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Anticoagulant Rodenticide Toxicity (view source)
Revision as of 15:07, 23 August 2010
, 15:07, 23 August 2010→Signalment
Anticoagulant rodenticide toxcity is most often seen in dogs, due to their scavenging behaviour. Dogs most commonly consume the bait itself. Farm dogs are particularly at risk since rodenticides are frequently used in this environment and many dogs are allowed to roam freely outdoors. In the cat, toxicity usually occurs via the consumption of poisoned rodents. Anticoagulant rodenticide toxicity has also been reported in the pig.
Anticoagulant rodenticide toxcity is most often seen in dogs, due to their scavenging behaviour. Dogs most commonly consume the bait itself. Farm dogs are particularly at risk since rodenticides are frequently used in this environment and many dogs are allowed to roam freely outdoors. In the cat, toxicity usually occurs via the consumption of poisoned rodents. Anticoagulant rodenticide toxicity has also been reported in the pig.
Barn owls have been shown to be affected by the 'second generation' anticoagulative rodenticides which were
developed to counter increasing resistance to warfarin in rodents. These compounds are more persistent in the rodent
and are toxic to owls when the rodent is eaten as prey. Farmers should be encouraged not to use second generation
rodenticides if they have barn owls on their property. The barn owls are probably just as effective as the rodenticide
anyway!
==Diagnosis==
==Diagnosis==