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[4] [5] This phenomenon of poison shyness is the rationale for poisons that kill only after multiple doses. Besides being directly toxic to the mammals that ingest them, including dogs, cats, and humans, many rodenticides present a secondary poisoning risk to animals that hunt or scavenge the dead corpses of rats. [6]
Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison.In recent years, it has become one of the world's most widely used pesticides.It is typically used as a rodenticide, but is also used to control larger pests such as possums.
Family Dollar Stores was this week ordered to pay $41.6 million for using a rodent-infested warehouse to distribute food, cosmetics and medical devices to more than 400 stores across the South.
d-CON is an America brand of rodent control products, which is distributed and owned in the United States by the UK-based consumer goods company Reckitt. The brand includes traps and baits for use around the home for trapping and killing some rats and mice. As of 2015, bait products use first-generation vitamin K anticoagulants as poison.
Although cats are obligate carnivores, vegetarian and vegan cat food are preferred by owners uncomfortable with feeding animal products to their pets. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine has come out against vegetarian cat and dog food for health reasons. Cats require high levels of taurine in their diet.
“Me being the breadwinner hurt him. He wanted me staying with the boys, going to football and soccer practice,” says Di-Key. “When he got Amazon—OK, this is something he can retire from. Something he can work his way up.” The arrival of an Amazon warehouse in Chester felt a bit like the opening of a Ford plant might have a century ...
Aconitine was the poison used by George Henry Lamson in 1881 to murder his brother-in-law in order to secure an inheritance. Lamson had learned about aconitine as a medical student from professor Robert Christison , who had taught that it was undetectable—but forensic science had improved since Lamson's student days.
When a New York bank manager wanted her brother-in-law dead, she tried hiring his longtime friend for the job and then planned to hire a hitman for $10,000, according to court documents.
