A professor at Penn State says the blooms of blue-green algae can be traced to warmer temperatures that help incubate the bacteria. Dogs can then ingest the algae while drinking or lick it off themselves after swimming. (hereandnow)
Melissa Martin's three dogs — Abby, Izzy and Harpo — all died earlier this month from toxic blue-green algae. Pictured are West Highland white terriers Abby and Izzy.
Harpo splashed around in the water for about five minutes, while Abby and Izzy played at the water’s edge.“The water was crystal clear,” Martin says. “A lot of the things that you read say that cyanobacteria or blue-green algae has an appearance or an odor and it had neither.” The veterinarian took a look at Abby, asked about the pond, and told Martin to get her two other dogs into the vet hospital immediately.“I ran Izzy in and I handed her to the vet tech and Denise came in with Harpo and he appeared to be fine but as soon as he got to me, he started seizing,” Martin says. “It was awful.”
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