cut Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 It is becoming apparent that peoples dogs may be getting sick from eating snow. The snow that has come from the road with the chemical that they use to "pretreat" before a snow storm. Has anyone else had this experience? We know of 2 families who had their dogs go from healthy 2 weeks ago to either dead or with spontaneous seizures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
listarz Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Oh, that is awful! I haven't heard of this but I will sure pass the word around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowlover11 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 My dog ate snow off the road, and throw everything up but that was about a week or 14 days ago and he seems fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannabehippie Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I think that they just use a brine solution to pre-treat the roads AFAIK. It is becoming apparent that peoples dogs may be getting sick from eating snow. The snow that has come from the road with the chemical that they use to "pretreat" before a snow storm. Has anyone else had this experience? We know of 2 families who had their dogs go from healthy 2 weeks ago to either dead or with spontaneous seizures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwx21 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I've thought about this before. My dog eats a lot of snow in the back yard, but he seems to have the sense to not eat the snow on the sides of roads when I'm out walking him. I always keep a close eye on him to make sure he doesn't try it, but he never does. Once we get back to the back yard, he starts eating the snow again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpickett Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Maybe its a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rygar Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 maybe it is snowcrash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkrangers Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 There is plenty of oil and hydraulic fluids in snow that has been plowed from leaky vehicles and what not. Something to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cut Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 There is plenty of oil and hydraulic fluids in snow that has been plowed from leaky vehicles and what not. Something to consider. That is what my thought was. Kind of scary to think of what the melt water will do to the streams/rivers/lakes etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 A neighbor's dog across the street from my parent's house in North Flushing, died last week suddenly. It was a healthy dog. The doctors dont know why the dog suddenly passed but eating snow or dirty salt is an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cut Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 A neighbor's dog across the street from my parent's house in North Flushing, died last week suddenly. It was a healthy dog. The doctors dont know why the dog suddenly passed but eating snow or dirty salt is an option. X 2 for my friends, healthy dogs in the prime of life. Went from healthy to dead in hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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