dog food poisoning

hi i'm dr. adrienne mulligan of camp verdeveterinary clinic in arizona and i'm here today to talk to you about rat poison on behalfof expertvillage.com. rat poison is the number one poison that people purposely put out tokill vermin and sometimes they purposely put out to kill annoying neighborhood dogs andthat is a really really sad situation. the thing about rat poison is it comes in manyshapes and sizes usually it is blueish these are blocks but there are blue grains thatcome in a box that shake and they taste very good so rats would eat them and mice wouldeat them. the problem is it makes dogs eat them and almost every single case that i everhad of rat poisoning the owner has sworn to me that the rat poison was no where or thedog could get to it and so believe me no matter

where you put rat poison it is not safe inyour house, in your garage, in your yard your dog will find it. it will not act immediately.it will have no symptoms right in the begin. if you see your dog eat some then this isa prime time to dump so hydrogen peroxide a teaspoon or two down his throat and gethim to throw it up and if he throws up blueish greenish stuff then you know you got him toget rid of some of it. the good news is there is antidote which is vitamin k but your veterinarianhas to administer this. now rat poison the thing you need to know is it may not causeany symptoms if you don't see your dog eat it or you don't come upon your rat poisonpile disappear when you think that it shouldn't be all gone like that then if you don't knowif your dog has eaten it the symptoms may

not show up for a week, or two weeks, or threeweeks and the symptoms are bleeding and inability to plot. so this could show up with bloodin the urine, blood in the stool, a bloody nose, blood around teeth, blood in anyplaceof a cut that doesn't quit bleeding and sometimes just bruising. you might notice just bruisingwhich looks just like a bruise on a human so if you see these things then you need toget your dog to the veterinarian immediately and ask if it could possibly be rat poisonand there is antidote and so you could get your pet treated for this but it has to becaught early enough. rat poison can come in lots of types and boxes and you want to kindof avoid those kind of things. there are other types of rat poison that poison differentlybut they are not as come but all rat poison

are pretty dangerous. so glue traps this isa glue trap this is not a poison it traps rats in a different way. these are maybe asafer alternative if you are having a pest problem.