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"In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill. This may indicate that the possible disease is not so contagious fr
by lvl4x 7y ago
"In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill. This may indicate that the possible disease is not so contagious from dog to dog. For the time being, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority's advice on restricting close contact between dogs remains valid."
I'm looking forward to seeing what caused this. Really strange (In my non-expert mind) that it hasn't made its way to Sweden.
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoObviously an old person sick of dogs. Probably mixed up pigeon shit into bacon grease and left it out.
- taneq 7y agoSounds like a genetically-determined allergy (like chocolate or I think onions)? Edit: Wow, HN really dislikes the suggestion that something could be genetic.
- partialrecall 7y agoI thought chocolate was toxic to all dogs.
- outworlder 7y agoIt is toxic to all dogs.
- pvaldes 7y agoTo be fair, chocolate is not what it was. Many cheap substitutes on the market
- bayesian_horse 7y agoStill toxic.
- neverdepp 7y agoNever give chocolate to dogs! That's poisonous. Or to rabbits. Don't let them eat cake either. Don't be murderously disservant. It's torture for animals to be served with things that fastly kill them. All of those things do.
- pvaldes 7y agoProbably not. Chocolate would cause seizures and cardiac symptoms, vomit and tremors, but not massive gut tissue destruction. And I don't remember any parasite doing this. Clostridum will cause diarrhea, not bleeding. Is probably a poison, but not chocolate (And I'm including radiation under the "poison label" also. There aren't many things that can wipe the intestinal flora from an animal and replacing it by species that create ultra-resistent spores). Other option would be food contaminated by spores of Clostridum, pesticides or whatever, but I guess that would be easy to spot the coincidence of a particular brand and batch of dog food in all affected animals.
- tom_mellior 7y ago> Really strange (In my non-expert mind) that it hasn't made its way to Sweden. Elsethread people are speculating that it might be due to contaminated food. Sweden is in the EU, Norway isn't, and AFAIK the EU doesn't like importing meat and other agricultural products.
- vintermann 7y agoNorway likes it even less. One of the arguments for staying out of EU was food safety. Not sure about pet food, though.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoWhile Norway is importing most of its import food from the EU I highly doubt they have much better standards... And because of certain treaties with the EU they essentially accept most EU regulation in any case.
- drakonka 7y agoThere is a brand of Norwegian raw dog and cat food that is imported into Sweden. I'm a little bit paranoid about this outbreak even though I have cats and not dogs, so I'm holding off on purchasing it until the cause has been established and food ruled out.
- pvaldes 7y agoIs interesting that cats don't have it. Points to something that is not present in the outdoors and environment. Cat food have also a lot of salmon and other fish.
- outworlder 7y ago> Is interesting that cats don't have it. Points to something that is not present in the outdoors and environment. Cat food have also a lot of salmon and other fish. If this is an infection, we can draw no such conclusions. If it is food, it still doesn't help much – perhaps excluding some food components.
- giarc 7y agoI wonder if it could be contaminated food/treats similar to the duck treats from China a few years ago. https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-investigates-animal-illnesses-linked-jerky-pet-treats https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-invest...
- pvaldes 7y ago> This may indicate that the possible disease is not so contagious from dog to dog = Is in the digestive, but not in the saliva
- bayesian_horse 7y agoFeces are actually a perfectly workable way of pathogen transmission in dogs...