![]() ![]() The most widely used poisons are anticoagulants, which cause the rat to bleed to death internally. ![]() When rats eat the poisoned grain in the bait station, they return to their nests to die-in walls, in floors, underneath streets and restaurant stoves, in sewers. With their small holes and zigzaggy interiors bait stations are to a rat what a smoothly run fast-food restaurant is to a human. Bait stations are designed to keep bait away from pets and children, but they are also designed as little rat-friendly zones. Bait stations are the things that people in cities see constantly in back alleys and in parks and do not recognize or, chances are, even think about. More often, poison is added to grains and the grain is put into shoe-box-size containers called bait stations. Sometimes, poison is injected directly into the rat burrow the rat dies of heart failure or, with the most severe poisons, of damage to its central nervous system-they are found dead on their bellies, arms and legs extended. ![]() I don't know of a precise statistic, but I know that at any given moment there is poison all over the streets and homes of New York, not to mention the rest of America. Most frequently rats die from ingesting poison. ![]()
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