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I second all of that. I carry a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a turkey baster in my glove box now. On the side of the bottle I have written the dose to give the dog, which is based on weight. Once you shoot it down their throat it takes about 15 minutes for them to vomit. My dog got Salmon Poisoning on the Nestucca about 3 months ago after she got into a long dead Salmon. It took her six days to start to get sick and it was certainly expensive. I grew up in Northern California and my dad lived on a river that had a ton of dead salmon each year. He also had dogs and none of them ever got sick. It wasn't till moving to the NW that I really heard of it. Glad your pup is ok.Here in the Pacific NW, salmon poisoning for dogs is a big problem. My dog is one of those animals that eats everything, and I know that if she came across a salmon carcass on a riverbank she would try and eat it unless I grabbed her in time. This is why I keep her at home when I go fishing in the fall.
They suggest that if you're going to be in an area where spawned out dead salmon will be on the riverbanks, bring a large syringe (no needle) and some hydrogen peroxide. If your dog gets into some toxic salmon, squirt the peroxide down its throat right away to induce vomiting. Otherwise you will have a very sick dog and a very hefty vet bill on your hands later.
Another myth is that once a dog gets salmon poisoning, it won't ever get it again. This may be true in SOME cases, but do you really want to risk your dog's health again?
I'm glad that your dog will be making a full recovery! That is good news. Welcome to the forum!
hes a balck lab. another reason i dont take him fishing with me is he likes to jump in after my lures when they hit the water and im realling in.
I dont feel like hooking my own dog lmao!
That made me laugh. My last dog was a Black Lab and he did the same thing. Especially when I cast bobbers out--he thought they were little balls to fetch. I tried taking him fishing once and kept yelling at him to quit trying to fetch the bobber! I ended up tying him to a tree just so I could get some fishing in, but then he just whined and barked. I finally decided that dogs and fishing don't mix very well.
My current dog hates swimming and water in general, but she loves eating, and I'm always afraid she's going to try and get into my bait or bait that other fishermen have left on the shore. So she stays home as well.
No the other one, Clatsop county.yikes! im so sorry to hear that
but were you referring to the lost lake at the base of mt hood?? is it accessible this time of year?ray:
That's really interesting. Do you know how you can tell which strain it was? My vet didn't seem to know all that much about it.Thanks everyone that welcomed me to the forum, there is a lot of great information on here. The dog is doing better he should be back to running circles around me in a few days. The vet did say there are two types of salmon poisoning and he is now immune to the strain he had, but can still get the other type. So no going back to lost lake with me.
That's really interesting. Do you know how you can tell which strain it was? My vet didn't seem to know all that much about it.
That's true that it is the parasite that makes them sick but there is some debate over whether they can get sick again. Some think that if the dog develops a fever it is then a immune but you can't develop an immunity to a parasite so I'm not sure that, that makes sense. Better safe than sorry.My dad's dog got into the same problem after some friends and I were cleaning fish at his house and had no idea that dogs could even get sick... It's pretty scary stuff, but at least the fact that it's popular makes it easy for vets to treat. What I've heard, and check for verification, is that once dogs are exposed and treated, they build an immunity to it. I believe I read it somewhere, so at least you shouldn't have to worry about it again. And it's not actually the fish that make the dogs sick, it's a parasite that lives inside the blood of the fish that does it..