Battling wit' Luis Ratones

[RandomGemini]

I had to read this one out loud to the family at the dinner table. What a great story!

I don't want to rain on the hilarity, but I have to add a word of caution to you, because it doesn't feel right for me not to do so. I would advise you to hire a professional and have the offending rodents trapped, do not use poisons or baits.

Just over a year ago, my 2 year old Labrador, that I had raised from a young pup of 8 weeks old, died suddenly. He was the picture of health. My vet was convinced that someone had fed him warfarin and we'd had a recent incident where someone had been tossing meatballs loaded with rat poison into the yards of known dog owners, so we reported it. It didn't take long to find out that my next door neighbors had put down commercial grade rat bait, which was mostly warfarin, in their garage to control mice and Mugen had been catching the mice in his own yard and was swallowing them whole. The rodents eat way more of the bait than is required to kill them. The amount they eat is usually more than enough to kill an 80 pound dog.

[kindrag23]

Originally Posted by RandomGemini

I had to read this one out loud to the family at the dinner table. What a great story!

I don't want to rain on the hilarity, but I have to add a word of caution to you, because it doesn't feel right for me not to do so. I would advise you to hire a professional and have the offending rodents trapped, do not use poisons or baits.

Just over a year ago, my 2 year old Labrador, that I had raised from a young pup of 8 weeks old, died suddenly. He was the picture of health. My vet was convinced that someone had fed him warfarin and we'd had a recent incident where someone had been tossing meatballs loaded with rat poison into the yards of known dog owners, so we reported it. It didn't take long to find out that my next door neighbors had put down commercial grade rat bait, which was mostly warfarin, in their garage to control mice and Mugen had been catching the mice in his own yard and was swallowing them whole. The rodents eat way more of the bait than is required to kill them. The amount they eat is usually more than enough to kill an 80 pound dog.

First pardon the language....but I am a dog person of thw highest order.....WHAT SICK SON OF A BITCH THOUGHT THAT TORTURE METHOD UP!!! That is a slow and painful death....what about an aspirin? I know that it disolves in their mouths an. It kills them....not sure what may do to a puppy...im sorry for your loss. That does stink...

---------- Post added at 10:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:15 PM ----------

O dear God this week thus far has been so hectic and stressful this just about killed me I was laughing so hars. See I would do the opposite of hunting at first I would run screaming and leave my dog to destroy it...okay could yous set up mid sized live traps to catch the little monsters the exstinguish them from there? That way maybe ummm PootzandFartz wont be able to get in it?

---------- Post added at 10:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:18 PM ----------

Oh and the pootzandfartz is a cutie patootie