After dropping her 2-year-old Golden Retriever, Luna, a Wisconsin woman named Samantha Carress was devastated. The fact that Luna’s death was preventable hit the owner hard, and he does everything to remind other pet owners about a hidden “dog killer” in their homes.
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Luna, like any other dog, plays around the house and nibbles on anything she considers edible. He ate the entire package of lemon-flavored chewing gum without realizing that the tasty treats were artificially flavored. Xylitola deadly poison for dogs.
Xylitol can also be labeled as wood sugar, birch sugarand birch bark extract. And sadly, it has made its way into more sugar-free human products such as chewing gum, baked goods, peanut butter, drink powder, candy, pudding, ketchup, barbecue sauce, and pancake syrup.
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Samantha and her husband panic when Luna’s liver fails and she goes down. There is only a remote possibility of saving the dog in a $20,000 operation. However, due to their lack of financial resources, the family had no choice but to abandon their beloved puppy in such a painful way.
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Samantha is used to it now reading content labels for Xylitol and will no longer buy such items to protect his other dog from harm. Authorities claim that the number of people poisoned by Xylitol has increased more than 3000% in less than 10 years, so it is even more important that pet owners check their home cabinets and keep Xylitol containing away from their dogs and other pets .
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