“From 4 pm to 8 pm our babies suffered a terrible death, the recording of it was too unbearable to watch,” wrote Jo-Ellen. When the Hannaways arrived home, the bodies of their five dogs were strewn over the lawn and floating dead in the swimming pool. CCTV camera footage revealed that he tore open the packet and between the five dogs, they ate the content. While their owners were out, their four-month-old Alsatian puppy’s sharp nose led him to the closed packet of the snail poison. They cannot recover by taking in moisture after this process has taken place.” In other words, when they eat the pellets the snails die a very unpleasant death.Īs can anything else that eats it… which is what happened to Jo-Ellen’s five dogs. Cell membranes are damaged and mucus cells are irreversibly destroyed, resulting in the desiccation and death of snails and slugs. According to the company that makes the product, it's active ingredient is metaldehyde, “which causes snails and slugs to produce excess mucus…which depletes their energy reserves and weakens them. The product in question consists of those colourful (usually blue) pellets that people throw around plants to kill snails. Never again did I think of it,” she wrote. “Our gardener at the time put it under the braai with our pool chemicals. Jo-Ellen related how she saw some snail and slug poison at a hardware store two years ago and since she had some snail problems in her garden bought two packets. Last week Medipet (a medical insurance company for pets) shared a heart-breaking post by a woman called Jo-Ellen Hannaway.
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