« on: July 09, 2018, 04:32:12 PM »
We had a young spaniel in the surgery today which less than half an hour earlier had been romping around on a walk with his owners. Now, despite the frantic attempts of vets and nurses to save him he lay dead on the clinic table. That's how dangerous blue-green algae is.
What was unusual in this case is that the dog was poisoned by algae from a river - it's a problem usually associated with lochs where the water isn't flowing and there's a chance for it to build up. However, with rivers drying in the drought, flows are sluggish and the river-banks are getting coated in algae as the river level drops.
There's different sorts of blue-green algae - some aren't that toxic and your dog may have encountered them without any problems. Others, like this one can kill in minutes, so don't let past experience make you complacent.
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