FERTILIZER ALERT!!!!



With summer fast approaching in most areas...finally... many are 

going to plan on working in their yards and that often means using 

various froms of fertilizers on lawns and gardens

.

This alert is on the heels of a phone I received about a 

healthy/active 2 1/2 OES that died last night 12 hours after her 

owners used ‘steer manure’ on their lawns.



At 6 pm the family finished fertilizing their lawns with a low-

cost bag of steer-manure purchased from Home Depot (an all around 

general store/warehouse chain). They then left for a pleasant 

dinner out.  When they returned at 7pm they found their beloved 

pet, staggering and drooling (classic poisoning symptoms).  The 

dog was rushed to the Veterinarian's office where she died at 3 am 

the following morning.  The stomach contents included some of the 

steer-manure.  The Veterinarian indicated that the toxic level of 

the dog at the time of death was 177 and normal is is in the range 

of 0-98.



This steer-manure has no warning label on it indicating toxicity 

due to the ammonia nitrate content... however there apparently is 

a statement on the bag indicating that the company manufactoring 

it assumes NO PRODUCT LIABILTY.



PLEASE FOLKS be alerted to this fact and be ever so on guard to 

ANY commercial products you use in and around your home . . . DO 

NOT assume that because there is NO WARNING LABEL that the product 

would be safe for/around our beloved Rottweilers.



It has been an unproven theory of mine for some time that a lot of   

these very same products are often the cause of setting off some 

of the immune-defiency disorders that we are all too often seeing   

in our Rottweiler breed, along with stress and other factors such 

as over vaccinating as well.   I know of too many Rott N Kids that 

developed vitiligo, foot fungi, etc after gardening activities 

that included using fertilizers, both steer-manure and chemical.



Don't forget about other summer dangers that may lurk...treated  

'deck' wood used in patios, snail/slug baits, paint...etc.