Hillsborough: Six dogs dealt with after consuming harmful products in park

Six dogs, 3 of them part of a search and rescue group, needed to have emergency situation veterinary care after consuming products harmful to dogs in a forest park.

The dogs – 3 rescue dogs and 3 family animals – were being strolled in Hillsborough Forest Park on Friday.

Ryan Gray, of K9 Search and Rescue, said stacks of chocolate, almonds and grapes had actually been excluded in the forest.

“When we’re talking stacks, you’d fill binliners [with the amount],” he said.

“Pretty much things that are exceptionally harmful to the dogs.”

He said 2 of the dogs had actually taken in enough of the products to have actually killed them.

He said the fast responses of the 2 handlers with them had actually saved them as they were hurried to the nearby veterinarian.

The 2 which consumed one of the most needed to be caused to throw up.

“I believe they’ll be launched tonight and after that it’ll be a case that they’ll need to go back for tests to inspect their liver function,” he said.

“But truly it was just the responses of the handlers seeing them and what they had actually consumed and getting them to a veterinarian’s in Hillsborough, it was actually the closest veterinarian they might get to.”

Mr Gray said he might not state whether the products had actually been left on function for dogs, however it was fretting,

“Even if they didn’t understand, if we’re edging on the scale of providing the advantage of the doubt and you believe they’d leave the grapes and the almonds out for the birds, you would not leave bars of chocolate out for the birds,” he said.

“It was various stacks of things all over and concealed under things also.”

K9 Search and Rescue, which is based in north Down, has actually been associated with lots of look for missing out on individuals in Northern Ireland and has actually likewise helped in the Republic of Ireland.