Dogs sick in Nunhead cemetery

[ydrmdy]

Does anyone know anything about dogs getting sick in Nunhead cemetery.? Someone told me that the grass has been sprayed with something and dogs are getting sick.

[Penguin68]

It is unlikely that it is something sprayed on the grass (I'm not sure what you'd spray at this time of year - weed killers and fertilizers tend to be spring dressings) - it is possible that some form of fungus may have sprouted in the grass (which is an autumn thing) , which the dogs are eating and which upsets them, or possibly the keepers have put down rat poison, although I think they tend to use baited traps. Or that dogs have eaten some food left behind by visitors which has turned, although dogs have pretty robust systems.

It is also possible that a dog or dogs have fallen ill and the cemetery has been blamed wrongly - we have had 'scares' like this before where no proximate cause to public land has been actually proved.

[KidKruger]

Perhaps safer to keep dogs on lead when there so owner has more control over what dogs can access ?

[ydrmdy]

Penguin68, i think you could be right, why would there be chemicals.? Thanks for your input.