Thread: Warning Distressing and Disturbing Photographs- 1080 Poison

I have heard this stuff is a residual poison,in that it absorbs into bone tissue not only muscle & soft tissue.Not sure how bio-degradable it is either .The bulk on the animal breaks down but the bone may lay for 20 -30 years or longer.What happens if a dog eats one of these bones? If that's wrong I guess I'll be told but its what I have come to believe about 1080 .

Not sure on the bones Chris but dogs are very prone to secondary poisoning.

There was a report a few years ago of a dessicated possum carcases falling out of a woolshed roof and bein chawed on by a farmers dog...The dog died and tests on the dog proved positive to 1080 poisoning. It was years since 1080 had being used in this vicinity.
I hope I am right in saying 7 years.

We use this rule of the thumb....If there is any trace of a bait its poisonous...If there is any trace left of animal killed by it, it poisonous.

We rate 1080 as an extreme residual poison because of its ability to go on killing down through the food chain to at least three levels.

Deer.... Invertebrate.....Native Bird

Shit!.....................stags have been known to gnaw old antlers/bones looking for calcium

My Dogs are old hands at this protest game.

This stuff makes me angry.

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Scribe that dog picture reminds me, on that link I put up it recommends to put a muzzle on your dog when you go tramping to keep it from eating anything that has been effected by 1080 to stop your dog from dying. I've got no problem going out for a tramp in a well populated busy area with a cage muzzle on my wee Jet and a jacket sign written that "1080 makes me wear this muzzle". He would be the most convincingly miserable looking pup. WTF eh. Should be provide muzzles for all the deer, kea, everything else that is "mistakenly" dying from 1080???!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Shit!.....................stags have been known to gnaw old antlers/bones looking for calcium

To true. They do it quite a lot.

Originally Posted by Dougie

This stuff makes me angry.

*Edit*
Scribe that dog picture reminds me, on that link I put up it recommends to put a muzzle on your dog when you go tramping to keep it from eating anything that has been effected by 1080 to stop your dog from dying. I've got no problem going out for a tramp in a well populated busy area with a cage muzzle on my wee Jet and a jacket sign written that "1080 makes me wear this muzzle". He would be the most convincingly miserable looking pup. WTF eh. Should be provide muzzles for all the deer, kea, everything else that is "mistakenly" dying from 1080???!

Dougie, not all of your post is showing above. When I have gone to reply to you the rest of what you wrote to Scribe has become visible so I have left it here so that others can see what you wrote.

Anyway, I was wanting to say to you that in my view your anger is what any sane and rational person would feel toward the senseless indiscriminate killing that 1080 causes. The important thing should you choose to do it now, is to channel that anger in a positive way toward opposing the use of this hideous toxin.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Shit!.....................stags have been known to gnaw old antlers/bones looking for calcium

But then we are all likely to pick up our own share of this poison from various other sources.

1994 - Milk from nine poisoned cow got into Kiwi Co-OP Dairies Ltd processing system. The milk got into Kiwi's tanker collection
. Maf and MOH officials kept the case under wraps until June 11 six weeks after the event. Paul Marra, of Kiwi said the milk was processed into milk powder. (Rural News).

2006 helicopter dropped a full load of pellets in Lake Taupo It was reported to be non-toxic pre feed bait.

Major Alert Child Chews Possum Bait... Rural News.
Natalie Albert ate a 1080 based cereal bait on Labour day....
The Turner family were cleaning up a the Otukau Graveyard...
Mrs Turner said she was still picking up 1080 pellets around the marae on Otober the 31.

1996 10 bulls died from 1080 poisoning after drinking contaminated water. (North Pureora)

2002 At a meeting with the Ruapehu District Council, a local farmer spoke of deaths of his sheep and cattle soon after a previous 1080 drop, Autopsies confirmed 1080 poisoning as the cause of death of the animals. But in the meantime, the farmer had sent other animals from the same herds to the freezing works.

1999 1080 was detected in a processed deer carcase in Blenhiem for the second time in four months (Marlborough Express)

1992 70 deer lost in a Central North Island farm after a 1080 overfly..Of the remaining 48 hinds, only two bred the following season.

Rushy - I really hope I can do something to help.

I am still so flabbergasted that this is happening in our home and has been happening for so long! 80% of the world's 1080 is used in NZ...how is that 100% Pure NZ?

What can we do??

There was one man who protested this up until his death even when he was in his last days he camped on Tongariro as a protest and one last effort to get his point across, he was not the most popular man around because of some of the things he did but he was passionate about trying to stop 1080. Chris short we won't forget you or your contribution in the fight against 1080.

Originally Posted by hunter308

There was one man who protested this up until his death even when he was in his last days he camped on Tongariro as a protest and one last effort to get his point across, he was not the most popular man around because of some of the things he did but he was passionate about trying to stop 1080. Chris short we won't forget you or your contribution in the fight against 1080.

Yep I remember that. The heightened awareness of the 1080 debate created by the television exposure him being prepared to die on Tongariro played a part in ultimately getting the program "Poisoning Paradise" to air.

Video: Deer mass-poisoned - Taihape farmer speaks out

Deer mass-poisoned - Taihape farmer speaks out - YouTube

Originally Posted by Raging Bull

Video: Deer mass-poisoned - Taihape farmer speaks out

Deer mass-poisoned - Taihape farmer speaks out - YouTube

Thanks Raging Bull. As always for people viewing this video clip, it is going to be contentious and polarising. My views on 1080 are well known on the forum so it will be no surprise that having watched it I am left feeling further saddened and sngered that we as a nation allow this to occur.

At tvwild.co.nz there is some great info, footage, and a way we can vote 1080 out of New Zealand