Dogsey

Parks staff are stepping up patrols after concerns that dogs have suffered poisoning after being walked in parks in Brighton and Hove.

Vale Park in Portslade. Image by Paul Gillet taken from www.geograph.org.uk
Vale Park in Portslade. Image by Paul Gillet taken from www.geograph.org.uk
Sussex Police issued an appeal for information and the RSPCA issued advice to dog owners and anyone using substances that could poison people’s pets.

Among the parks where dog owners have reported concerns are Preston Park, Hove Rec, Vale Park, in Portslade, and Greenleas, in Hangleton.

At a meeting in Hove Park yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 7 April) organised by a worried member of the public, dog owners said that they believed that four dogs had died as a result of poisoning in the past four weeks.