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Please be careful what gets put out in your yards
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Posted 4 months ago
I want to put this out as I have just experienced this. My Bobby boy (almost 2 year old long haired dachshund) got lethargic, didn't want to eat or drink, so off to the vet we go. We treat hime for hge ( catchall for unexplained upset stomach and diarrea). He starts pooping pure blood within a couple of hours and back to the vet. We were so busy trying to stabilize him that we didn't have time to diagnose that very moment. But we did start treatment to clot the blood immediately. Long story short he died the next morning and I had an autopsy performed because I have to know what happend to a previously healthy 2 year old dog. He was poisoned. Warfarin (rat poison). That poor baby just bled to death internally. It is a very ugly, horrible way for your dog to die. When we figured out that he was bleeding out ( within the 15 minutes it took me to get him back to the vet) we started the Vitamin K injections but he was past saving. I don't use poison on anything. Either something that had been poisoned got into my yard and Bobby got it, or someone put poison where he could get it. I hope to God it was the first and not the latter because that is too cruel. So please watch for rodents or moles in your yard that may have been poisoned by your neighbors down the street. It could kill your dog.
RIP My Gorgeous Big Red Boy |
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| Posted 4 months ago I had to have a talk with the owners of the vegetable stand next door to me. They mentioned to me about wanting to put rat poison and other poisons down to kill snakes. I desperately asked them not to and pointed out that we have well water and it's a shallow well of which means we use what water gets in the well versus spring water. In order to get spring water the well has to be extremely deep. So a shallow well means the rain water would carry the poisons straight to my well especially since the veggie stand drains towards my yard and then we'd have poisoned water. |
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| Posted 18 days ago I'm so sorry to hear about your little boy. We have 3 dachshunds, and we'd just be devastated if anything like that happened to them. We have a huge number of moles in our area, but luckily our neighbors are as anti-poison as we are, so we don't have to worry about that. And now that we're in the country, I worry less about evil people who will throw out poisened bait for dogs (we had that happen a few years ago here). I just don't understand why anyone would want to hurt a harmless little animal, you know? Anyway, I just wanted to offer my condolences to you. |
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| Posted 7 days ago Thank you Miss Jodith. Dachshunds rule, at least they do in my house. There are nine of them and one pomeranian that thinks she is a dachsie. I still have no answers other than he was definately poisoned. Suffice it to say I watch them every second that they are out and I don't let anyone give them any treats unless they come from my stock. I hate to feel that way but I refuse to lose another dog the way he died.
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