Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, or SGARs, pose a great risk to predatory species that feed on animals affected by rat poison.
"I was shocked at how many of the animals I was receiving had secondary rat poisoning," she said.
Companies that spoke with NBC10 Boston say SGARs are their most effective tool to kill rodents. But the poison is making its way up the food chain. "You're putting a bomb inside that animal and then sending it off, and it's disrupting nature's normal way of dealing with these things," Newhouse said. Sylvester has looked over other animals with signs of illness, including a family of great horned owls in Arlington. Four of them have died this year, with the latest casualty a few weeks ago."I'm begging people to please find safer ways, and if you do contact a pesticide company, contact a green company," Sylvester said.
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