Posted on 11/30/2005 10:47:40 AM PST by Jimbaugh
Barking Dog Poisoned by Smugglers
Boulevard, CA -
Barking dogs are a common sound in rural areas. They mostly bark at other animals. However, in places near the US/Mexico border, they bark at the passing groups of people who enter the country illegally on foot. These barking dogs are sometimes the first clue the US Border Patrol has that a group has crossed the border. Numerous citizen's reports are made every week based on these highly aware, loyal pets. Because of this, some professional smugglers have injured and even killed alert dogs to prevent them from sounding the alarm.
Such a case may have happened recently in Boulevard, a small community in San Diego's east county. Just before dark on Veterans Day, Jeff McKernin went out to feed his dogs as he does every night. He saw right away that something was wrong. His small terrier mixed dog was not its usual active self. "She was moving slowly and having trouble walking, as if intoxicated." Jeff told me in an interview this week. After making a few phone calls Jeff and his wife took the sick dog to the Animal Medical Center in El Cajon. After an examination by the veterinarian on duty, Dr. Walker, it was determined that the dog may have been poisoned. The dog was treated for poisoning from ingestion of antifreeze, an automotive product used as a coolant in radiators.
Regular antifreeze is mostly comprised of ethylene glycol, which is extremely toxic if consumed by humans or animals. According to the Columbia Animal Hospital's website ( www.cah.com) more than 10,000 animals fall victim to antifreeze poisoning every year. It only takes two ounces to cause a fatality in a medium sized dog. Once ingested, the ethylene glycol moves into the kidneys. The kidneys are not able to process this compound and it remains there in a crystalline form where it causes kidney failure and death. Dogs that are kept in close proximity to cars with leaking radiators are at high risk of antifreeze poisoning. A quick look around the McKernin's home and yard turned up no evidence of spilled fluids or leaking vehicles.
I found several piles of discarded clothing, water bottles, and assorted trash within 100 feet of their fenced yard. There is even a well used foot trail running along the outside of one of their fences. The McKernins have already spent over $900.00 on veterinary bills for their dog. A supervisory agent with the US Border Patrol recently told the McKernins that other dogs in the community had been poisoned, stabbed, and slashed with razors. I spoke with another agent several months ago about this subject. He stated that he had found a discarded sports drink bottle that contained antifreeze, which has a distinctive odor.
He said that smugglers will sometimes make incursions prior to bringing a group to checking and clearing the trails of hazards, like barking dogs. I will continue to report on these stories as they arise.
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And Jorge wants to give visas to these guys.
Just killing the pets that Americans won't kill.
Children next, Jorge?
I didn't think I could get angrier at the illegal alien problem.
I was wrong.
How can this be? I thought the people coming over were all goodhearted, hardworking, devout Catholics with family values, people we should welcome with open arms??? I guess they just torture and kill the poor animals Americans won't.
Anti freeze poisoning is a horrible way for a beloved pet to die...
I suggest a flock of geese. They'll raise quite a ruckus if anything comes near.
A case can be made for allowing all those mean Pit Bulls waiting to be put down to run loose at the border. Put up a set of long "dog runs" and let them have at it.
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Or geese WITH swans--they're both vicious, territorial, and can weigh 30-50 pounds. They grab with a serrated beak and beat with the muscled edge of a wing. They do not let go, and they can make a lot of noise...
Sickening dregs of society who are the president's best friends because they work so hard. Because, according to him, we are all so lazy, he will reward them with amnesty thinly disguised as "guest worker programs."
I suggest the owner pay them back with a little poisoning of his own...lead poisoning from a 3006.
I am horrified at what happened. However it does give me an idea. It would be smart to place geese at the border- the make great watch animals and it would be way harder to get rid of a whole flock of geese.
I also think the local humane society should warn all pet owners of the possibility of their pets getting killed by these asswipes.
Nah. Noisy, so it warns the others that there's a nearby hostile, allowing them to scurry away like cockroaches.
However, salting the areas of a few of the border crossing area water tanks with empty anti-freeze jugs would be an inexpensive way of sending a message tothose providing aid and comfort to the invaders and to the coyotes shepherdiong them across.
And if that doesn't work? No jury that I'm on is going to convict that pet owner for a little payback if he retaliates in kind. After all, turn about is fair play.
I doubt the President actually likes these people. He and particularly his elite buddies just like the easily exploited cheap labor. They live in their gated communities and don't actually have to tolerate these good-hearted folks poisoning their pets and raping their children like the rest of us. The President's occasional attempts at Hispandering are just a smokescreen for his true objective which is an unlimited supply of ignorant, middle class subsidized, serf labor.
"In August 2001, Don Honnas and his wife, Carolyn, sold out after almost 41 years, in part due to illegals and drug smugglers.As they reached their late 60s, the Honnases tired of sleeping with pistols under their pillows, suffering through 25 break-ins at ranch buildings, listening to their dogs bark all night and seeing two of their dogs poisoned. One of their biggest worries, remarkably, was the liability they might incur if one of their dogs bit an illegal, and the illegal sued." link
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