04/19/2026
This is shared from a wildlife rescue but relevant for everyone.
I don’t usually share things like this, and I know it may be upsetting—but it’s important to see.
This opossum arrived already gone. What came from her body made the cause unmistakable: bright green, solid rodent poison. Based on that, this wasn’t secondary exposure—she consumed it directly.
That’s the part that often gets overlooked. Rodenticide isn’t contained or selective. Once it’s in the environment, anything can find it—wildlife, pets, animals just trying to survive.
And even when it is eaten by a rodent first, it doesn’t stop there. A poisoned animal becomes disoriented and easy to catch, passing that toxin along to whatever eats it next. The impact doesn’t stay in one place—it moves through the entire system.
Opossums are quiet, beneficial animals. They clean up what’s left behind and help keep ecosystems in balance. This one didn’t die because of disease or injury—she died because poison was accessible in her environment.
This isn’t shared for shock. It’s shared because this is a real, preventable outcome of using rodent poison—and most of the time, it goes unseen. We need to do better.
