Dogs being poisoned in Doonside

[Solarion]

Someone is poisoning all our dogs. 12 dogs so far with 9 deaths.

SEVEN dogs have been poisoned in Doonside in a week between Sunday, 1 February and Tuesday, 10 February.

“Four of the dogs have died, one has survived, a sixth one is fighting for its life and another was rushed to the vet on Wednesday, 11 February,” said Stacey Quaroni whose two neighbours’ pets have fallen victim to the poisoner.

“The poisoner is throwing bits of food laced with what seems to look like poppy seed in it. The black man casually strolls past and throws the contaminated food over the wall and continues on his way. He has been seen twice by people in the area, unfortunately the dogs ate the food before the owners could get to them.”

One woman lost two of her pets and out of fear, has sent a third pet away for safekeeping.

Dogs have been targeted in Middleton Road, High Level, Umsind and at the corner of Highway and Adelaide Roads. It is believed the poisoner uses the Doonside pedestrian bridge to make his escape.
A woman whose one dog was poisoned, rushed a second dog to the vet on Wednesday, 11 February. The dog had picked up a long marrow bone which contained what looked like rat poison pellets (pink in colour) and brown pellets inserted in the marrow of the bone.

“The dogs suffer horribly, they convulse and bleed out.”
According to Stacey, the CCPO and police are aware of the incidents. If anyone witnesses any suspicious-looking man lurking in the area, they are urged to contact the police on 031-913-1300 or CCPO on 083-393-5066.

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THE poisoning of dogs has become a serious issue in Doonside over the past weeks. So far 12 known cases of dog poisoning have been reported and of these, nine dogs have died.

If you suspect your dog has been poisoned, keep any suspicious looking food for testing as evidence.

At this stage attempts will be made to have an autopsy done on one of the animals to determine what poison was used.

In desperation an emergency meeting was scheduled for Sunday and the Doonside Crime Watch was established.

The group will link up with the Community Crime Policing Forum (CCPO) and veterinarians in the area.

Ronel Fuhry, whose dog was poisoned, says her dog vomited up pieces of a leg bone and inside the marrow was a reddish pellet, like rat poison and brown pellets that looked like rabbit food.

Typical symptoms in animals that have been poisoned include vomiting (yellowish water), diarrhoea, crying, shaking, seizures and haemorrhaging.

In many cases vets originally thought it to be Parvo virus, “a viral disease, manifested by diarrhoea, often bloody vomiting and loss of appetite, depression, fever and sometimes death”. The difference is that seizures are not a symptom of Parvo.

Marklen Matthew’s Labrador puppy, Lady, was poisoned last Wednesday but survived.

“Lady had spasms and then she collapsed. I tried water and eventually force-fed her with milk. I can only guess that I caught it early and that the milk neutralised the poison,” he says.

Matthew became aware that several dogs had died in the area and got in contact with Doonside resident Stacey Quarony to spread the word on social media. On Friday afternoon, while the Fever interviewed her, her Basset puppy suddenly became ill. The puppy had the typical swollen and hard stomach, signs of poisoning, and Quarony rushed him to the vet, Dr Van Heerden’s rooms.

Despite being treated for poisoning and kept on a drip for most of the day, he died on Saturday.

The community is concerned that the poisonings might be part of an organised crime syndicate, plotting to commit other crimes such as housebreaking.

Everyone is urged to be on the lookout and report unusual incidents to the Amanzimtoti SPCA on 0319042424/5 and speak to Michelle Hannan.

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[Ancalagon]

They should find who is doing it and literally feed them to hungry dogs. Those SPCA dogs need a good meal.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

The poppy-seed type pellets are aldi-carb or two-step (named after the fact that your pet will not take more than two steps before it dies). Good luck with the SAPS or SPCA - they have been completely useless in our area when reporting two-step poisoning. I have some more details on my blog. I am surprised that no-one has done an autopsy with toxicology report (will set you back about 2K).

If it turns out to be aldi-carb, you can lay the following charges (insist on those, as cops will try and convince you to file for "malicious damage of property" which goes nowhere):

1. Contravention of Section 2(1)(n), alternatively Section 2(1)(d) of the Animal Protection Act, Act 71 of 1962, as amended: Administer poisonous substance to animal, AND
2. Contravention of the Fertilisers, Farm Feeds, Agriculture Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, Act 36 of 1947, as amended: Possession of an illegal substance (Aldicarb / Two-Step), AND
3. Hazardous Substances Act, Act 15 of 1973, as amended: Possession of an illegal substance

 

[ellyally]

Shoot the ****er on sight

 

[Kayoss]

The poppy-seed type pellets are aldi-carb or two-step (named after the fact that your pet will not take more than two steps before it dies). Good luck with the SAPS or SPCA - they have been completely useless in our area when reporting two-step poisoning. I have some more details on my blog. I am surprised that no-one has done an autopsy with toxicology report (will set you back about 2K).

If it turns out to be aldi-carb, you can lay the following charges (insist on those, as cops will try and convince you to file for "malicious damage of property" which goes nowhere):

1. Contravention of Section 2(1)(n), alternatively Section 2(1)(d) of the Animal Protection Act, Act 71 of 1962, as amended: Administer poisonous substance to animal, AND
2. Contravention of the Fertilisers, Farm Feeds, Agriculture Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, Act 36 of 1947, as amended: Possession of an illegal substance (Aldicarb / Two-Step), AND
3. Hazardous Substances Act, Act 15 of 1973, as amended: Possession of an illegal substance

My two labs were poisoned with aldicarb a few years back (one died, the other survived) after they prevented some guys from breaking into my home. I went to the police regarding the matter, and they completely laughed it off (literally). Even after I had explained that people were obviously trying to gain access to my property (by killing my dogs), they couldn't believe that I was wasting their time over a matter relating to my pets.

They pretty much told me that, unless there's an actual break-in, there's nothing they could do. If I'm honest, approaching them was rather insulting. To be fair though, I didn't really expect much more from them in any case...

 

[Slaught3r]

So if someone has seen him do this, why is he still using up our oxygen?

 

[Compton_effect]

Honestly? if I ever catch anyone attempting this - I'll have to rush him to the hospital after he swallowed the evidence.
Btw - a vet once told me the antidote to Aldicarb is a controlled substance, because it can be used as a date rape drug.

 

[Ninja'd]

The black man casually strolls past

The black man Not a black man but the black man.

 

[Albereth]

Honestly? if I ever catch anyone attempting this - I'll have to rush him to the hospital after he swallowed the evidence.
Btw - a vet once told me the antidote to Aldicarb is a controlled substance, because it can be used as a date rape drug.

You'd rush him to hospital? I'd be taking the longer, more scenic route, (to avoid traffic of course).

To OP - you don't have an Amanda van Deventer James living in your area do you?

 

[Solarion]

You'd rush him to hospital? I'd be taking the longer, more scenic route, (to avoid traffic of course).

To OP - you don't have an Amanda van Deventer James living in your area do you?

Hmm could have, it's a small place this so probably know her by seeing her around. I know only one Amanda but she is 8 years old.

 

[Albereth]

The poppy-seed type pellets are aldi-carb or two-step (named after the fact that your pet will not take more than two steps before it dies). Good luck with the SAPS or SPCA - they have been completely useless in our area when reporting two-step poisoning. I have some more details on my blog. I am surprised that no-one has done an autopsy with toxicology report (will set you back about 2K).

If it turns out to be aldi-carb, you can lay the following charges (insist on those, as cops will try and convince you to file for "malicious damage of property" which goes nowhere):

1. Contravention of Section 2(1)(n), alternatively Section 2(1)(d) of the Animal Protection Act, Act 71 of 1962, as amended: Administer poisonous substance to animal, AND
2. Contravention of the Fertilisers, Farm Feeds, Agriculture Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, Act 36 of 1947, as amended: Possession of an illegal substance (Aldicarb / Two-Step), AND
3. Hazardous Substances Act, Act 15 of 1973, as amended: Possession of an illegal substance

If you ever have a hassle with the plods refusing to open cases insist on an OB reference (occurrence book). You can then take it up with the station commander and use the OB reference as proof that you tried to lay charges. And if you get no joy there you can take it further up the chain. Plods don't like evidence that they're incompetent and it isn't their choice as to whether charges can or should be laid.

And if you're wasting their time, well they have a remedy in law anyway.

 

[Solarion]

The South Coast has a lot of dogs, I mean a LOT. Every house has at least 1. Toti alone has a population of about 13000, so that's like 13 000 dogs. Whoever this fker is he can't possibly hope to kill them all.

People here love their animals like their own kids. Can't wait till they catch this guy and see what they do to him.

 

[Alan]

Shoot the ****er on sight

But his rights. He's a victim too!

 

[supersunbird]

They must prepare for a crime spree cause what other reason would the guy do this?

 

[The_Assimilator]

They must prepare for a crime spree cause what other reason would the guy do this?

Maybe he just got tired of dogs that bark at every hour of the day and night.

 

[Glock26]

If dogs are poisoned, there WILL BE break-in's shortly thereafter, sometimes up to a week after. There is little doubt, be prepared for it.
If you ever catch someone poisoning dogs, please make him eat it. Please.

G26

 

[bokdrol]

This is horrible

 

[bokdrol]

Maybe he just got tired of dogs that bark at every hour of the day and night.

There are other ways of addressing this without being a sadistic douche

 

[ellyally]

There are other ways of addressing this without being a sadistic douche

Sadly, I know someone who's dogs were being poisoned by a neighbour. It was in a townhouse complex, guy was poisoning all the dogs in the houses around him. They eventually got him on cctv, but sadly, one of the neighbours confronted him before cops arrived, and by the time they got there he had vanished(renting so he just bailed). Some sick bastards out there. I for one am glad when dogs bark down the street, I know someones on the road walking up etc, even if I don't see whats going on, they barking for a reason(even if its just a cat, but at 3am, I'd rather be woken by them barking over a cat than being woken by a gun in my ear). Dogs don't randomly bark for no reason.

 

[Wyzak]

If you ever have a hassle with the plods refusing to open cases insist on an OB reference (occurrence book). You can then take it up with the station commander and use the OB reference as proof that you tried to lay charges. And if you get no joy there you can take it further up the chain. Plods don't like evidence that they're incompetent and it isn't their choice as to whether charges can or should be laid.

And if you're wasting their time, well they have a remedy in law anyway.

The station commander is generally the problem. If he was worth anything the station would be running in a better condition. A fish rots from the head down.

I took a picture of a station's vehicle parked on a disabled parking and illegally ferrying passengers around to the Lyttelton station commander and he shrugged it off and said I should take it up with a station North of Pretoria whose supposedly now using that vehicle. Just shows their don't care attitude.

This piece of trash needs to be put down, slowly.