This is just one of the reasons i don t recommend the use of poison it kills rats in the attic and then you have to deal with the terrible odor.
Rat attic poison.
Never use rat poison in your attic.
Rat poison seems like the easy solution to a rat invasion.
The motomco tomcat mouse and rat pack killer offer a cost effective way to get rats out of your property.
The pellets usually kill rats in 4 to 6 days.
Poison results in stinky dead rats.
Rat poisons are best used outdoors and only with a rat bait station.
Rats are fast building up an immunity to rat poison which means that dangerous substance you re sprinkling around so freely might not actually kill any of the rats off at all.
Where they die becomes the problem.
If you put out poison rats will indeed die.
A rat that does ingest poison will go somewhere dark and isolated to die leaving you with a rotting carcass as it decomposes.
Anticoagulants damage capillaries the tiny blood vessels and cause internal bleeding hemorrhaging.
Includes warfarin brodifacoum flocoumafen coumatetraly difenacoum and bromadiolone.
If a rat population is nearly exterminated the remaining rats will increase their reproductive rate to restore their numbers.
It probably will have quite the impact on your cat though especially when rats eat the poison and don t die but the cat hunts catches and then devours bites chews the rat.
This process takes a few days.
A rat can die inside your walls and slowly decay leaving an intense odor for months.
Types of rat poison anticoagulants.