Dogs owners, particularly in the southern U.S., are being warned to keep their animals away from ponds and lakes where blooms of blue-green algae could be deadly to their fury loved ones.
Melissa Martin and Denise Mintz said their four dogs — Abby, Harpo and Izzy — died within hours of frolicking in a pond Wilmington, North Carolina.In a heartbreaking Facebook post, Martin wrote that"our dogs crossed the rainbow bridge together. They contracted blue green algae poisoning and there was nothing they could do. We are gutted."
pet owner Clare Saccardi said she recently lost her 4-year-old Golden Retriever, Harper, after a visit to Red Bud Isle on Thursday. Within about an hour and a half of leaving, Saccardi says Harper began showing symptoms. The city of Austin released a warning flyer asking people not to swim in, drink from or expose their animals to Lady Bird Lake after tests showed a presence of the algae, which can produce a neurotoxin.
Dr. Summer Heyerly, a veterinarian at the Bayview Animal Clinic in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, told NBC News that blue-green algae toxins thrive off sunlight and have been blooming due to the higher temperatures around the country.
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