FIVE DOGS POISONED
VALUABLE ALSATIANS LOST [BY TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] NEW PLYMOUTH. Monday Five dogs, two of them prize Alsatians valued at £7O, were poisoned in New Plymouth at the week-end. The two Alsatians were out for an unusually long run in the grounds surrounding their owner's house on Saturday evening before being locked up for the night, and must have eaten poison then.
The grounds concerned are surrounded by a high wall so it is possible that the poisoned meat was thrown into the garden from the roadside. A veterinarian stated that the dogs had had strychnine.
Suspicion was aroused when the owner found that his experience was not unusual in the neighbourhood, and that two men living a few houses away had each lost a dog, one a Sydney Silkie, and the other a cocker spaniel, while another man in a near by street had lost a wire-haired terrier. Some time ago another resident in the vicinity found pieces of raw meat in his garden and a dead rat beside them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22833, 14 September 1937, Page 8
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