Are owners aware of the dangers of blue green algae?
There was something on the news this morning that jogged my memory. Its mainly related to standing water, so flowing streams and rivers are usually safe.
cyanobacteria poisoning,
poisoning by cyanobacteria, usually as a result of drinking contaminated water. In most cases it is a subacute condition characterized by liver damage with jaundice and sometimes bloody diarrhea and photosensitization. Drinking of heavily contaminated water may cause acute symptoms including muscle tremors, ataxia, dyspnea, cyanosis, and hyperesthesia so that a slight touch may cause convulsions and opisthotonos, which can be fatal. Also called blue-green algae poisoning.
Are owners aware of the dangers of blue green algae?
There was something on the news this morning that jogged my memory. Its mainly related to standing water, so flowing streams and rivers are usually safe.
Our Bruce is such water baby even the smallest puddle he seems to find. one of my friends had a collie die 3 years ago due to algae in the local park, pond. We have always been careful where we let him swim not easy with a cocker thats a livewire lol.
Thanks again its always good to have a reminder.
Adam,Cheryl and Bruce
oh dear, ray has just finally learned to swim and there is no keeping him out. W take him to a pond on hampstead heath in london, but only let him get into the larger one with loads of vegetation growing in. It's all green on the surface, but they are little plants which I hope are oxigenating the water, there are no algae but will def look into this better!!!!!
A friend of a friends Lab daily swam in a lake, horrible dirty one at that, he got a cancer, not sure of the exact ins and outs but the vet said that swimming in a stagnet lake was probably a cause of it
That's a good bit of info, as only a few weeks ago we took our dogs to Richmond Park where they swam in the pond. They loved it, thank god, they are ok!
my friend mentioned this morning that his dog had been unwell yesterday after eating some pond weed; high temperature, bloody diarrhea and not usual character. Is the risk there in this case do you think, and if so what should i tell my friend to do? (NB it was only weed eaten, and this was vomited by the dog shortly after)
Oh no!hmy: I'm so glad to have found this forum and thread. Our Ben has only just found his water wings and has been loving paddling in one of our local lakes.
I haven't observed any adverse effects after his paddles, but I'll most definately keep an eye out now.
I actually recently wrote a post about dogs swimming and mentioned this danger in there. It's very important to look where you let your dog swim and be aware of the dangers of bacteria. Also remember to look for any dead fish in the water and checking that there aren't any broken bottles or sharp rocks jutting out under the water for your dog to step on.
reminded me a few yrs ago friends dog became critically ill after swimming in pond on clapham common london. vet said she was lucky to pull through.
cant believe i didn't remember before so i could have warned others.
Had a problem last year with tilly who become very ill for unknown reasons to me,sickness and diarohea bless her was caused through tilly drinking from puddles in the woods,my goodness it was very worrying for us all,but the vets obviously have seen the symptons many times previously and after some injections and course of tablets she fought it off,i would never like to see that happen to anyone,so please take note from the original poster of the harm that is hiding in water.
We are often asked if tilly is a lake dog,i never let her near any lake as i am not a good swimmer and wouldnt want to take any chances with her in case of problems that could arise.
Thank you all for your response,some very good reading from you all.
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