In a nod to P-22, to protect big cats, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors bans rodenticide on county-owned land.
What’s the best way to honor the legacy of P-22, the Hollywood Cat who crossed two freeways and survived another 10 years as the wildest resident of Griffith Park?That’s the impetus behind an action taken on Tuesday, Feb. 28 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that includes support for additional wildlife crossings, bans on pesticides that are killing the cougars, and the minting of a U.S. postage stamp that will literally spread his story across the country.
That’s right. Rat poisons placed outside homes, commercial and public buildings are moving up the food chain, starting with rodents who eat the poison, as well as raccoons and possums. When hungry mountain lions eat these animals, the rat poisons enter their organs,In the motion, the Board of Supervisors is asking the state to ban what are known as first-generation anticoagulant rodenticides or FGARs, developed before 1970.
The result was a bad case of mange, a common skin disease made worse by a suppressed immune system from poisons that accumulate in the liver or blood of larger mammals. Since he wore a radio collar, P-22 was located and treated for mange by U.S. National Park Service scientists and veterinarians.said in an interview on Tuesday that toxicology tests are not yet back from P-22, who died in December.“He almost died once from it,” she said.
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