"Hua Kul" wrote in message
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"James Curts" wrote in message
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I live in the Portland Oregon area...

Apparently Portlanders (Portlandites?) take their government
regulations quite seriously.

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"The owners of some of the 16 or more dogs believed to have been
poisoned at Southeast Portland's Laurelhurst Park between July 3 and
July 9 think the poisoning is related to the city's controversy over
off-leash dogs.
And Sgt. Brian Schmautz, spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau,
says they may be right.
"Obviously, we won't know until we have a suspect and know what his
motive was," Schmautz said Wednesday. "But we've been hearing
anecdotally that many of these (affected) dogs were possibly off-leash
and that the substance may have been left in places, like bushes,
designed to target off-leash dogs."
Veterinarians who treated some of the dogs suspect that they were
poisoned with meat laced with the highly toxic herbicide paraquat.
Results of tests done on several of the eight dogs that have died so
far were not available at press time.
Paraquat, which is used for weed control, can be legally purchased
and sold in Oregon only by people or businesses with special licenses
from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=19225

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It may not have been paraquat at all. Perhaps the dogs just stumbled
upon some unwashed organic produce. ~8^)

--Hua Kul

Grin.........

I suppose since we don't have unpasteurized milk readily available in our
parks................

Of interest washing organic foods, which I highly recommend, did not
remove the chemicals which tests indicated they contained. Many of these
chemicals, just as in the instances of dirt grown vegetables, were within
the plant structure and could not be washed off. The only solutions are to
remove the items from the store shelves, which one major local grocery chain
did, or to advertise the product so strongly and favorably that customers
consumed the evidence.

James Curts