So hello and welcome to this Small Animal Clinical podcast brought to you from the War of Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Jassani.

Today it's my great pleasure to welcome a good friend and colleague Dominic Barfield.

Dom is a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and is a lecturer in ECC at the RVC's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

So thanks very much, Dom, for joining me today.

Thank you for asking me.

Sorry, mate.

So, Dom, today, what I thought we would do is a bit of a whirlwind tour around some kind of relatively common small animal poisons,

covering some of the kind of old or more

classic ones, but also some of the ones that have been identified more recently that people

may not be aware of. And obviously, we've got quite a lot to talk about in a relatively short

period of time. And what I thought we would try and do would be to cover kind of

the most salient facts about each of the poisons that we discuss. And then hopefully we can come

back in the future and discuss, you know, both a general approach to the poison patient

and also some of the poisons themselves in a bit more detail.

So let's start with some of the kind of classic small animal poisons.

And one of the things we're going to talk about in the context of each of the poisons really today is this whole kind of dose dependent versus non-dose-dependent thing.

So just to remind people that all of the ones that we're going to

talk about to begin with are all dose-dependent. So in other words, the greater the exposure

that the patient has, the more likely it is that they're going to suffer toxicity. So I guess

we're better to start than with the vitamin K antagonist anticoagulantant rodendicides, which is a bit of a mouthful.

But can you please summarize kind of in a nutshell how these agents work and also whether this is

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