Ant spray not good for dogs

Submitted By: Donvon97130@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
This tragedy happened to us a couple of years ago, and it occurs to me I should pass it along.
We were renting a house while we built our own. We suddenly had sugar ants. We called a local exterminator. He assured us that this was not harmful to pets. When he came to spray we took Sailor our golden friend of 14 years and put him in a back bedroom away from the spraying. He was healthy in every respect. A couple of days later suddenly Sailor was unable to stand up. I could pick him up but his legs just didn’t work. He could go number 1 just by letting it go on the floor. He was unable to go number 2.
After two weeks we had him put down.
I don’t have any scientific evidence that the ant spray was to blame. We made every effort to keep him away from it, but we don’t know that when we left him alone he wasn’t going around and licking the toekicks that had been sprayed.
I will let you form your own opinions.
I think this is something that is flying under the wire, and maybe nobody is putting 2 and 2 together.
I hope this helps somebody else avoid this tragedy