A warning to pet owners: toxic algae kills three dogs in matter of hours

[mia]

https://www.wect.com/2019/08/09/warning-pet-owners-toxic-algae-kills-three-dogs-matter-hours/?fbclid=IwAR2ZHd7j4qJHblr1QY0GnQfYt-T5R_mZ-hOUvXdmbS1DT2C8mMX92bzyLOo

“Our dogs were everything," said Melissa Martin and Denise Mintz. "We had two Westies, they were both therapy certified. And then we had Harpo — he was going to be seven this year. He did a lot of stuff in the community. I mean we just took them here last night and let them play and it ended up in all three of them dying because of something called blue green algae that we’ve never even heard of.”

After playing in the water in a Pond off of Independence Boulevard, the dogs were at home when one of the Westies started acting strange. Martin assumed she had been bitten by something and brought her to the Animal Emergency and Trauma Hospital of Wilmington. Soon after, the other two dogs were there as well. Seizing and showing signs of liver failure....

At 12:08 AM, our dogs crossed the rainbow bridge together. They contracted blue green algae poisoning and there was nothing they could do. We are gutted. I wish I could do today over. I would give anything to have one more day with them. Harpo and I had work to do, but now we will carry on in his memory and we will make sure every standing body of water has a warning sign....

We are now on a mission to put signs at every body of water that can have this deadly bacteria. If you’d like to be part of our initiative: https://www.facebook.com/1371655799/posts/10219956373964324?s=1371655799&sfns=mo

[Mendocino]

1. Cyanotoxins

In 2014 Toledo was affected by blue-green algae in Lake Erie. 500,000 lost potable water for several days. Boiling does not help.