Officials investigate why 11 horses suddenly died

AP ^ | 10/5

[Cvengr]

Dr. Watson: Simply Brilliant, Holmes,....but do tell ,..... exactly how DID you know the horses were playing?....

[DouglasKC]

[Palladin]

Threat matrix.

Just by coincidence, I suppose-- a relative in Northern Wisconsin had two of her dogs die this past week from an unknown poison.

[Calpernia]

>>>What on earth are you two talking about? :~D

Pay no attention to the wacky soccer mom, who is up too late, behind this keyboard ;)

[Calpernia]

Good point. Thanks!

[Calpernia]

>>>I would like to know more about these 32 horses. Was she a breeder or what?

Seems she was. Here is one of her online adds.

http://www.usahorseclassifieds.com/photoad_detail.cfm?id=14280


Ann Hoppe

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[nw_arizona_granny]

Sorry, it is all my fault, I mixed up my threads.

The below is from the thread that I read minutes before this one.

"Race Horses Die Mysteriously"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1243172/posts

The stables received a new delivery of feed on Friday afternoon and the horses ate some of this on Friday night.

The first two horses became ill on Saturday morning and one of them died the same morning. Five more have died since.

Dr Norman Datnow, a local veterinarian specialising in racehorses, explained that the symptoms were similar to that of food poisoning.

"We cannot say for certain at this stage, but it seems as if the horses ingested Warfarin, a type of rat poison."

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[N. Beaujon]

Can anyone find out the brand name of the feed? I hope if they find out that this was the cause they will issue a consumer alert complete with recall, lots #'s etc.

Both cases sound like terrorism (not the Al Queda kind). The first sounds like some neighbor who was royally sick and had some vendette. The second like some disgruntled employee put the rat poison in at the plant.

My God, what a nightmare.

[Velveeta]

These incidents are quite strange.

"Warfarin" is an anticoagulant.

I had never heard, before today, that it was rat poison.

[MissTargets]

Thanks for the link. She has some beautiful paints. What a shame. How heartbreaking for her. I hope they find out, what caused this tragedy.

[Calpernia]

No problem. She comes up in quite a few searches. I saw someone wondering about what feed she used. If I see that anywhere, I'll post it.

[Calpernia]

I see feed advertisers on a few sites associated with her. I can't tell if they are her suppliers, so I don't want to post them and hurt their business.

We don't know for sure if it was the feed anyway.

[Calpernia]

Do horses ever eat the same feed as cattle?

http://www.wisconsinagconnection.com/story-national.cfm?Id=1063&yr=2004

Cattle Group Addresses Worries About Protein That BSE Cow Ate
USAgNet - 10/12/2004

Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund of the United Stockgrowers of America, Billings, Montana, reported that it has fielded numerous calls from members and media inquiring about recent news reports that indicate byproduct proteins of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy-positive cow discovered in Canada in May 2003 were rendered into livestock feed and may have been mistakenly fed to cattle.

(snip)

[Calpernia]

Posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1243734/posts

[MissTargets]

Do horses ever eat the same feed as cattle?

Yes, horses would eat cattle feed, if put in front of them. With the quality of horses, this lady owned, I doubt that she would be feeding cattle feed. I do hope we hear more, when the results of the tests are in. Keep me posted if you see anything. Thanks.