Jan. 14, 2026 5 AM PT
To the editor: That the California Division of Pesticide Regulation would even take into account rolling again current rules on using the anticoagulant rat poisons regardless of onerous proof that they trigger nice and insufferable hurt up the meals chain, inflicting inhumane deaths in a large number of species, is stupefying (“Deadly rat poisons are pushing L.A.’s mountain lion population to the edge,” Jan. 13). These anticoagulant rodenticides are horrific. The very fact is that safer, different rodent management strategies are working, but the division is keen to convey this dreadful poison again into full use. Officers couldn’t presumably supply a very good purpose.
The deaths attributable to this rodenticide are insufferable and horrible: I’ve watched two bald eagles die on my mom’s property because of this product. There was a household of sharp-shinned hawks in my neighborhood (mid-Wilshire) — now not. All lifeless from consuming poisoned rats. My canine almost died from this poison after discovering three lifeless poisoned rats in a hidden spot of my yard and licking them early one morning.
These anticoagulant rat poisons should be banned in all places perpetually. They trigger irreparable hurt to our valuable wildlife and, sure, to our pets.
Ruth Peebles, Los Angeles
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To the editor: For these many advocates of wildlife, together with our mountain lions, to be taught that the California Division of Pesticide Regulation is proposing to extend pesticide use is past abhorrent. We all know of the unconscionable cruelty of condemning sentient creatures to a gradual and painful dying from their ingestion.
Cougars have turn into admired as a pure predator that not often assaults or kills people. We’re conscious of their vulnerability to being killed on our roads and freeways or in wildfires, a lot in order that California is establishing an expensive wildlife crossing to permit them and different animals to soundly transfer from one space to a different. Many people are additionally hoping that these iconic creatures is likely to be granted the standing of “threatened” as their numbers ominously dwindle, so to have them additional put in danger by deadly rodenticide poisons is reprehensible.
The carnage that these rodenticides trigger amongst wildlife species is monumental. In an effort to stop rodent infestations, it is important that we take all already-known crucial, efficient and commonsense precautions earlier than resorting to utilizing rodenticides. To fall in need of that’s past inhumane — it’s unfathomably silly.
Elaine Livesey-Fassel, Los Angeles
