Any dogs experiencing gastrointestinal enteritis after swampy rye walk?

[Huggers]

Our Labrador has spent the night at vets after a tsunami of vomit and tummy pain. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if it could be related to WW1 conditions on Peckham Rye, specially as dogs love to lap at those undraining puddles?

[Mystic Mog]

Blue/green algae is really dangerous to dogs.  I would think that water is pretty filthy.

 

[Azalea]

Sorry to hear this.  How unpleasant.  Did the vet say it wasn’t an isolated case?

[Penguin68]

On 14/02/2025 at 15:10, Huggers said:

and if it could be related to WW1 conditions on Peckham Rye

I recognise this is hyperbole for literary and humorous effect, but as it is now well over a 100 years since WWI, and as younger people read this who have no real idea of what conditions were like, on behalf of my late grandfather who served throughout that war (and had the three service medals starting with the Mons Star to prove it), and whose last major battle was Passchendaele (3rd Ypres)  I would remind younger readers that not just men, but horses actually drowned in the mud there, and that conditions on Peckham Rye now are absolutely nothing (give or take a little water logging) like conditions then. 

[Huggers]

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Sorry to hear this.  How unpleasant.  Did the vet say it wasn’t an isolated case?

he had to see an emergency vet out of the area but it was definitely something imbibed.

[Azalea]

4 hours ago, Huggers said:

he had to see an emergency vet out of the area but it was definitely something imbibed.

Is he ok now?

[Huggers]

On 18/02/2025 at 14:22, Azalea said:

Is he ok now?

Thanks - an overnight stay,  a drip and painkillers seems to have done its work!

[Azalea]

Saw something on social media written by someone who had to take her dog to the vet with similar symptoms. Her vet said there was something going around in the dog population.  Her dog was given two separate injections and recovered very quickly. Not in this area. 

Edited February 24, 2025 by Azalea

[first mate]

You begin to wonder what might be in those pools of water on the Rye, is it purely ground water?

I hope your dogs are okay.

[Sue]

10 hours ago, first mate said:

You begin to wonder what might be in those pools of water on the Rye, is it purely ground water?

I hope your dogs are okay.

But if there is "something going around", as Azalea says, it could be complete coincidence that a dog became ill with similar  symptoms after drinking water from a puddle on the Rye?

I know absolutely nothing about things like this, but if there could be an issue with ground water making it toxic to animals, would that not be tested for as a matter of course?

I will ask my daughter, who is a hydrogeologist!

[Huggers]

He had a bacterial gastric infection…

[beansprout]

Didn’t this happen last year as well?