Then there,s the dead poisoned rat that died in the open, so then there is concerns about your dog and again wild life eating it, no animal other than a crow will touch a dead rat and that will only be its eyes.
And yet the evidence from carcass toxicilogy analysis is that many predators scavenge on dead or dying rats and suffer as a result.
Red kites are the most threatened because dead rats are a speciality for them, and half of the red kites tested had LD50 body loads of bromadiolone - that's typically enough to kill them, and those with sub-lethal bodyloads were more than likely dieing as a result of their weakened state.
And if you want to tell my terriers that they don't eat dead animals, be my guest, but I wouldn't try to take the carcass off them if I were you.
This was my Emily with Bella on the right.
In 1988 when she was one year old she developed thrombocytopenia and began to bleed to death spontaneously. With a big does of vitamin K and some heavy duty steroids I nursed her through. Emily lived to be 13 was very special. Rat poisoning was the most likely cause of her thrombocytopenia, and rats bleed to death just as she was.