

Also, please try and help any animal that has an ailment - they can be helped by calling your wildlife rehabilitation agency. Mites are beginning to accumulate around her face If you see a coyote whose fur is riddled with mites, or who has mange, it may very well be rat poison which allowed the mite infestation to take hold. Rat poison doesn’t cause mange, of course, but it can be a highly contributive factor because it weakens the immune system which fights off these mites. One of the effects of rat poisons on coyotes is that it compromises their immune systems, leaving them particularly vulnerable to parasites, including mites of all types. The poison accumulates and compromises the ability to live in various ways, most notably by slowing them down. They are not as alert or as fast or as acute as they once were, so living becomes more difficult and even dangerous for them. Very small doses of rat poison may not immediately kill the owl, hawk, or coyote that consumes the poisoned rat, but the effects are just as insidious over a longer period of time. Rats can be eliminated in a more humane manner if need be. In high doses, these kill by causing the organism to bleed internally - massively. In small doses, humans take a similar drug known as cumaden to prevent strokes.

Rat poison kills by use of the ingredient warfarin, or a second generation thereof, which thins the blood.
