Couple starts campaign after losing dog to mushroom toxicity
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Mobile veterinarian Dr. Abbas Fotovati said the best way to protect pets is to get rid of all mushrooms in the backyard because it can be hard to tell which one is poisonous.
Cynthia McLeod was still getting flowers Saturday days after losing a member of her family.
She says Sunday afternoon the dog was outside in the neighbour’s backyard in Hudson, west of Montreal, playing as usual. This time he was foraging for mushrooms, she recalls, and she tried to call him off but had no reason to be suspicious.
“I mean, there are mushrooms in people’s backyards, so you don’t know,” she said.
Sometime later the dog started to throw up which, according to her, wasn’t unusual since he liked foraging. Overnight, the dog was fine but by the next day he was more lethargic and by noon, she said, seemed almost intoxicated. The dog had trouble with one leg and could barely walk.
McLeod and her husband Chris Feghali rushed Cody to an emergency vet and by Tuesday, they were called back. The dog’s liver and other organs began to fail, McLeod said.
“He didn’t look great and as soon as he saw us, he let go,” she said, fighting back tears. “He passed away.”
The couple said they had never heard about dogs or any pet dying of mushroom poisoning.
Mobile veterinarian Dr. Abbas Fotovati said he hasn’t seen many poisoning cases in Quebec since there aren’t very mushrooms in this province, compared with other places, because of the weather.
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