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    You Just Can't Be Too Careful - Rat Poison - NOT Oban

    News here is all about dogs getting sick in a town to the south and suspicious food and treats left in a park, maybe it's even a dog park.

    And just now a friend posts that his Lab is recovering after 24 hours at the Vet after eating a block of rat poison. The rat poison was in the snowmobile groomer quonset this friend spends a lot of his time at. I walk Oban there, down the snomo trails. Oban is off leash there. The poison was inside but sometimes I let Oban go in the building to say hello, a couple of the groomer volunteer guys like dogs.

    My friend says his dog is going to be fine and poison has been removed from the building but what a scare. BAd people, innocent but unknowing people, natural dangers, a breed that eats practically anything, sometimes you wonder if they should ever be allowed off leash.
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    That's awful.

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    Im really glad his dog is going to be okay rat poison is terrible I have heard horror stories

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    What a scare! So glad to hear the dog is going to be OK. And, thank you for putting "NOT Oban" in the title. Almost had a heart attack.
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    I'm glad the dog is doing okay, and even on-leash there are no guarantees. I can't count the number of times I've been walking the dogs in the neighborhood (on leash) and Sass has managed to find and eat something without my knowing what it was - I'm only alerted by the sight of her chewing and she's usually swallowed it by the time I can get her mouth open. Sure, if I see it first I can tell her to leave it but she is very sharp-eyed, has the advantage of using her nose and is a sneaky little bugger so she finds stuff before I do most times. Thankfully so far nothing has harmed her, but I do worry. The other two seem to be either more discriminating or more likely lazier about searching out illicit snacks.
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    That's scary and is always in back of my mind. I remember one of our old members (randomgemini) dog Mugen died after he ate a rat/mouse that died after it ate rat poising a neighbor put out to control the rats/mice without thought to the latter.
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    Scary. Glad the dog it going to be ok.

    It's one of the things I worry about most with my two. Brooks has a good leave it, Sophie, not so much. The problem is when you DON'T see them snarf something.

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    Wow, that really sucks. Glad the dog will be ok.

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    Annette47 is right, on leash is no guarantee. Some of the dogs in the south town were on leash.

    I'm on a birding forum and every now and then there is news of an owl or hawk eating a rat or mouse that had been poisoned, and then the bird died too.
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