Two of my neighbors dogs poisoned?

Question

With rat posioning. They both had to be put down, there livers were already shutting down. Someone must be spreading it around what do I look for. I only take my puppy out on her lead now i don't leave her alone but she's always sniffing an licking stuff. Shes a 5 month old beagle. I don't even know what rat posioning looks like.

Answer 1

I've had my dog poisoned two years ago and feared it happened again this morning. My adjoining neighbor uses various types of rat poison spread all over his property to kill everything that ventures there. He denies it, but I have seen it, even picked up handfuls of it so I could research its identity and properties. His favorite is an attractive green gumball that comes in apple, fish, chocolate, and peanut butter flavors. It doesn't dissolve in rain, melt in sun, deteriorate easily, or mold. The squirrels and rodents carry it around to other yards. There are many symptoms of rat poison, but what I watch for is green feces (from eating the green variety of poison), pale skin and gums, red specks on the skin, blood-shot eyes, coughing, and any bleeding. When I suspect my dog has ingested poison, like this morning when I discovered he'd escaped his pen and probably been in the neighbor's yard which is not fully fenced, I go straight to the emergency vet. This time is was $300, which is ruinous on my scant income, but it's what has to be done. The vet runs blood tests, administers prescription Vitamin K therapy, and then there are follow up tests. That's if you get there quickly enough before there's any serious damage. The symptoms can take many days to become noticeable, but disaster has already started by that time. Rat poison is a horrible way to die, but, obviously our laws and neighbors think it's useful.

Answer 2

Well, were the cases accidental or does it seem like it was an intentional attack?

The problem with rat posion is that while it may go on as looking powdery, as soon as it gets damp it just seeps into whatever it was applied to and if thats the ground or around someones property it's probably hard to see. But there are different kinds. Some are solid... Some come in a liquid, too.

It was likely spread around someone's garbage, so make sure that your puppy has no access to discarded food scraps. This might be a good time in her life to start training her not to eat any food she finds on the ground.

Answer 3

I am sorry that ,that happened . once in my mom's neighborhood they had some freak running around dumping bags of dog food soaked with anti freeze over people's fences . Well eventually the guy got caught ,but not before taking a beating from the neighborhood . My mom used to have this big biker like guy that lived beside her and he caught the guy and called all the neighbors over for a look and then they called the police . so you see you may have a freak running around your neighbor hood please be carefull and if you see something strange call the police it could be something or it could be nothing better safe than sorry . good luck to you and god bless you and happy holidays.

Answer 4

are you sure it was rat poison? the reason im asking is because anti freeze is a real killer for a dog,its liquid and they like the taste,but when they lick it they will die.it sounds more reasonable than someone just being mean enough to poison the dogs...Since people are pitting anti freeze in their car this time of year it just seems more reasonable.

Answer 5

Get a pattern of the beef and do not enable your canines outdoors unsupervised (that's an excellent rule of thumb in spite of the associates once you've a sick canines. it ought to devour some thing it shouldn't no matter if there have been no conspiracy antagonistic to you). besides, get a pattern and talk to the police with your suspicions. Ask them to run the beef. If there is a few thing to be stricken about, they're going to inspect extra, If not, basically ask all of your associates now to not feed your canines.

Answer 6

my dog ate a piece of the rat poison but he didn't die.. he got really sick but he eventually got okay.. well the one he ate looked green.. it's like a little green block.. just watch what your dog is doing.. and don't let her go into corners or something.. because that's where people usually leave that stuff.. let her out in the open space..

if you go to this site.. it shows diff. types of rat poison so you can be more aware of what to watch out for..

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/rat_mice_poison.htm

Answer 7

dont let your dog out of you yard, or out of your sight!! it sounds like you have a dog hater in your hood be verry carfull untill he get cought, walk your yard evey day look of any out of the ordeney, food laying around , water, powery things. Why do you live? do you have a manafation plant, or a larg empy store near by?? dogs may be playing in these ares and picking up the poisen there but more then likely its a man, probly who complains about dogs barking, if you have some one like this in your hood hes your man!!! If the police do get him make shore you though the book at him!!

Answer 8

My neighbors deliberatly bait traps with cat and dog food because they are sick people. Poison bait is illegal in my area, so no one's been poisoned. Have you called the Humane society? They often have reasources such as pamphlets to make people in the neighborhood aware of the problem.

Answer 9

rat poison looks like blue/green blocks at least the ones I've seen. there might be a different kind