feeding practice. A rat will take a small amount of bait from many places throughout the night where as rats will take all their food from one or two large feeding sites. With this the case when baiting for mice use a lot of small bait points and for rats use one or 2 large bait points. Don't forget that a mouse will only eat around 3g of food a day and a rat will eat 30g a day so make sure you are putting enough food down for them! Should you not then the poison will start to lose it effect especially when using anticoagulants as these rely on the rodent building up a lethal dose over 5 feeds before death occurs. If this interrupted then you will lose the effect and you will need to start again
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