This is a picture of our cat Skittles…about 4 + years ago when he mysteriously got very sick…Skittles ate a mouse laced with rat poison. We had moved into a new home and thought we had cleared out the poison left behind by the previous people. Sadly – some was left in the basement hidden that we didn’t find til much later. The poison got to the mouse residents and our cats caught and ate them. The rat poison is a new kind of poison that kills over a few weeks…so finding out the actual cause was very difficult at first. Blood work confirmed rat poison – problem was there was so much internal bleeding and damage that the Emergency Vet suggested we euthanize Skittles right away. When they tried to take a blood sample – all they got was pink watered down liquid – he was literally bleeding to death internally – the poison was taking our sweet cat. I didn’t want him to suffer but I also now knew what was happening…we had a diagnosis. I decided to use Homeopathy to try and treat him. He was VERY weak. Skittles didn’t eat, drink, groom or move. He was very thin and looked well…looked like he was going do die sadly at any moment. I started him on Pesticide detox – I had to dose him every hour well into the night. But he started to show signs of improvement. It took a lot of effort and times where we thought he wouldn’t make it but I never gave up on him. I fed him and offered water every hour and gave his Homeopathic remedy just as often. He pulled through and made a miraculous recovery. He didn’t come unscathed however as the poisoning had been very bad…and damaged his kidneys so he’d occasionally need Homeopathy to keep him good but he always bounced back. He went at least a couple of years after the poisoning…put on weight and enjoyed his days outside…unfortunately one morning when he wandered off a bit more out of sight…a coyote caught him and took him away from us. He didn’t make it. We were devastated that after he had been through so much we still lost him but at least he got to enjoy his last few years pain free and doing what he loved most…going outside in the garden. I bring this story up because I know how many people use rodent poison regularly…and I just want to say please don’t. The stuff causes so much damage and suffering. NO animal deserves to die this way…no mouse, or rat…no one. Sadly many of our pets end up eating these horrible products by accident or second hand through a poisoned animal. If you have any of these products in your home please dispose of them safely. Do not use them.

And talk with your neighbors if you can as well – because poisoned mice die slowly and can come on your property!

Pesticides cause so much harm in so many different forms. We must choose to not buy them at all – that is the only way they will stop being sold.

You see the worst part of all…is that our pets eat/absorb pesticides on a daily basis (in their food/flea/heartworm treatments) – the poisoning is much slower but it happens nonetheless. Unless we choose to feed organic as much as possible…and give our animals a good detox regularly to support proper liver/kidney function we may see them suffer too just later on. We won’t see a world that has no pesticides any time soon but we can become very aware of what they do to our companion animals and we can make better choices for them…