Every year Peninsula vets treat dogs that have eaten fox baits, and wildlife carers pick up barn owls and powerful owls dying from rat bait. Baiting works in broadacre country where there is nothing else around to eat it. On five-acre blocks with neighbours, pets and bush reserves on every side, it mostly kills the wrong things.
1080 and PAPP fox baits are regulated for exactly that reason. On the Peninsula the distance rules from houses, roads and boundaries rule most properties out, and a dog that finds a bait usually dies before it reaches a vet.
Rat baits are the quieter problem. Anticoagulant baits in a stable or chook shed are eaten by rats that then die slowly in the open, where owls, kookaburras and the farm dog find them. Second-generation baits persist through the food chain. The barn owl hunting your paddocks at night is doing more rat control than the bait station ever will.
Shooting is the alternative that fits small properties. It is target-specific: with thermal optics every animal is identified before a shot is taken, and nothing is left in the paddock or shed afterwards. Small-calibre rifles and careful shot placement keep disturbance low.
Where shooting alone is not enough, for a big rabbit warren system say, we map the warrens so they can be ripped or fumigated, which deals with the problem at its source without leaving poison lying around.