My 22kg Golden etriever found a green ba

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I'll handle this as a pet poisoning case. Let me pull the toxin card, run the lookups, and check the poison center line for your area.

Got it. I have the dog toxin card (anticoagulant rodenticide) and the two US animal poison hotlines. Let me write the draft and run the gate.

Two UL hits are blocking — I'll remove them from the answer body. The hotline numbers themselves came back from this turn's closed-table `hit`, so they pass; the ULs are decoration.

Gate passed. Sending it.

**Go to an emergency vet in Austin right now.** A 22 kg Golden etriever that ate a green anticoagulant-rodenticide bait block about 30 minutes ago is in the high-risk band on the dog toxin card. Your neighbor's "wait until tomorrow" plan is wrong on the mechanism — the danger is not that he vomits in front of you, it is the **delayed bleeding that begins 2–5 days later**, after the poison has already done what it does. By the time he looks sick, the window to give the antidote (vitamin K1) cleanly has usually narrowed.

| Now | Do not |
| --- | --- |
| Call an emergency vet / animal hospital in Austin, leave now with the bait block, original packaging, and any leftover | Give hydrogen peroxide or anything else to make him vomit at home |
| Bring the bait, the wrapper, and a note: time ~30 min ago, dog ~22 kg, currently no signs | Wait overnight to "see if he starts bleeding or vomits" |
| You can also call one of the two US animal poison lines below while you drive | ely on "he looks fine right now" — that's the trap with this poison |

**What never to do at home:** do not induce vomiting with hydrogen peroxide or any other home method. The dog toxin card is explicit — for suspected poisoning, do not attempt home detoxification, and don't replace veterinary/toxin triage with home remedies.

**Take to the vet:** the bait block itself (the green color often means a second-generation anticoagulant like brodifacoum or bromadiolone, which is more potent and longer-acting), any remaining pieces from the shed, the product packaging if you can find it, the estimated time of ingestion (~30 min ago), and his weight (22 kg).

**Animal poison lines (US, from this turn's closed-table lookup):**
- ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center — **1-888-426-4435** — 24/7/365 — consultation fee may apply
- Pet Poison Helpline — **1-855-764-7661** — 24/7 — 89 USD per incident

**Why not wait:** the card states anticoagulant rodenticide is **"high risk/potentially fatal"**, **"the corpus does not provide a uniform toxic dose; risk cannot be inferred from the number of bait pellets"**, and the onset window is **"coagulation abnormalities are usually delayed 2–5 days; bleeding may appear in 3–7 days."** His normal appearance right now is expected, not reassuring. Treatment usually starts before signs appear, guided by the vet's risk assessment and sometimes by measuring clotting times.

The person who suggested waiting is reasoning from the wrong sign — visible bleeding is a late sign, not the trigger. The trigger is confirmed ingestion of the bait, and that already happened.