Golden Retriever dies after eating 'toxic waste' dumped behind Scots church
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots family have been left devastated after their Golden Retriever died hours after eating toxic waste dumped behind a church in Glasgow.
Four year old Oakley was out with his dog walker near Bargeddie Parish Church in the east end of the city when he ate the poisonous waste last Monday.His panicked owner Jane Rainey, 33, received a text from the dog walker to say her beloved pooch had been rushed to the vet after he ate something from the side of a path and began vomiting.Oakley initially seemed okay and was given an anti-sickness jab and medication and sent home.
But the next day the dog's organs began to shut down and he died hours later.Mum-of three Jane, who works as a teacher, claimed the vet said she had 'never seen a case like it'.She said: "He was at the vets within an hour of him eating the substance - but the following day he was struggling to walk, looked shaky and fragile and he was just lying down in the garden and couldn't get up."We took him back to the vet but when we arrived she looked at me and said 'We'll do everything we can but he might not make it'.
I just crumbled."The vet told Jane and her partner John Cox that Oakley was suffering from severe poisoning and his liver was failing so he would have to be kept in.
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