Don’t Let Your Dogs Near Water With Algae! It May Kill Them!
August 14, 2019 10:01AM CDT
We’ve seen this blue-green algae in the past, and it’s back again this summer.
Illinois EPA investigating for fatal algae blooms after recent reports of dogs dying after swimming.https://t.co/Ri30I9iuIr
— AnnieI (@1bigwidesky) August 13, 2019
It typically grows in shallow, stagnant fresh water, and if it starts to grow rapidly, or “bloom”, it could be mildly dangerous to humans and could kill dogs.
This summer the algae was found in a lake in Lake in the Hills. A pond in a dog park in St. Charles was infested with it two years ago.
It is very real!
Here’s ALLLLLL the information you could possibly want from the Illinois EPA!
