Bin trashing and mouldy food beware.

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  1. Maggie68

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    Hi everyone. I recently came across a post on facebook, about the death of a dog from eating mouldy food, that it had got from the recycling, I think it was the mould on bread. Otis is a terrible bin trasher given half the chance, so I will be extra careful with him from now on. It was a very tragic case, despite attempts by a vet to save the dog, it died. I will try and find the post , and do a link to it on here. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend, I have had some nice walks with Otis around the fields by my parents home, lovely sunny day yesterday in west sussex .
     
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    Thanks Mags and Tatze x
     
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    We have a real problem round here with morons putting food out for birds in parks. Its usually mouldy bread and biscuits cake and other stuff which is totally nasty. One collie died and a young dog was really ill. 6 crows also died after eatting some. It's a real big problem for us and on some parks I don't even let my dogs off lead due to the worry of what the will find
     
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    It's so hard yet so important to teach a solid "don't touch/drop it".

    Today I was out on the beach walking with someone and their dog and she zipped off. About 50 feet away and we see her snoot around in the sand and come up with something that looked like a long string hanging out of her mouth. Everyone was horrified as so many dogs here get hurt by picking up fishing line and swallowing the hooks due to the fisherman leaving them with tasty bits of bait left on them.

    Her owner ran screaming towards her (not the most effective, but I understood the panic) and ripped it out of her mouth. Which I really thought was the worst possible thing he could do if there was a hook in there. :( Turns out it was just seaweed and completely harmless, but it brought home to me again - like your story about the bread - how really important that "don't touch/drop it" command is. Along with a solid recall and stay, probably the three commands most likely to save your dog's life.
     
  6. Jes72

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    I can only reiterate how important this is, I've had to use it in emergencies a few times, thankfully nothing obviously dangerous but rather yucky that I'd rather not deal with like dead birds or fish, once a drowned puppy washed up on the river bank.
     
  7. JenBainbridge

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    Stanley got a dead bird today. I have never said "leave it" so firmly to him.

    But he did and he got pretty much half of the treats in the bag :D
     
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