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> But it was easy to prove warfarin was safe: a pest control officer held a series of local meetings where he ate warfarin-treated rolled oats while discussing
by dan353hehe 4mo ago
> But it was easy to prove warfarin was safe: a pest control officer held a series of local meetings where he ate warfarin-treated rolled oats while discussing rat control.
Got to love those live demos. Eating rat poison in front of the audience to prove it is safe!
- _whiteCaps_ 4mo agoThe dose makes the poison. Warfarin is prescribed as a blood thinner for humans.
- scotty79 4mo agoIs it only the dose? I think I read somewhere that rodents are especially vulnerable to this substance for some genetic reason. To lazy to check again. Not to lazy to pronounce my ignorance in a comment. Oh my.
- joseda-hg 4mo agoI mean, however close we might treat them as, they're still fundamentally diferent animals Since they can't throw up or burp, something that produces enough gas (More than a regular soda) could in theory kill a rat, but just make a human slightly inconvenienced, or on the same idea, you could wrap the poisson on an emetic agent to make it safer while not affecting the rat at all
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- graeme 4mo ago>Is it only the dose? I think they meant, for humans, the dose makes the poison. We would have to eat a very large amount of warfarin to have trouble. Rats get hurt from a small amount. Poison is dose dependent, but the actual dose dependency is different between species.
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- sandworm101 4mo agoMetabolic rate. The canary doesnt die fast because it is genetically sensitive. It dies fast because a birds metabolic rate is like a firecracker compared to ours.
- sokka_h2otribe 3mo agoThis may not be true... Some birds have incredible metabolic rates --> take for example a humming bird. However if I were to assume a canary has twice the human metabolic rate, it isn't a very good sensor. So, the canary dies half as soon? But the canary isn't even about poisonous gas. I believe it's about explosive methane gas, as their gas lanterns would need to be extinguished if the canary died, or else the gas leak that killed the canary could explode. So, yeah, anyway. I think your information on this example is wrong, please feel free to correct me
- linuxkernal 4mo agoPoor guy, must of had so many complications
- loloquwowndueo 4mo ago*have had
- jrflowers 4mo ago* would of
- loloquwowndueo 4mo agoYour killing me, man
- jrflowers 4mo agoDon’t take a fence
- loloquwowndueo 4mo agoThis thread totally made my day. Thanks!
- maxerickson 4mo agoWarfarin is reversible with vitamin k. I suppose he was also getting a low dose per unit of body mass.
- sandworm101 4mo agoWas the guy secretly eating Special K cereal?
- flakes 4mo agoWhen we had mice in our house years ago, we tried for a few weeks setting poison bait in the garage to get rid of them. We could tell the mice were eating the bait, but there was still no end to the mice. We then had a thought... what if the mice were also eating the dog food in the garage? The container lid for the dog food was not very strong (weak and flexible enough that a mouse could possibly squeeze in and out), and coincidentally, that dog food was also high in Vitamin K. Once we got better sealed containers to store the dog food, it only took a few days before we started seeing delirious, sick mice running around aimlessly in plain day light. Shortly after that, we stopped seeing them entirely. It's possible the dog food was not reversing the poison. Maybe with the dog food locked up they started eating more bait, or maybe it simply took longer than we expected for the poison kick in. But regardless, we definitely learned a valuable lesson about keeping the pet food well sealed!