Poison Is Poison - A Place Called Hope

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Think Outside the Bait Box 2.0

It doesn’t stop with rodents.

When rodent poison is used in Connecticut, it doesn’t just kill rats and mice.

It kills hawks.
It kills owls.
It kills foxes and coyotes.
It kills bald eagles.
It kills domesticated pets.
It kills any victim who ingests the poisons directly or indirectly.

At A Place Called Hope, we treat countless victims.

The Truth in Connecticut

78 out of 101 tested wild birds and mammals in Connecticut were found to contain deadly second-generation rodenticides.
Bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, and great horned owls are among the documented victims.
These poisons cause slow internal bleeding, neurological damage, and prolonged suffering.

This is not rare.
This is happening here.

Rodent poison does not solve a problem.
It moves the poison up the food chain. Poisons have never solved a rodent problem because poisons only perpetuate the issue. Rodents respond to a die off by reproducing. This keeps the cycle going, the Pest Industry profiting, and the customer with an ongoing rodent problem.

You Can Stop This.

If you use pest control services, ask one question:

“Are you using rodenticide?”

If the answer is yes, choose another option.

Safer alternatives exist:

Exclusion and sealing entry points
Sanitation and habitat control
Snap traps in secure enclosures
Professional wildlife-safe management plans that may include Fertility Control for long term solutions