At 3:54 PM -0500 3/4/05, JFlintoff@aol.com wrote: > Using poisons is a double edged sword since other animals can eat >the poisoned animal and die from it; the warfarin-containing ones >are especially dangerous to pets and other wildlike. > >Jerry John Flintoff **Thank you. I had an acquaintance lose his much loved Borzoi to a gopher who carried poison bait from a neighbor an acre and a half away. It wasn't that the gopher ate the bait and travelled before he died. A gopher can find the bait, fill up it's cheeks and carry the bait homeward. If the dog or the cat catches the gopher, cheeks stuffed, even a large dog is dead, and it's not an easy death. We have 3 1/4 acres. My dogs catch and eat gophers. Lots of them. We pray that neighbors nearby don't set out poison. We certainly don't. -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2005