
Jarvis and Harvey enjoying a spot of 'courting' with Staffy Sky during the winter snow!
It was reported by BBC News last week that a dog had died, and others had fallen ill, whilst walking in the Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park area’s.
The King Charles Spaniel owned by a Lincoln man had died a couple of day’s after visiting the Nottinghamshire beauty spot.
He had taken his 2 dog’s along with his daughter’s to Clumber Park on the Saturday.
On the Monday morning all three dog’s had collapsed and were almost comatose, the King Charles Spaniel died the following morning!
Directly, we took our pet Cocker Spaniel , Jarvis, to Bawtry Forest last weekend along with a friend and her Cocker, Harvey.
Both had a great time having a run around in the forest and were fine on the Sunday.
However, on Monday morning Jarvis woke early and was vilontley sick a number of times, he deteriated very quickly and within a few hours and was rushed to the vets where he spent 24 hours on a iv drip.
I wouldn’t have thought too much about this until later on on Monday Harvey also went down with the same symptoms, Saturday morning was the only time they had been together that weekend!
The vet suggested that their had been a spate of dog’s admitted to them with gastroenteritis type problems.
Could our dog’s have suffered with the same illness that the Clumber dog’s had?
The BBC story went on to say that a Nottinghamshire vet had warned pet owners to be vigilant after treating a number of animals for severe sickness and diarrhoea, she said the same thing had happened for about a month last year
“It starts in September, there is more humidity and less daylight and a change in the flora and fauna. I think it could be a mushroom or fungus causing the illness,”
Pesticides and other man-made chemicals have been ruled out .
Leaflets and posters were given out in Clumber last weekend asking dog owners to keep their pets on a lead.
Both our dog’s are on the mend now and will be looking forward to their weekend walk……………. away from the forest!
Check out the links from the various news outlets that have reported the story.
BBC Nottingham
Daily Telegraph
BBC Nottingham Q&A
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