New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research abstracts
The risk to dogs of poisoning from sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) residues in
possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
D. MEENKEN
Wellington Regional Council
P. O. Box 41
Masterton, New Zealand
L. H. BOOTH
Landcare Research
P. O. Box 69
Lincoln, New Zealand
Abstract To assess the risk of secondary poisoning to dogs
(Canis familiaris) which may scavenge carcasses of poisoned animals,
possum carcasses were collected after a possum control operation using sodium
monofluoroacetate (1080) paste baits, in Wairarapa, New Zealand, during 1994.
The state of the decomposition of carcasses was assessed at intervals for up to
75 days and the 1080 concentrations of the stomach contents analysed. Carcasses
collected from the field were found to contain concentrations of 1080 high
enough to pose a serious hazard to dogs, even up to 75 days after the poisoning
operation.
Keywords sodium monofluoroacetate (1080); possum carcass;
dogs; secondary poisoning
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 1997, Vol. 40: 573-576
0028-8233/97/4004-0573 $7.00/0 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand
1997
Short Communication
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