In 2019, did veterinarians really warn about KO drops in puddles of water?
In 2019 we kept getting requests for a status post on Facebook. This is about the fact that two dogs have allegedly already died because they drank from a puddle of water that was allegedly contaminated with so-called KO drops. We ourselves saw the status post on Facebook a few times and couldn't find anything on the internet about this topic other than the said status post on Facebook.
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Veterinarian Sebastian Großmann has now published a statement on this topic on Facebook. He says that it is impossible to poison a puddle of water with KO drops because it would require a very large amount of this “poison”.
It's this status post on Facebook:
The status post as wording:
Appropriate due to the weather. Veterinarians warn about KO drops in puddles of water. This seems to be the latest negative trend in poison bait. Two dogs have already been affected and died. So don't let people drink from the puddles.
What does the veterinarian Sebastian Goßmann from the veterinary practice Dr. Elke Jonigkeit about that?
The following content was posted on the Facebook page about this topic! At this point a big THANK YOU for mentioning Mimikama.
Now that I have been asked several times about the veracity of this article, which has unfortunately already been widely distributed on the Internet, I would like to destroy this HOAX before it spreads too much panic.
It's bad enough that there are actually knockout drops in drinks or food...
But any clear-thinking person can roughly estimate how much of these drugs would be needed to 'poison' a puddle (!!!) in sufficient quantities.
Nobody needs to book poison bait training sessions (again urgently) because supposedly half the world wants to kill dogs...
Puddles of water can certainly harbor dangers such as leptospirosis, botulism or similar germs, but this is a different topic and has nothing to do with supposed knockouts -Drop to do.
Especially in the case of inaccurate information without a specific source such as location, author, etc. and, as here, the general statement “veterinarians warn…” the truthfulness should always be doubted. Even if there is only one source on Google about this, you can still be skeptical!
If in doubt, simply write to mimikama (an association that relies on donations) - they investigate such reports and check them in order to warn publicly and widely about such false reports...
Veterinarian Sebastian Goßmann (from Engelskirchen near Cologne)
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