Posted on 03/02/2022 6:56:05 AM PST by SJackson
Authorities are searching for the person responsible for killing one dog and sickening three with ibuprofen-laced meat.
“A small amount of ibuprofen can be toxic, even deadly for dogs,” the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release last Friday. Authorities believe the strategically placed hot dogs, which have been found along trails near Pocatello, Idaho, are an intentional attempt to poison local pets. So far, the motive is unclear.
“It could be that somebody thought it was a prank, and it could be that it was malicious and they were trying to take pets out,” says Jared Fisher. Fisher manages public relations for the Caribou-Targhee National Forest’s Westside Ranger District, where some of the hot dogs have been found. He speculates that the perpetrator could also be frustrated about having to share recreation areas with canine trail users.
“We do have reports of [dog owners] who don’t follow the leash rules at those trailheads, and this might be retaliation of some kind. But regardless of motive, it’s a serious crime and we’re taking it very seriously,” Fisher says.
So far, no hungry or footsore hikers appear to have taken the bait, but at least three pets have been injured and one was killed after ingesting the toxic franks.
This isn’t Idaho’s first case of suspected dog poisoning. In 2016, ground meat mixed with strychnine-laced gopher bait killed a dozen working dogs in the Canyon County area. Reports of poisoned meatballs and hotdogs have also been surfaced in the Salmon Region and the Upper Sawtooth Valley in the past, as well as in eastern Washington.
However, Fisher says this is the first suspected case of intentional dog poisoning near Pocatello. Reports name four affected areas so far, including Mink Creek and Kinney Creek in the national forest, as well as Chinese Peak and Blackrock Canyon on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. The last reported hot dog sighting was about two weeks ago, says Fisher.
Since losing her dog, a Labrador named Mudge, to a poisoned frank a few months ago, one Pocatello local has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a reward fund. The goal: To entice anyone with information about the poisonings to step forward. As of publication, the campaign has raised over $8,000.
While the Sheriff’s Office says it “cannot suggest or recommend donations to any reward fund,” it does urge locals to report any suspicious activity directly to the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office, which is managing the ongoing investigation.
In the meantime, authorities recommend pet owners keep their dogs on leash on all trails where suspicious activity has been detected. And peckish hikers are advised to obey the five-second rule—at least in this case.
Debra Mark on KFI am Los Angeles radio, she does news with John & Ken, was walking her dog a few weeks ago. The dog picked up something from sidewalk, ate it, nearly died. The vet was able to save the dog, but it was very sick. They didn’t know what the dog ate. Could be something like this. Evil sick and sad. Our pets are like our children, especially when things were locked down last year, we spent a lot of time with them!
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It shouldn’t be assumed that dogs are the targets. Wild hogs are a menace, destroying farmland and other property, and landowners are desperated to decrease their numbers. I wouldn’t be surprised if these landowners are trying to kill THEM.
“So far, the motive is unclear.”
I doubt someone is trying to distribute healthy medicine to dogs. Using a lethal drug makes the motive slightly obvious.
A lot of people don’t like dogs and dog poop, and a lot of people are sick bastards.
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I hope they find the sicko and put them down.
Find this guy and put him down.
GMTA
Some people are just mean.
Some people are just mean.
Some people are just EVIL.
No! You're kidding?! /s
Lemme guess. A native Idahoin is irate at kalifornians moving in and imposing their mutts, and politics, on conservatives? No leashes. Not cleaning up their messes.
Yep. They handle their dogs the same way they conduct their politics.
Bet it is someone who frequently uses the trail, and has been bitten by a dog in the past.
They have the same effects as for humans - gut irritation and bleeding and reduction in renal function.
But a 200 mg tablet in a hot dog is way too much and can cause damage to a small dog.
How do you know it’s a guy? Lots of “Karen”s “on trail”.
There are coyotes and wolves in the backwoods of Idaho. It could be some rancher who is frustrated with the conservationists and their failure to deal with these populations.
Of maybe they don’t like stepping in dog poop on hiking trails. I don’t agree with the response but I can figure out the motivation.
Piaa poor way to handle a problem. We had wild dogs and coyotes in Western Michigan when I was a lad. My grandfather said we could kill them but if we only wounded them it was us who went to the wood shed. No reason for a pest to suffer no matter how destructive they are.
There are people (maybe some on here) who have killed and will kill someone in a flash over a dog. The very fact that people will come together over someone killing dogs (which IS very wrong), but will NOT for ranting madmen and women taking over this nation and implementing Satan's will with the advocacy for abortion, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigrants being given priority over our citizens, and teachers in schools encouraging children to be transgender astounds me.
It is not the outrage over the killing of the dogs that upsets me at all, but the magnitude of the reaction to same when we have FAR worse problems occurring in this nation and way too few people react. THAT is the problem.
Now this is a hunt for which I’d either pay a premium, or gladly do gratis, just for the satisfaction.
Just don’t ask me what happened.
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