Poisoning one animal does not just kill that one animal. A poisoned rodent is a toxic time bomb. Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs; rat poisons) continue to be widely used in the U.S. Not only are these poisons horrifically cruel to the rodents, they are also affecting raptors and many other non-target animals. These products can cause both the prey and the animal that eats the prey to bleed to death internally. They can also cause minor injuries to be much more severe than they would be normally—

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