Scarborough area toxin.

[cobgoblin]

If any of you live in the Scarborough / Whitby area don't take your dogs to the beach. 150 dogs are ill with vomiting and diarrhoea after walking on the beach in the area and no one has discovered the cause.

 

[Hepsibah]

Yes, I have a friend whose two dogs are sick after being walked on Saltburn beach.

 

[MereChristmas]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-59949893

 

[Boulty]

Would be cautious but correlation does not always equal causation. I work at a practice in West Yorkshire nowhere near a beach & we've seen a sharp rise in the number of vomiting / diahorrea cases in the last few weeks some quite severe & none of them had been anywhere near the coast. There is definitely something nasty going around that is likely to be spread anywhere where a lot of dogs tend to be so probably sensible for owners to limit their dogs contact with other dogs that they don't know in general & maybe to avoid dog parks etc. (There was something even worse going around just before COVID but all the lockdowns reducing mixing between dogs as well as people seemed to kill it off)

Of course if they DO find a specific toxin or contaminant on the East coast beaches then I'll stand corrected.

 

[Parrotperson]

Mine had vomiting and diarrhoea after going to the beach in Northumberland.

but as boulty says it could be he caught something from the dogs he was playing with. He’s proper poorly bless him. Not nice at all.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

The vomiting and diarrhoea bug is being reported round here too in the Midlands. Said to be of 24 to 48 hrs duration.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Mine was in the vet overnight on a drip with really bad V&D back in October but it cleared up as quickly as it appeared. The vets were not able to find anything and there were a few dogs in with the same thing and she was really down for a day or so. My other two were fine (they have no shared bowls/toys/bedding etc) and I Zoflora'd the place like nobody's business.

I am nowhere near that area.