Antifreeze kills pets
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Editor,
On March 24th I lost my beloved miniature Schnauzer to an unknown source of antifreeze.
She would have been 8 on April 16. She was such a loveable and playful dog and loved to stand on her hind legs. She had been a faithful companion through the long terminal illness of my late husband. She cannot be replaced.
Antifreeze (95 percent ethylene glycol) is sweet and quite tasty to pets. If discarded antifreeze is left lying around where a pet can get to it, they will lick it from the container, ground or wherever it was left. It takes 2 days and 2 teaspoons for a cat to die from antifreeze poisoning and 3 days and 3 tablespoons for a medium size dog to die. The death and suffering is horrible.
Please do not leave any antifreeze, brake fluid, liquid rust inhibitors, hydraulic fluids lying around opened, for ethylene glycol is found in all of these. Properly discard it.
Every year more than 10,000 dogs and cats are accidentally poisoned with automotive antifreeze.
If someone reads this and is moved to store their ethylene glycol fluids properly then Sweet Pea’s death will not be in vain.
David and Naomi Olson
Polson
