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Tango0114 Aug 2019 10:09 p.m. PST

… Change Is Going to Make It Worse.

"A pair of tragic stories reported this past weekend are raising awareness of a threat to both people and animals in the water: algae. At least four dogs in two states along the Southeast U.S. have reportedly died from swimming in freshwater lakes and ponds filled with toxic blue-green algae. And as the climate warms, these sad cases could become more common in the U.S. and elsewhere.

In a Facebook post published early last Friday, North Carolina resident Melissa Martin said she and her friend Denise Mintz had taken their three dogs—Abby, Izzy, and Harpo— for a Thursday night swim at a local pond. But within minutes of leaving, Abby began suffering a seizure. And though all three were quickly taken to a veterinary hospital, none survived. According to her veterinarian, Martin wrote, they had died from algae poisoning…"
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Bowman15 Aug 2019 8:27 a.m. PST

Dogs are weird. They eat the feces of other species and are fine. They can drink up stagnant, black coloured water that would easily give us dysentery. You'd think a bit of algae in their water would be like vegetable soup.

Were the ponds as thickly populated with algae as the picture from China? Why would dogs swim in that? What if humans swam in this water?

Shagnasty Supporting Member of TMP15 Aug 2019 8:34 p.m. PST

Three have died in Austin of similar exposure.

Personal logo Dan Cyr Supporting Member of TMP15 Aug 2019 8:47 p.m. PST

Yes, it will sicken and kill humans.

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Gunfreak Supporting Member of TMP16 Aug 2019 1:58 a.m. PST

Humans are weird, we can eat more salt and drink more alcohol than an animal 3 or 4 times our size. But if we eat some meat that's just slightly gone bad, we'll spend the next 8 hours on the toilet or even end up in the ER.

Bowman16 Aug 2019 9:21 a.m. PST

Well, we don't roll around on top of dead and decayed animals in order to obscure our smell. I'm ok that we get sick eating food that has gone bad. A good (albeit hard) lesson for next time.

Gunfreak Supporting Member of TMP16 Aug 2019 10:44 a.m. PST

I'm just saying evolutionary it's weirder that we can consume large quantities of useless stuff(like too much salt or alcohol) than that a dog can use a food source (bad meat)
Horses are far more weird than dogs. They can literally die from eating to much of the food they've evolved to eat(grass) and are far more sensitive to stuff than dogs or even cats.

It happens from time to time, some a anti bacterial supplement they add to chicken feed contaminates other animals food. Dogs, cats and horse. Tge dogs get really sick so does that cats and they can die. But the horses die just outright. A 500kg+ animal just drops dead from the contamination.
Various other stuff can kill them quick too.
Add the fact they are stupid and overly skittish and have vulnerable legs. They are actually quite useless animals.

Bowman16 Aug 2019 2:17 p.m. PST

I'm just saying evolutionary it's weirder that we can consume large quantities of useless stuff(like too much salt or alcohol) ….

That's because eating too much salt and drinking too much alcohol has no evolutionary impact on us. By the time we die or become damaged enough from these, we have already bred. Therefore, no change in fitness.

Tango0117 Aug 2019 9:57 p.m. PST

I LOVED horses… you miss a fine animal my friend….


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