That is horrible! How traumatic for you and your family. My heart goes out to you.
We have had two dogs poisioned. The first Whizzer (short for Whiskey, don't ask), was poisioned by rat poision. He didn't get into it, it was kept up and out of the way. A mouse or rat, not sure, got into the poision, had it on him, then drank and ate out of Whizzers food. Contaminating the dog dishes, then Whizzer drank and ate, in turn getting the poision in his system. Even if you personaly don't have any out, a neighbor could and its possible the same situation happened. Luckily we noticed something was wrong and took him to the vet, my Grandparents spend over $1,000.00 to fix him, and that was the 80's! My Dad's bird dog was def. poisioned. He had a bad habbit of getting out and hunting the neighborhood, digging in gardens and being a a nuisance. He also was known for getting on roofs and pooping, great huh? In my Dad's neighbor hood, most of the houses are surrounded by brick fences and all he had to do was get on top, and bam, he was able to jump on the the eves. He too was just fine before we found him dead, when we did find him, he was just hanging on, and the other dogs wouldn't go anywhere near him. It was terrible, but it was Dad's duty to keep them up. Had he been a little more careful, it could have turned out far better. |