What sucks for us we had no idea people were using poison, and when Kody caught the rat it had been about a week till symptoms started showing. It took about 3 days till he couldn't hold onto life anymore. First day we thought maybe he had a heatstroke out in the backyard. So that's why he wasn't moving, but looking back on it that may have been the poison working its killing horrors. he stopped eating and started throwing up we got scared so we lifted him to the vet, they ran some tests and told us they would let us know everything the lab found on the following Monday. That was Saturday when he went to the vet, We managed to get him home and let him rest tried to get him to eat but he wouldn't we were trying to give him medicine when he snapped his jaw down on the syringe. We set his head down only to notice he wasn't breathing. we then started CPR, after 6 minuets of trying CPR, we stopped and all began to break down. This was the same day as his vet visit, hearts were so broken... When we took him to the vet I remember the vet saying an acceptable toxicity in the dogs system was 7-25 and Kody's was 134. My poor Kody was in so much pain.

Symptoms of poisoning:

Symptoms only start after a few days when the clotting factors run out, and depend on how much poison was taken in and whether it is a short of long acting poison. Long acting poisons stay in the body for weeks.
Pale gums and tongue
Heavy or difficult breathing
Depression
Black stool
Weakness
Pounding heart
Vomiting
Blood in urine
Sudden death

Studies in Canada, the United States and Europe show that this newer generation of rat poisons is killing a variety of wild animals, including mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, skunks, deer, squirrels, possums and raccoons, along with bald eagles, golden eagles, owls, hawks and vultures. They are saying vegetarian animals are getting it too, and they dont know why... Why do we introduce these man-made things to a world that they dont exist in like its natural...A blood thinner is not natural!! EPA get your shit together!!

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PAPA (People Against Poisoning Animals)

"Hello, I am starting this Blog because my handsome baby boy Kody (Alaskan malamute) was stolen from our lives by rat poison. It broke my heart and I feel it would be important to help people understand "Please don't use rat poison, it kills more than rats!" What people fail to see is yes it might help get rid of your rat problem, but it also has a huge effect on the Eco system. Poison has a huge impact on everyone, for my family even though we don't use poison we were effected by someone else using it. The first instinct of most dogs is to chase the small critter scurrying along the floor. which sadly our beautiful malamute did. he caught it played with it to death and when we found it, he didn't eat it but there was no blood. so we figured he licked it up while bursting its stomach. Most rat poison is in pellet form so if the stomach of the rat hadn't digested the pellets all the way then without a doubt in my mind, my kody boy probably ate pellets straight from its gut. Other cases of poisoning were discussed in Canada because people were using a stronger poison. Cougars, hawks, owls, deers, and even house pets were being killed of with high toxicity poisoning. Now your all think Deers? well since rodents don't have muscles to hold there restroom needs they let it go even as they run. If a rodent used the rest room after digesting some poison they could use the bathroom on grass or end up dying in a stream while decomposing. It can hurt so many elements of nature. There are better ways to go about it, sticky traps...which isn't the best way but if you really need the problem dealt with , its an option. 2nd option is live traps, which I think would be the better way of going about it. I know there are better ways to deal with it we should all work together and help our environment!"