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Sick bastards poisoning dogs.

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By KSFY Staff

Story Created: Apr 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM CDT

Nine dogs affected and as many as four dead after a case of strychnine poisoning northwest of Tea.

The reports started coming in to a Tea veterinarian sunday afternoon.

A jerky-like substance that was apparently laced with the chemical was found in the area of the sick dogs.

A lab at SDSU confirmed the dogs are victims of strychnine poisoning.

Now that local vet worries it may not be over.

"It's a chemical that interferes with the nervous system and causes dogs to go into very intense seizures...muscles firing continuously," says veterinarian Doctor Spoo.

He also says the early symptoms of the poisoning included stiff hind ends of the dogs.

But those early symptoms quickly turned worse.

"The early signs were vague, looked stiff and sore and then progressed to pretty violent seizures."

Desire Janses owns one of the dogs affected.

When Onyx lost control of her hind legs and fell face first down the stairs, Desire and her husband knew something was wrong.

"It was one continual seizure. It was terrible," says Desire.

Onyx was the third dog brought to Doctor Spoo.

A shot of Valium helped Onyx relax and she remained sedated overnight waiting for the effects of the strychnine to wear off.

The Jansens are thankful Onyx bounced back.

Four other dogs didn't.

"It didn't end that day. We still have fear it could happen again."

And Doctor Spoo shares that same fear.

He's worried some of the contaminated jerky may still be out there for other dogs and children to come in contact with.

He warns dog owners northwest of Tea to continue keeping an eye out for any of that possibly remaining bait.
 
If the dogs are problem dogs they need to poison the owners, not the dogs!!!!
 
dear **** sucker who ever tries to hurt my dog i love it more then most ppl and wouldnt have a problem ****ing you up severly......i dont know anyone could do that to a dog its ****ing ridiculous
 
Playing Devils' advocate here. You love your dog so much then keep it either chained up or fenced in at your own property. Not everyone loves your dog. I think dogs and cats both are great companions but you as owners need to take responsibility for your own animals. Maybe the owners of the dogs need to take the blame themselves, Obviously in Tea there must be a problem of dogs running loose all over town otherwise how would 13 dogs get poisened? I am sure the person or persons that did it did not go onto other peoples properties all over town and poison dogs. More than likely they put the bait out on their own property. Remember if you love your pet, be responsible with your pet.
 
skidoorulz said:
Playing Devils' advocate here. You love your dog so much then keep it either chained up or fenced in at your own property. Not everyone loves your dog. I think dogs and cats both are great companions but you as owners need to take responsibility for your own animals. Maybe the owners of the dogs need to take the blame themselves, Obviously in Tea there must be a problem of dogs running loose all over town otherwise how would 13 dogs get poisened? I am sure the person or persons that did it did not go onto other peoples properties all over town and poison dogs. More than likely they put the bait out on their own property. Remember if you love your pet, be responsible with your pet.
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The story isn't written very well, I live in SW Sioux Falls which is appox 2-3 miles from Tea. From what I have been hearing, they believe these dogs are being poisend on their owners property or possibly on public property. I have a co-worker who is a Tea resident, he had a message on his answering machine from the sheriffs office stating that if he had pets or small children to visually check his property for any suspecious items. 13 dogs sounds like A LOT of dogs to be on one persons property. All I know is if i caught someone doing this on my property they wouldnt be doing much of anything for the rest of their life, except eating from a straw and blowing in a tube to manuver their wheelchair. Its been about a month now since this story and no news has come up...person responsable prob felt the heat and backed off.
 
zach477 said:
The story isn't written very well, I live in SW Sioux Falls which is appox 2-3 miles from Tea. From what I have been hearing, they believe these dogs are being poisend on their owners property or possibly on public property. I have a co-worker who is a Tea resident, he had a message on his answering machine from the sheriffs office stating that if he had pets or small children to visually check his property for any suspecious items. 13 dogs sounds like A LOT of dogs to be on one persons property. All I know is if i caught someone doing this on my property they wouldnt be doing much of anything for the rest of their life, except eating from a straw and blowing in a tube to manuver their wheelchair. Its been about a month now since this story and no news has come up...person responsable prob felt the heat and backed off.
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If someone was doing this on other peoples property all over town then yes they should get what they have coming to them. But 13 dogs on one persons property is not hard for me to phathom. I live in an area where everyone around me has at least 3 dogs and some of them have 5 or six and it seems like as soon as the sun goes down they open all the gate(if their yard is even fenced) and let them run all night long. So 13 dogs running and crapping on somone elses property is not beyond beleif.
 
skidoorulz said:
Playing Devils' advocate here. You love your kids so much then keep them either chained up or fenced in at your own property. Not everyone loves your kid. I think kids are great companions but you as parents need to take responsibility for your own kids. Maybe the parents of the kids need to take the blame themselves, Obviously in Tea there must be a problem of kids running loose all over town otherwise how would 13 kids get poisened? I am sure the person or persons that did it did not go onto other peoples properties all over town and poison children. More than likely they put the bait out on their own property. Remember if you love your kid, be responsible with your kid.
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I dunno, seems a bit radical to me.
 
It only seems stupid because you are too stupid to understand your narrow minded point of view.

I'll explain it for you Einstien.

If you had said about someone's children, what you had said about these pets, many would have labled you a sicko.

What you are missing is that many people are as attached to their pets as others are to their children.
 
Mafesto said:
It only seems stupid because you are too stupid to understand your narrow minded point of view.

I'll explain it for you Einstien.

If you had said about someone's children, what you had said about these pets, many would have labled you a sicko.

What you are missing is that many people are as attached to their pets as others are to their children.
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Not sure he's the narrow minded one. pretty pathetic response, but what would expect from someone that views animals as equals.
 
In all honesty, there is no doubt in my mind that I love our dog as much as most people love their children.

If you want to think less of me for that, then so be it.
But make no mistake, people like me will go to the same extremes as any other parent to protect our "children".
 
Mafesto said:
It only seems stupid because you are too stupid to understand your narrow minded point of view.

I'll explain it for you Einstien.

If you had said about someone's children, what you had said about these pets, many would have labled you a sicko.

What you are missing is that many people are as attached to their pets as others are to their children.
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Let me explain it to you, Stupid! Since you like name calling so much. Animals of any kind are not children. I have heard of humping the dog which you are probably prettyy good at but you or no other human can father or give birth to an animal. To me there is something wrong with someone who thinks their pet, of any kind is a child! Seems to me that they probably have a pretty unfulfilled life. I have had my share of pets in my life loved them all but never felt that they were my children. Do you think your children are your pets? Do you let your children run all over town and crap in other peoples yards? As I said in my other posts if the dogs were poisened while out running around on someone else's property, then good for the guy who did it, it is his property and he has every right in the world to take care of animal problems if the owners of those animals will not. What would you say if a stockman shot 13 dogs on his property because they were killing sheep or calves? No differance. Now with that said, if it was random poisoning and the person or persons were going around town throwing meatballs onto other peoples property then heck yea throw the book at them. There is no justification for that behavior. Now in my opinion and I am sure many others that is not a narrow minded opinion because I see it both ways, where as you can only see it one way. So who is narrow minded????????????
 
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