"Uli Lachmuth" wrote in message
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Glenda wrote:
The dehydration theory is a wive's tale.

The dehydration theory is a nice example of what happens when people who
don't know try to explain something they observe:

The normal MOA of the normal anticoagulant rodenticide is that due to
the suppressed coagulation internal hemorrhages don't stop, the poisoned
animal bleeds profusely into guts and joints.

Fact 1 : the blood is no longer concentrated inside the blood vessels
but dispersed throughout the body

Fact 2 : Blood is moisture

Fact 3 : With reference to their individual mass rodents have a HUGE
body surface

What happens? Usually they dry out before bacteria can start their job
to decompose them. Effect: no smell.

Well, I can verify that for smaller rodents, at least. My previous apartment
had an outdoor storage cubby with a poorly-fit Z-strapped plywood door, so
every year when it got cold, mice moved in. I dreaded the annual cleanout,
because there was always 1 or 2 feet-up little corpses to suprise me, in the
niches between the crates and such. (I gross out easily.) I never put out
poison, so I assume hot or cold weather killed them. I could smell the ****
and turds and chewed cardboard, but never noticed any decomp. (Only
experienced that sickly sweet smell once or twice, and you never forget
it.)

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