Dog Killers

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Tough to believe people like this exist.

DOWNE TWP. — Three dogs have died after eating tainted meat left along trails in the Dividing Creek area.

The latest victim was Joan Jardel’s 5-year-old golden retriever.

On the morning of Feb. 10, Jardel said she was walking her dog, Raymond, on one of the many paths through the area at Dragston Road and James Moore Road, near where the old Tom’s Bridge Road, now closed, cuts off.

“He started to grab something and eat it and I yelled at him, but he just gulped it down. In five minutes he was convulsing and foaming at the mouth,” she said. The dog had eaten part of a raw meatball left along the path.

“He convulsed, and shook and foamed at the mouth and he couldn‘t breathe,” Jardel said.

Raymond was dead before she could get him into the car and to the animal hospital in Millville.

She said the Cumberland County SPCA and the state Division of Fish and Wildlife are trying to find out what the poison was, but so far, no luck. An analysis is possible because another citizen found an uneaten meatball, about the size of a tennis ball, which was right in the middle of a trail.

“They have ruled out strychnine and cyanide,” she said.

Jardel said one minute she was admiring how her dog, an 85-pound retriever, was having such a good time and how beautiful he was, with the sun shining on his golden coat, and the next he was dying.

The day after she lost her dog, two more dogs, a lab and a lab-chow mix, suffered a similar fate in the same area, Jardel said.

Anyone who has any information about what the poison could be or who is leaving it out for animals to consume and die such a horrible death is asked to contact the SPCA at (856) 691-1500.

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