A Boise dog is dead after getting into a poisonous pesticide in a West Boise neighborhood.
- A Boise dog, Bjorn, died after ingesting strychnine, a poison found in rat pesticides.
- Alicia Goff, the dog’s owner, suspects the poisoning may have been intentional. An investigation is underway by animal control, but no charges have been filed.
- Ragnar faces ongoing medical care for potential kidney and liver damage. Alicia started a GoFundMe to help cover the veterinary bills for her dogs.
(Below is the transcript from the broadcast story)
I’m your West Boise Neighborhood Reporter, Jessica Davis talking with the dogs’ owner who worries someone did this on purpose.
Alicia Goff is mourning the death of her 4-year-old pitbull mix – Bjorn.
“Mad, upset, don’t understand,” says Goff.
It all started last Tuesday, December 10th when Alicia says she let her three dogs outside around 4 a.m.
When they came back in ten minutes later something was off.
Goff says, “They did the stiff horse, started vomiting; they crapped themselves they started convulsing, they were sitting there crying and whining and just couldn’t get comfortable.”