Deadly Mange Is Linked To Rodenticide |
April 12, 2023 -
October 31, 2024
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Price: Sue Griffin
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Please, everyone, stop using rat or rodent poisons. You are killing wildlife, too!
This past week has been an emotional one for me. Tuesday as I hiked with a friend, we observed one healthy looking coyote successfully hunting, but it was the sick coyote (pictured) that really got my attention. This coyote is suffering from mange, caused by parasitic skin burrowing mites. The severe hair loss, raw bleeding sores, and limping, was a pathetic and saddening sight to see. This coyote will likely die due to the effects of mange on its body. We immediately reported the coyote to local authorities.
Thursday, I saw one of my favorite bobcats that I hadn’t seen since the end of December. She was sitting and grooming on a log. When she turned and I saw her face I could tell immediately that she too now suffers from mange (pictured). My heart sank and I could feel my stomach react. I observed her repeatedly licking her body and scratching her itchy ears and neck. Her ears now bleed due to her scratching at the mites burrowing into her skin that has now become dry and crusty in areas. It appeared difficult for her to open her eyes completely, now also dry and crusty around the edges. How will she be able to successfully hunt if she can’t see properly? I immediately reported her, too.
A healthy immune system helps coyotes and bobcats keep mites under control. Bobcats with mange are almost always found to have a compromised immune system brought on from consuming poisoned rodents, a health issue now caused by humans.
I walked a business that sides where I saw the coyote and bobcat with mange. I was shocked and saddened to find more than 30 rodent poison bait boxes (pictured), 30!! Some appeared to be placed and labeled legally, a high percentage were not. But I must add, legal or not, rat poisons kill other wildlife too and their use needs to stop!!
There are multiple vineyards in the area as well. I have often seen bobcats and coyotes hunting rodents in these vineyards. I’m told that some of these very vineyards use rodenticide, too, but I have not been able to confirm yet.
I have to ask myself, do people (businesses and residential) not realize the impact rat poisons and rodenticide have on wildlife? Or do they know and they just don’t care?
Please help spread the word. Share this post; tell your friends, neighbors, businesses, schools, hospitals, apartment complexes, wineries, hardware stores, etc, PLEASE DON’T USE OR SELL RAT POISON - RAT POISON KILLS WILDLIFE! All wildlife. The poisons are not species specific.
According to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, “Rodenticide can harm wildlife. Throughout California, the use of poison baits to control rodents has injured and killed hundreds or thousands of wild animals and pets. Predatory and scavenging birds and mammals like owls, hawks, raccoons, bobcats, mountain lions, foxes, skunks and coyotes that eat dead or dying rodents that have consumed these baits will also be poisoned. Pets will also eat dead or dying rodents and unprotected bait.”
These poisons work by preventing a rodent's blood from clotting, causing them to bleed internally, but they don't just work on the rodents they target. Rodenticides are just as lethal for any animal that consumes the poison. Each year, thousands of non-target wildlife species are killed when they directly or indirectly consume rodenticides.
Contact your local, state, and federal representatives to stop the continued sale and use of these deadly poisons.
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