Dogs tend to eat just about anything left at ground level but Coquitlam RCMP are asking pet owners to not let their pooches eat meat they find outside.
Earlier this month, police responded to a report that a family pet had become sick after eating a cooked chicken on Sept. 30 on the baseball field behind Hazel Trembath elementary school in Port Coquitlam. Shortly after eating the chicken, the dog became sick and was vomiting all evening.
Investigators believe a similar fate befell another dog two months earlier.
"We have no evidence to say it was poison or to link the two incidents together," said Cpl. Jamie Chung in a release. "We checked the area in question and didn't find any more cooked meat or suspicious items lying around."
They're urging owners to take their pets to a veterinarian if they think their pets have eaten meat of unknown origin because it may be too late by the time symptoms start showing.
[Earlier this month, The Tri-City News published a letter to the editor from PoCo resident Barrie Abbott ("Easy access to food increases humans and animal conflicts," Oct. 8) about cooked meat being left in the area and asking the person responsible to stop leaving out the food for fear of attracting wild animals.]
