Since 2020, Owens Viani and her nonprofit have worked with legislators to crack down on rat poisons that impact wildlife. "It's designed to cause a rat or mouse to bleed to death but unfortunately ...

When a rat or mouse consumes poison, it doesn't die immediately. Predators, like foxes, bald eagles and coyotes, can be poisoned from eating that mouse or rat, Vermiglio-Kaplanek said.