Dog owners beware, poison found in English Garden - Munich

I noticed a high police profile patroling the English Garden today when I took my usual run. Yesterday already I saw little notes posted all over reporting that "little packets with a blue powder" have been found lying about on the way to the Aumeister Biergarten. Today I saw a note by the Bayrische Schlösserverwaltung warning all dog owners to take their dogs only on a short leash currently. Somebody has put poisoned bait all over the English Garden and the dogs ate it and died. You can imagine what a horrible way that is to kill an animal! So please, take care of your animals when taking them for a walk in the English Garden. The Munich Police have already posted a warning on their webpage, although they talk of only four dead dogs up to now and the Schlösser Verwaltung meantioned five. Whatever. Take care!

How horrid! People suck.

While distributing poison is of course an unjustifiable criminal activity, this will force dog owners to put their pooches on a leash - such law was introduced recently that they had to do it, but it seemed to be ignored entirely.

oh yeah this was on the radio last night. Poor mutts

Whats your problem with dogs being allowed to run free and exercise?

The only thing dog owners should be forced to do is to clean up the dog crap after them.

Hope they catch the sick fcuker soon.

the English Gardens are big enough to have areas where dogs are allowed to run free and have fun (and shit where they like) and those where they are not (ie the areas where people commonly sunbathe or play sports.

Murdering pets like that is sick. I hope they find the person and put a stop to it.

maybe they attack the swans? (no idea to be honest). The dogs could access the poison even when on a lead I would have thought. Whatever the reason, its pretty sick

Agreed, theres no sport in poison at all. Slingshot, bow and arrow, spear or net on the other hand, thats much more of a level playing field.

That's horrible and it makes me very sad and angry, especially as it will go on and on as no one knows how many packets were hidden. Does anyone know if the poison was meant for dogs or birds (mad twisted reaction to bird flu) - not that it matters.

It will indeed probably not only effect pets, but also the wild life there. Simply very bad.

The police report says that dogs ate food that was covered with a blue powder, probably a rat poison or fertilizer. The report does not say that the dogs are dead though.

This is one of the reasons why it's a good idea to train your dog not to eat stuff they find lying around.

the radio report last night said some dogs had died. Not that that is 100% reliable of course

It's definitely cruel to poison animals like this. However, I think dog owners ought to take care of their dogs. I was sitting on the ground & reading today, and a dog while chasing another just ran into me! Another time, a dog which had just taken a dip in the river splashed itself all over a woman nearby. That's simply disgusting!

@Yeti

The paper posted all over in the Northern part of the English Garden, which had been put up by the Schlösser Verwaltung, says that five animals have actually died. Unfortunately they do not have the warning up on their homepage, but one can contact them for information on the link that I posted earlier. I didn't want to rip off the warning, scan it in and post it here.

According to the police the four dogs they mentioned are alive at this time.

They reckon the powder could be either rat poison or fertiliser but won't have analysis results back for about two weeks.