Most housing societies in Indian cities run pest control two or three times a year, and rodenticide bait is almost always part of it. The team arrives, places bait stations in stairwells, behind utility meters, along garden walls, and near garbage chutes, the same places a dog on a morning walk will stop to sniff. Owners are rarely told what compound was used, where exactly it was placed, or how long it stays active. That gap between what the pest control team knows and what the dog owner knows is where poisoning happens.
