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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Ovacik Discussion Forum => Topic started by: ovaciksarah on August 23, 2009, 17:08:02 PM
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My friend and I were walking our 4 dogs this morning from Ovacik on the top track to the Babedag road and saw sheep entrails, dogs put on lead but further on hidden in grass was more, 2 of them managed to eat a bit. 10 minutes later they were staggering and foaming. Managed to get the car and Sercan the vet was fantastic, but my friends retriever was dead on arrival and mine is in a bad state.
Zabita was rung and went up to collect parts to be analised. This is happening far too often, and the wild boar are blamed as they need to be culled, but not this way. The animals die in agony and are terrified. Please be careful and always walk your dogs on the lead even in the mountains. Have written a very strong email to Kerametin to do something and if other people could do the same it would be wonderful
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That is awful, I hope your dog makes a full recovery.
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many thanks, at moment she,s crying all the time and seems to be hallucinating but it,s probably all the drugs, you just feel so useless seeing her suffering
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I hope your dog makes a quick and full recovery. This type of event is happening too frequently in the Ovacik area.
We are lucky to have a vet as good as Sercan in Ovacik.
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Hi im sorry to hear about what has happend im comeing to ovacik to live with my wife and 2 dogs every time i come on the forum somebody has had there dogs murdered i think i better buy a couple of good muzzles i hope your dog gets better take care
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Originally posted by ovaciksarah
My friend and I were walking our 4 dogs this morning from Ovacik on the top track to the Babedag road and saw sheep entrails, dogs put on lead but further on hidden in grass was more, 2 of them managed to eat a bit. 10 minutes later they were staggering and foaming. Managed to get the car and Sercan the vet was fantastic, but my friends retriever was dead on arrival and mine is in a bad state.
Zabita was rung and went up to collect parts to be analised. This is happening far too often, and the wild boar are blamed as they need to be culled, but not this way. The animals die in agony and are terrified. Please be careful and always walk your dogs on the lead even in the mountains. Have written a very strong email to Kerametin to do something and if other people could do the same it would be wonderful
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I am so sorry to hear about your dogs. Thank you for putting this on the forum as I also walk my dogs in the hills in order to avoid getting in peoples way. I think the people who own goats up there may not want us to walk our dogs in the area even though we keep them on a lead and do not bother the goats.What is being used as a poison I wonder?
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So sorry to hear about your poor dogs I do hope they are ok.
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Terrible. My best wishes to you.
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So sorry to hear what has happened Sarah - Iread your post yesterday and after talkimng with some friends of mine at Artemisia, I now know it was Jackie and Adrian's dog that died. So sorry for you both it must have been a horrendous experience. I can't imagine how I would have felt if it had been me and JD. Thanks for bringing it to everyones attention. I would also like to reiterate what a brilliant and caring vet Serkan is.
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Sarah I saw your email to the Mayor and I totally support everything you said.It is my understanding from a residents association meeting that the Mayor attended that the use of poison was forbidden and certainly where it is laid should be clearly marked.
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As you said in your email unless something is done to either educate the farmers or prosecute them this problem will continue.
If it was put down to cull wild boar it is also wrong. The boar should be culled in a responsible fashion and not left to take poison and die in agony.
One of the problems I find with the Zabita is that you will never find out what the final outcome was and what action they have taken.
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Thanks for all yhour kind words, shown Jackie as well, thanks to Sercan, Aysa will recover, it,s just such a shame the same can,t be said of Rain, who died a terrible, painful death he was only 2 and a wonderful dog
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So sorry to read your news you must both be exteemly upset.
I read on Fethiye Times on line, of a help line number, Alo 179, for problems that goes to the Govenor of Mugla and it has English speaking staff.Below is a link to the item.
http://www.fethiyetimes.com/news/44-news/2377-alo-179-comes-up-trumps-for-dalaman-lady.html
Appears to work so if enough of you report the problems you should get a result.
Good luck and I hope your dog makes a full recovery.
Fi
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Sarah, You met my husband Wayne at the vets the other night, Im so sorry to hear about this again and I totally understand the grief your friend is going through with the loss of her dog.
We have lived here for eighteen months and earlier this year we lost our Irish red setter, since then my hudband has buried a further three of our dogs.
We have been lucky enough to have also saved a further two more with the great help of Serkan, we actually now have doses of drugs to administer in the case that Serkan may not be there, as you are well aware time is critical.
I would and have many friends who will come along with you to see the mayor.
As you are well aware the death is terrible and I would like to draw it to everyones attention that if you yourself or your children absorb some of this toxin it can also kill.
I have also been warned that the people doing this who are heartless and cowards if they touch bread,vegetables or fruit without washing their hands this poison will remain on these items.
Really hope Sarah, your dogs recovery will be ok it took our Doberman at least two weeks to lift his head and eat with all the drugs he had pumped into him.
Please let us know when the meeting is.
Heatherjane
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Do you know whether it's Strychnine that's the poison being used ?
( By the way, you can edit your posts by just clicking on the little icon showing the clipboard and pencil. Then nobody will be any the wiser about your mistakes ;) and you won't have to post an apology. :D)
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I agree with the post by Firo that ringing the 179 number may be a good way of voicing our concerns about the poison which is being left around.
It must be a really toxic chemical to work so fast. I thought that the wild boar were culled by marksmen with rifles during the shooting season.
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Originally posted by Daffodil
I thought that the wild boar were culled by marksmen with rifles during the shooting season.
There very few marksmen or hunters around here. Most of the shooting you hear is just the local idiots. They'll shoot at anything that moves including protected birds of prey, tortoises, porcupines, dogs, cats and you, if you happen to get in their way. Very few of them would be able to hit a boar, because they move too fast.
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Many thanks for the information Firo, have rung 179 and they were really helpful, justneed a letter with all the information in Turkish faxed to them as they said it is totally illegal to put any poison down and they will bypass Kerametin, having told them he has not replied to my email and will get to the bottom of it, so anyone else who has had their dogs poisoned should also ring 179 to complain. They spoke perfect english. Many thanks to everyone for your kind words and thoughts, Aysa has recovered completely already, real tough Turkish hound
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heatherjane so sorry to hear the pets you have lost in such a short space of time, its so sad and as said a horrific death when poisoned. Sarah, hope your pet is getting better and better each day. What a shock for your friend to lose such a young dog. Pets are like family and have a great impact on us all that lose them, thoughts with all of you x.